The meeting of North Central Governors’ Forum has ended with unanimous resolution to collaborate in promoting regional development as well as surmounting the region’s security challenges. The governors will also take special action to surmount the region’s security challenges of kidnapping, cattle rustling and banditry. They, in a communiqué issued at the end of the meeting on Monday, agreed to join relevant stakeholders for the economic rejuvenation and promotion of regional development through increased agricultural production, Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) and bridging the infrastructure deficit. Apparently irked by the level of insecurity in the country, the Forum called on the…
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The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has revoked operating licences of 42 microfinance banks. The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC disclosed this on Friday in an announcement on its website titled ‘Notice of closure of 42 microfinance banks’. “The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, the official liquidator of the banks whose licences were recently revoked, is in the process of closing the listed banks and pay their insured depositors. “We therefore request that all depositors of these banks should visit the closed banks’ addresses and meet NDIC officials for the verification of their claims, commencing from Monday, 21st December, 2020 till…
The Senate has passed the 2021 Appropriation Bill of N13.5 trillion. This followed the adoption of the report of Senate Committee on Appropriations at plenary on Monday. President Muhammadu Buhari had on Oct. 8, presented the 2021 budget of N13.08 trillion to the joint session of the National Assembly for approval.
The Kebbi state Chapter of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists Kebbi State Council, NAWOJ, has felicitates with members of the association as they celebrate Christmas and New Year. The chairperson, Mrs. Laiatu Bamaiyi in a goodwill message on Monday, also called on them to continue to observe COVID-19 protocols, especially during the Yuletide. “I urge all members to celebrate Christmas and New Year with consciousness and in conformity with the laid down rules, regulations and protocols to prevent spread of the dreaded COVID-19 virus. She also urged citizens of the state to be security conscious and be vigilant to…
The list of European Union (EU) countries stopping flights from Britain continued to grow on Sunday as alarmed officials reacted to a new, highly contagious variant of the Coronavirus that has sent London and south-eastern England into lockdown. The Netherlands was the first on Sunday to announce an immediate ban on flights, with similar advisories coming throughout the day from Belgium, Austria, France, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and Sweden. Ireland will institute a 48-hour flight ban to Britain while ferries will be limited to freight travel. Outside of Europe, the Canadian government also announced it would…
Argentina, Chile, and Colombia joined a raft of other countries that took action on Sunday to stop flights from Britain due to concerns over a new, highly contagious variant of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Argentina will “suspend arrivals and departures to and from Britain as a precaution from tomorrow,” the interior ministry in Buenos Aires wrote in a statement Sunday evening. A single flight from Britain expected for Monday morning has been allowed to land at Buenos Aires International Airport. Passengers and crew will be kept in quarantine for seven days. The Colombian government also decided on Sunday to no…
Ms Ulla Muller, the Country Representative of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) in Nigeria, says Vesicovaginal Fistula (VVF) is one of the most devastating condition a woman can live with. She made the assertion during an interview on the flagship News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum held virtually on Sunday. VVF is an abnormal opening between the bladder and the vagina that results in continuous and unremitting urinary incontinence. The entity is one among the most distressing complications of gynecologic and obstetric procedures. However, it could be treated through surgery, depending on the severity. Muller, who described such health condition…
Russia’s five-time world champion weightlifter and Olympic medallist Tatiana Kashirina has been temporarily suspended for an anti-doping rule violation, Russian news agency TASS reported on Sunday. Kashirina, who won silver at the 2012 Olympics and five gold medals at the world championships between 2010 and 2018, was one of the favourites for a gold medal at next year’s Tokyo Games. The report said Kashirina, 29, was suspended after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) took results of doping tests of Russian athletes between 2012 to 2015 from the Moscow Laboratory during an investigation. She previously served a two-year suspension from 2006-08…
The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC), has reported 501 new infections of the Coronavirus pandemic outbreak in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Sunday. Since the beginning of the outbreak in February, more than 874,617 samples have been tested by NCDC, out of which 78,434 were positive. The agency said that the country sadly recorded three additional deaths in the last 24 hours, raising the overall total in the nation since the start of the pandemic to 1,221. The NCDC also disclosed that 519 patients have been discharged after testing negative from the virus.…
The National Varieties Release Committee (NVRC) has released 18 high yielding crop varieties to boost Nigerian agricultural productivity in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s 9-point agenda. The release of the new crop varieties was announced by NVRC chairman, Chief Oladosu Awoyemi during its 29th meeting at the National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology (NACGRAB), Ibadan. In a press statement from NACGRAB’s Registrar, Dr Sunday Aladele on Sunday, it was stated that the new varieties were approved out of a total of 25 varieties submitted for consideration by research institutions, universities and private seed companies. The statement listed the varieties…