… A rejoinder to Bishop Oyedepo, founder of Living Faith Church Kwara state was recently in the news over Hijab misconception, which nearly put Ilorin, the state capital into an unsual religious crisis. Although this is an issue I had earlier decided not to comment on, this response was prompted by an assertion made by Bishop David Oyedepo, the Founder of Living Faith Church, also known as Winners Chapel in his church. The Bishop who is also a Kwaran has asserted: “It is such a nasty development in Kwara state where Muslims are asking their students in our schools to…
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The Federal government on Wednesday in Abuja granted N10 million as seed fund to five innovators that emerged winners in the World Creativity and Innovation Day (WCID) challenge. The five startup winners emerged among over 800 entries made for the challenge and received N2 million each. The winners were Muhammed Bature for Schoola Limited, Jeremiah Kuro for Blieu-1 Automations Limited and Nwachinemere Emeka for Kitovu Technology Company with an app that allowed market access for farmers. Others are Ajiboye Mayowa, Co-founder Computer Based Test Nigeria with Education Technology app that provided easy computer based testing platform for public servants, students…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is launching a new initiative which aims to halt transmission of malaria in 25 more countries by 2025. The initiative is to be launched on World Malaria Day on April 25. Thailand, South Africa and Saudi Arabia are among the countries the WHO aimed to make malaria-free. The 25 countries would receive specialised support and technical guidance to help eradicate the disease. Countries in South-East Asia’s Greater Mekong region have already made great strides: the number of cases in the region comprised of Cambodia, China (Yunnan Province), Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam fell by 97…
Gunmen have attacked Greenfield University in Kaduna and abducted unconfirmed number of students. Confirming the attack and abduction on Wednesday, the spokesperson of Kaduna Police Command, ASP Mohammed Jalige said “the gunmen launched the attack on Greenfield University on Tuesday evening. “The attack on university, which is located on Kaduna-Abuja highway took place at about 8:35p.m on Tuesday,” he said. Jalige could not however say how many students were abducted. “The number of students kidnapped has not been ascertained,” adding that security operatives were deployed to the general area for search and rescue operation.
The Town Hall Meeting on National Security organised by the Federal government has recommended that state police should be supported by the National Assembly as well as the House of Assembly in states. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed this in Abuja at a News Agency of Nigeria flagship interview programme, NANForum. He said the meeting made the recommendation based on the consensus that state police would give governors better leverage in the handling of security issues within their domains. Mohammed said the recommendations from the town hall meeting held on April 8 in Kaduna would…
By Nefishetu Yakubu The Archbishop of Church of God Mission International, Margaret Idahosa, has donated a six classrooms block to Olinlin Primary school, Uzea in Esan North-East Council of Edo. The donation was made on Tuesday in honour of late Archbishop Benson Idahosa who was once a pupil of the school. Inaugurating the project, Idahosa said the idea of immortalising her husband came during the 50th anniversary of the church he left behind. Represented by Bishop Matthew Okpebholo, she said they thought it wise to erect a block of six classrooms in the school because her husband began his early…
The Kano state government has paid over N100 million as medical allowances for High Court Judges in the state. Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, made this known when he received members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Kano state chapter on a visit. “We also paid over N20 million as allowances for Magistrates and Sharia Court judges. “We also paid Sharia and Magistrate court judges N20 million as furniture allowance,” he said. The governor said that the state government also pays N46 million monthly as overhead cost to the judiciary. He said that the state government also spent N100 million to provide…
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) said out of 4.4 million Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines received in the country, 1,114, 408 million have been utilised, representing 55.4 per cent of targeted eligible group. The NPHCDA disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Tuesday. The Federal government has directed state governors not to exceed 50 per cent utilisation of the vaccines allocated to their states. It reports that this is to allow for a second dose to those who had taken their first doses, adding, the remaining 50 per cent would be administered 8-12 weeks from the date of…
The Nigerian Center for Disease Control, NCDC, reported zero COVID-19-related death for the ninth consecutive days as the nation’s fatality toll remains 2,061. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Tuesday. The country last registered a COVID-19-related death on April 11. It reports that aside from April 11, the number of reported deaths in week 14, which was April 6, was two from two states. Cumulatively, since the outbreak began in week 9, 2020, there have been reported 2,061 deaths with a case fatality rate (CFR) of 1.3 per cent. NCDC said it conducted 1,870,915 COVID-19 tests …
Derek Chauvin, the former U.S. police officer accused in the killing of George Floyd, has been found guilty on all three counts, Judge Peter Cahill said in Minneapolis on Tuesday. The death of Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, in 2020 triggered a wave of demonstrations against racism and police violence in the U.S. in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Chauvin was convicted of second-degree murder, which is punishable by up to 40 years in prison in the state of Minnesota, as well as third-degree murder, which carries up to 25 years, and second-degree manslaughter, which could earn him 10…