The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, has inaugurated a Ministerial Committee on herbal remedies and natural compounds towards developing a homegrown treatment for COVID-19 pandemic. The committee has eminent scientists and Fellows of the Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS) as members. Onu explained that the committee was set up to authenticate claims by researchers, scientists and traditional medicine practitioners on herbal remedies, natural compounds and non-pharmaceutical items for the treatment of the disease. He said that his ministry was making efforts toward the development of local remedy that could be deployed for the protection of Nigerians against…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed four new Permanent Secretaries into the Federal Civil Service. Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan, Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF), made this known in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja, by Mrs Olawunmi Ogunmosunle, Director Information, office of the HOCSF. Those appointed are Mr Sule James from Kaduna, Mr Abubakar Ismaila from Kebbi, Mrs Patricia Roberts from Rivers and Mr Shehu Shinkafi from Zamfara State. According to Yemi-Esan, the swearing-in and the deployment will be announced in due course.
Troops of Operation Sahel Sanity have rescued 31 kidnapped victims, arrested 29 bandits and their collaborators and eliminated one in continued offensives against bandits in the North West region. In a statement issued on Monday in Abuja, the Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brig.-Gen. Benard Onyeuko, said the troops had recorded more successes against the bandits and other criminal elements in recent time. Onyeuko also said that the troops on Aug. 30, intercepted bandits along Anka-Gummi road in Zamfara and recovered 40 rustled cow and handed them to their owners. He said that the troops foiled another cattle rustling…
The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has confirmed the killing of two of its operatives on Monday at Mararaban Udege in Nasarawa State. The spokesperson, ACM Bisi Kazeem in a statement made available to news men on Monday added that 10 others were abducted. Kazeem noted that 26 personnel were reportedly attacked while traveling from the Sokoto and Kebbi State Commands of the Corps for a training programme at FRSC Academy, Udi. “They were attacked by bandits and kidnappers at Udege junction, along Mararaban-Udege around Adoka in Nasarawa state on Monday at about 8 a.m. “The officers, totalling 26 in…
The Niger Delta Power Holding Company, NDPHC, says it plans to add 125MW of electricity to the national grid to boost power supply in the country. The Managing Director of NDPHC, Mr Chiedu Ugbo, disclosed this in Abuja on Monday, when Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State visited the company’s headquarters. Ugbo said that NDPHC in the next two or three months would bring about 125 megawatts to the national grid. “We have the Gabarain Power Plant in Bayelsa which is one of the plants in our portfolio, we are in the second phase as we just finish construction and…
The Deputy President of the Senate, Mr Ovie Omo-Agege has observed that the emergence of Professor Florence Obi, as the first female Vice Chancellor-elect of the University of Calabar, attests to the excellence of the womenfolk in higher institutions. Recall that last week, Professor Obi of the Faculty of Education, broke a 45-year old jinx by emerging the first female Vice-Chancellor-elect of the University of Calabar, Cross River State, beating 12 other candidates. She will take over from Professor Zana Akpagu, whose tenure ends on November 30, 2020. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yomi…
Some members of the National Assembly from Cross River have congratulated Prof. Florence Banku-Obi on her emergence as the first female Vice Chancellor elect of the University of Calabar. Their congratulatory letters were made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Calabar. Prof. Banku-Obi was elected as the 11th substantive VC of the University on Sept. 10 in Calabar while her appointment letter was presented to her by the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the institution Governing Council, Sen. Nkechi Nwaogu, on Sept. 11 in Calabar. The Senator representing Cross River Central Senatorial District, Prof. Sandy Onor,…
Why did I involuntarily yawn on Wednesday last week when I read stories of President Buhari inaugurating the National Steering Committee to develop a Nigeria Agenda 2050 and a Medium-Term National Development Plan, MTNDP? I am not a chronic pessimist. In fact for most of my life I was a chronic optimist until a series of dashed hopes and disappointing events and outcomes over several decades made me to reconsider my outlook in life. According to the President, the Agenda 2050 to be worked out is because two subsisting national development plans, namely Vision 20:2020 and Economic Recovery and Growth…
The Agency for Air Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar, ASECNA, has started to broadcast a SBAS (Satellite-Based Augmentation System) signal over Africa and Indian Ocean (AFI) region, providing the first SBAS open service in this part of the world via NIGCOMSAT-1R Satellite managed and operated by Nigerian Communications Satellite Ltd under Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy of Nigeria. This early open service is provided as part of the SBAS for Africa & Indian Ocean programme, which pursues the autonomous provision over the continent of SBAS services, to augment the performances of the satellite navigation constellations GPS and…
A bus conveying six passengers on Monday, rammed in a train at the PWD area of Lagos. The Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, who confirmed the incident, said the bus veered onto the rail track but that non of the passengers died. “A passenger motor GGE 972 GE with six passengers veered onto the train tracks while crossing the rail at PWD inward Oshodi and subsequently collided with a scheduled commuter train. “The bus was then dragged along for a stretch of the journey before the train managed to come to a complete halt. “The Agency…