Towards tackling the threats of gully erosion Sokoto state, Governor Aminu Tambuwal on Wednesday inaugurated the N3 billion “Mabera Storm Water Management Works” and other erosion projects in the state. The state government, Tambuwal disclosed, has committed N1.033 billion counterpart- funding for the projects made up of a total of 18.5 kilometres across Mabera Jelani, Mabera Iddi, Nakasarin Barebari, Nakasarin Nagaji, Salame and Trade Fair areas in Sokoto township. ASHENEWS reports that the projects, which are being executed under the World Bank-assisted Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project, NEWMAP, when completed, would reduce communities’ vulnerability to soil erosion, floods and…
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange must be immediately freed from the high-security prison in the UK, as keeping him in further custody is illegal after a UK court rejected his extradition to the U.S., Monika Karbowska, said. Karbowska, a member of the French NGO WikiJustice for Assange, made this position known in an interview with Sputnik. She added that the whistleblower could count on the group if he wished to go to France. UK district judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled on Monday not to extradite Assange to the U.S., citing health reasons and the risk of suicide in the U.S. prison system…
Neimeth International Pharmaceutical Plc has emerged the best performing stock in 2020 in percentage terms, appreciating by 259.68 per cent. Statistics obtained from the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) for the period indicated that the stock, which opened trading at 62k, rose by 259.68 per cent to close at N2.23 per share. NAN reports that FTN Cocoa came second with a growth of 230 per cent to close the year at 66k compared with the opening price of 20k. Airtel Africa trailed with 184.98 per cent to close at N851.80 from N298.90, while Livestock Feeds improved by 178 per cent to…
Dr Abidemi Babalola, Research Fellow, Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, says governments should engage thorough breed archaeologists to meet the Coronavirus (COVID-19) challenges. Babalola said this during an exhibition marking 60 years of excavations of archaeological materials in Igboukwu in Anambra on Wednesday. The event held at the National Commission for Museum and Monuments (NCMMN) centre, Umudege, Igboukwu. The exhibition was jointly organised by Babalola and Dr Kingsley Daraojimba of Archaeology and Tourism Department, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. According to Babalola, from historical accounts, the COVID-19 pandemic which began in Wuham, China, was not the first…
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo on Tuesday, opened his defence at the Federal High Court Abuja, where he called two witnesses, one of whom was the Deputy Registrar, Legal, University of Ibadan, Mr Abayomi Ajayi. Ajayi told the court that, that some parts of Obaseki’s original degree certificate were missing in the photocopy he attached to his INEC form EC9 and 001 did not amount to forgery. The witness, who was led in evidence by Mr Ken Mozia (SAN), Obaseki’s counsel, explained that Obaseki’s photocopy was incomplete due to the process of photocopying. The witness also told the court that…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating the crashing by unknown persons, of radio frequencies used by U.S. air traffic controllers, to broadcast a threat to fly an airplane into U.S. Capitol in revenge for the assassination of prominent Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. U.S. broadcaster CBS news reported this on Wednesday.Congress is due to convene for a meeting later in the day to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election. “We are flying a plane into the Capitol Wednesday. “Soleimani will be avenged,” what sounded like an electronically generated male voice said on the audio recording, published by…
Britain offered a £4.6 billion support package for businesses on Tuesday to soften an expected recession caused by a surge in COVID-19 cases that has triggered a third national lockdown. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the lockdown on Monday, saying a highly contagious coronavirus variant risked overwhelming the health service within 21 days. Most people must work from home and schools have closed for almost all pupils. Hospitality venues must stay shut, as well as non-essential shops. Britain’s economy looks likely to tip back into recession – shrinking in the final quarter of 2020 and the first quarter of 2021…
For the second time in a week, Nigeria has recorded highest daily new cases of COVID-19 totalling 1,354, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has disclosed on Tuesday. The health agency said the figure represented the highest number in a single day since the first index case was reported in Nigeria on February 27, 2020, smashing the record of 1,204 infections recorded on Monday. The figure also showed that the infection rate has continued to soar across the country, especially in Lagos State, which has remained the epicentre of the pandemic in Nigeria. With the 1,354 newly infected people the…
Armenian President Armen Sarkissian has tested positive to COVID-19, said the presidential office on Tuesday. According to the office, Sarkissian went to London on a New Year holiday with his family. He underwent a successful leg surgery there and then showed symptoms of the novel coronavirus on Sunday. Later, the result of his test for the coronavirus was positive. Sarkissian will temporarily work remotely, said the office. The number of COVID-19 cases in the country reached 160,544 on Tuesday, with 145,759 recoveries and 2,878 deaths in total, according to the Armenian Ministry of Health. Xinhua
The management of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says there is no 50 per cent increase in electricity tariff. The spokesperson of the commission, Mr Micheal Faloseyi, in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, said o such increase as postulated in some quarters that electricity tariff had been increased by 50 per cent. “The commission hereby state unequivocally that no approval has been granted for 50 per cent tariff increase in the tariff order for Electricity Distribution Companies (DISCOs) which took effect from January 1, 2021. “On the contrary, the tariff for customers on Service Bands D and E…