Gunmen on Saturday, killed a Deputy Registrar and Head, Guidance & Counseling Unit, Students Affairs Division of Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA, Dr Amos Arijesuyo. This is contained in a statement by the spokesperson of the university, Mr. Adegbenro Adebanjo made available to ASHENEWS on Monday. According to Adegbenro, Dr. Arijesuyo died of injuries from gunshot wounds from bullets of the gunmen, when his private vehicle was attacked along the Ilesa-Akure road in the evening of Saturday January 16, 2021. He said the deputy registrar was returning to Akure from a trip to Ibadan when his vehicle ran into…
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Sunday announced 15 deaths from COVID-19, even as it recorded 1,444 new cases. The NCDC disclosed this on its official website late on Sunday. The country has tested 1,154,138 people since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was recorded on February 27, 2020. According to the public health agency, the new infections has taken the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 110,387, which includes 89,317 discharged cases and 1,435 deaths. The agency said the 1,444 new cases were registered from 20 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in the past 24 hours.…
The Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr Hamid Bobboyi has said that UBEC was collaborating with states to improve girl child enrollment, particularly in the Northern parts of the country. Bobboyi, who disclosed this on Sunday, in Gafia, Kaita local government area of Katsina State, at the commissioning of a Girl-child Community Centre, added that the collaboration was prioritising Northern Nigeria because of its huge numbers of out-of-school girls. “The world is changing, the knowledge of our mothers 40 to 60 years ago cannot equip our girls to survive in the 21st century. Without the education of girls,…
Senator Aliyu Wamakko on Saturday in Sokoto, announced a donation of N19.8 million at the launch of three books written by a renowned Islamic cleric, Dr Jabir Mai-hula. He announced N3 million donation by the Senate president, Dr Ahmad Lawan; N1 million by Senate leader, Dr Abdullahi Yahayya; N1 million by the Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Maigari Dingyadi; his personal donation of N3 million and N2 million by Senator Ibrahim Gobir. Others donations were N3 million by Senator Danjuma Goje; N2 million by Senator Adamu Aliero; N1 million by Seantor Abdullahi Adamu; N1 million by Senator Lawalli Anka and…
Manchester United held on to top spot in the ongoing 2020/2021 English Premier League (EPL) after a 0-0 draw at champions Liverpool on Sunday. Alisson made two good saves for Liverpool while Thiago and Roberto Firmino went close for the hosts as Manchester United remained top, two points clear of Leicester and three ahead of Liverpool. Manchester City can go second if they beat Crystal Palace in the day’s late match. Tottenham Hotspur are fourth after a 3-1 win at bottom side Sheffield United. Victory for Liverpool would have taken them back to the top. With Joel Matip not fit…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has won all the 44 local government council and 484 councillorship seats at the Saturday’s Kano state local government councils poll. Prof. Ibrahim Garba-Sheka, Chairman of the state Independent Electoral Commission, SIEC, announced the results of the election on Sunday. Garba-Sheka said that candidates of the APC emerged winners of the 44 chairmanship and 484 councillorship positions in the election. “The total votes scored by the candidates is 2,530.577 million. Work is still in progress to ascertain the total votes scored by candidates of other political parties,” he said. Garba-Sheka said the election was generally…
Sunshine Stars Football Club of Akure scored through substitute Sadeeq Yusuf in the 90th minute on Sunday for a 1-0 win over visiting Warri Wolves. Yusuf scored with a powerful header to a pass from another substitute, Stephen Begbaji, in the Match Day 5 game played at the Ondo State Sports Complex in Akure. Sunshine Stars made five substitutions in the second half of the 2020/2021 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) match. But their best chance of the game was in the 61st minute, when forward Chinedu Udechuckwu’s shot was deflected off target. Also, in the 81st minute, Sunshine Stars’ had another…
The President, Aviation Roundtable (ART), Dr Gabriel Olowo has called on domestic airlines to consider merger due to the present rise in the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Olowo gave the advice in a communique issued by the General Manager, Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB), Mr Tunji Oketumbi in Lagos on Sunday. “Looking at the sector, our airlines are not too strong. We have said it enough that they should merge. “I hope the sense in merger will come to play with the new ones. “Otherwise they will continue to parasite one another and at the end of the day, none…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it recorded a trading surplus of ₦28.38 billion in September 2020. The Corporation disclosed this in its Monthly Financial and Operation Report (MFOR) for the month of September, released in Abuja, on Sunday. It said that the amount was slightly lower than the ₦29.60 billion surplus in August 2020. The marginal reduction in surplus, according to the report, was as a result of lower contribution from the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) which recorded zero crude oil lifting from the Okono Okpoho facility during the month under review The situation, it further attributed…
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will issue a slew of executive orders in his first hours in office, in both substantive and symbolic measures to reverse policies instituted during the Trump administration, U.S. media outlets reported. Rejoining the Paris climate accord, reversing the ban on immigration from several Muslim-majority countries, and issuing a mandate on wearing masks while engaging in inter-state travel are among the top priorities. According to a memo from incoming chief of staff Ronald Klain cited by The New York Times, CNN and other outlets, Biden will also try to speed up the reunification of families, after children were…