A road crash involving a truck loaded with onions occurred on Monday in Gusau, resulting in the death of four of its passengers, with others sustaining various degrees of injury. Confirming the incident, the Sector Commandant, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Zamfara Command, Mr Idris Fika, blamed the accident on the reckless driving and over-speeding by the truck driver. Fika said the truck, which was coming from Goronyo town in Sokoto State, crashed at Lalan Roundabout because the driver lost control and the vehicle somersaulted, thereby killing the four passengers instantly. Those who sustained injuries were rushed to the Federal Medical Centre Gusau…
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European Union (EU) authorities discussed several Coronavirus-related items, including an expansion of vaccine manufacturing and the detection of new strains, during Monday’s response meeting. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. “Today’s #COVID19 response meeting focused on, Further boosting research with EU funds, Ramping up sequencing to detect new variants, Working with companies to expand vaccine manufacturing at scale, Bio-defence preparedness, Supporting our partners via COVAX & donations,’’ von der Leyen tweeted. Previously, Brussels was involved in a row with UK-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca over delays in deliveries due to issues at the firm’s production site in Belgium. Sputnik
The United Kingdom is investigating around 200 academics for unwittingly passing on military technology to China, allowing it to build weapons of mass destruction. The Times reported on Monday, citing sources. The academic, working in dozens of UK universities are suspected of violating the strict 2008 Export Control Order, which was intended to stop sensitive information from winding up in the hands of foreign states, the newspaper reported. Citing government sources, The Times reported that the academics may face up to 10 years in prison if found to have aided the Chinese military-industrial sector obtain UK defense research and build…
A hacker has unlawfully accessed the water treatment system of a small city in the U.S. state of Florida, briefly raising the amount of sodium hydroxide in the supply. The Pinellas County sheriff’s office said on Tuesday. Two unlawful remote computer intrusions targeted the water treatment plant of the city of Oldsmar last Friday. The initial intrusion at 8:00 a.m. (21:00 GMT last Thursday) was brief and not cause for concern due to supervisors regularly accessing the system remotely to monitor the system. At 1:30 p.m., a plant operator witnessed a second remote access user opening various functions in the…
European champions Bayern Munich have cruised into the Club World Cup final where they will face Mexican side Tigres UANL. This was after two goals from Robert Lewandowski gave them a clinical 2-0 win over Al Ahly on Monday. Bayern Munich will meet CONCACAF Champions Tigres in the showpiece match on Thursday in a bid to win their second title in the competition. The match will come after Egyptians Al Ahly, the African Champions League winners, take on Copa Libertadores holders Palmeiras of Brazil in the third-place playoff. The German team’s manager Hansi Flick was delighted with the outcome and…
Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdullah Hamduk’s Monday cabinet reshuffle has given away power to rebels who have been given several posts in the new government, according to media reports on Tuesday. The post of finance minister was given to Jibril Ibrahim, leader of the rebel group Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), which has been involved in the conflict in Darfur. The reshuffle followed months of pressure and criticism of Hamduk for not initiating reforms quickly enough to alleviate the country’s severe political and economic crisis. It is also part of a peace deal the government signed in October with several rebel…
The European Union’s leading health agency faces a lack of reliable data from EU countries regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and is not transparent enough in some of its decisions, reports said. “Transparency and accountability should be the bedrock of an institution that has a role in protecting public health,” European Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly said in a press release on Tuesday. For example, the agency had not been transparent about exchanges with its Chinese counterpart Centre for Disease Control (CDC), according to the press release. Some surveys the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) had conducted early last year…
Mr Oluyomi Akinyokun, a lecturer at the Federal University of Technology, Akure says the 20 new private universities will help to address the higher education need of Nigerians. Akinyokun, who said this in an interview in Akure on Monday, disagreed with critics that the development amounted to a proliferation of universities in the country. The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved additional 20 private universities. The approval brought the number of private universities in the country to 99. “I do not see it as a proliferation because a country with over 200 million people will need more than 79 private…
Tanzanian Police, on Monday, said they have seized 160 firearms and arrested 68 suspected poachers in the last two months in a forest reserve in the country’s southern region of Ruvuma. The firearms and suspected poachers were respectively seized and arrested in special crackdowns, jointly conducted by the Police and an anti-poaching unit of the Tanzania Wildlife Management Authority (TAWA) in Liparamba forest reserve, said Simon Maigwa, the Ruvuma regional police commander. Maigwa told a news conference that the seized firearms included 149 muzzleloaders, eight shotguns and three rifles. He added that the suspected poachers were charged in courts. “Investigations…
The National Sports Festival (NSF), scheduled to hold in Edo in February has been shifted to April, 2021. Mr Sunday Dare, the Minister of Sports and Youth Development, announced the change on Monday at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 National Briefing in Abuja. The NSF, which had been postponed several times, was to have taken place from February 14 to 28, 2021 in Benin, the Edo capital. Dare said that the postponement was approved owing to scarcity of funds and the virulence of the second wave of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The minister reiterated the commitment of the Federal government to…