ActionAid Nigeria, an international NGO, has charged youths to embrace agriculture in order to address unemployment and reduce the spate of violent extremism in the country. Mr Friday Ogezi, Project Officer with ActionAid Nigeria, made the call on Saturday at the 2021 Youth Summit, on preventing violent extremism in Kogi, at Abache and Emekutu in Ankpa local government. Ogezi said the summit was in commemoration of the 2021 International Youth Day with the theme: Transforming Food System; Youth Innovation in Peace Building Through Climate Change Mitigation. The summit was organised by ActionAid Nigeria in collaboration with Participation Initiative for Behavioural…
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Nearly two million people were urged to seek shelter as torrential rain triggered floods and landslides in western Japan on Saturday, leaving at least one dead and three missing. AFP reports that authorities in seven regions, mainly in the northern part of Kyushu island, issued their highest evacuation alert as the weather agency reported unprecedented levels of rain in the area. Under the non-compulsory alert, more than 1.8 million residents have been asked to leave their homes immediately, according to public broadcaster NHK. TV footage showed rescuers towing residents through submerged streets on a lifeboat in the town of Kurume…
Twenty-five travelers have been confirmed killed and 14 others injured along Rukuba road in Jos North local government area of Plateau state on Saturday morning. The victims, who were reportedly travelling from Bauchi en-route Jos to Ikare in Ondo state on Saturday morning, ran into a crowd of sympathisers that were in procession for the mass burial of those killed in a Miango attack last week. Reacting to the incident, Plateau state governor, Simon Lalong in a statement by his spokesperson, Simon Makut, condemned the attack and warned troublemakers bent on fomenting trouble in the state to desist. According to…
Yobe state governor, Mai Mala-Buni has directed that downstream communities be immediately relocated to safer grounds, to avert perennial flooding occasioned by the rainfall. He also directed the state Ministries of Environment and Humanitarian Affairs as well as the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), to liaise with the communities to fast-track effective relocation and resettlement. A statement signed by the Director-General, Press and Media Affairs to the Governor of Mamman Mohammed in Damaturu on Saturday said the measure was to protect the people against flooding. “There are warnings from the Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NiMET) indicating heavy rainfall with massive floods…
The Adamawa government has confirmed the reemergence and detection of Circulating Vaccine Derived Poliovirus type 2 case in the state. The state Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Prof. Abdullahi Isa disclosed this during the official flag off of first Round Outbreak Response immunisation on Saturday in Yola. Isa described Vaccine Derived Poliovirus type 2 (VDPV) as a strain of the weakened Poliovirus that was initially included in Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) that has changed over time and behaves more like the wild or naturally occurring virus. He expressed concern that the current resurface of the virus in the state…
Sokoto state university, SSU, has distanced the institution from an advertisement purporting that it is soliciting applications for recruitment exercise into various positions. A statement by the Registrar, Amina Garba made available to ASHENEWS on Saturday, said the university was neither recruiting directly nor indirectly. “The attention of the Management of Sokoto State University, Sokoto, has been drawn to false advertisements being circulated online, soliciting applications for a purported recruitment exercise. “It is to that effect, the Management wishes to notify the general public that the University is not recruiting for any position, either directly or through any proxy (ie…
By Abujah Racheal The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has disclosed that 11 patients died from coronavirus (COVID-19) on Friday in Nigeria. The NCDC, which made this known via its verified website on Saturday morning, said the country’s fatality toll from the pandemic now stood at 2,211. The agency added that the country logged 636 additional infections on Friday, 117 fewer than the 753 cases recorded on Thursday. COVID-19 cumulative cases now stand at 181,297. According to the NCDC, the additional 636 infections were confirmed in 16 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Lagos state, the epicentre of…
Flood has destroys 150 farmlands and 66 houses in Lababiri village, Bakta district in Shelleng local government area of Adamawa state, the State Emergency Management Agency (ADSEMA), has said. The Executive director, Dr Mohamed Sulaiman who confirmed the development in Yola on Saturday, said the catastrophe occurred between August 11 and 12, following uninterrupted torrential downpours that lasted for two days. “The agency received a report of the incident in Lababiri village, where more than 150 farmlands and about 66 houses were destroyed by the flood,” he said. According to Sulaiman, the people of the affected communities were currently taking…
Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema took an early lead in the country’s presidential election over long-time rival and incumbent Edgar Lungu, according to first results issued by the electoral commission on Saturday. Lungu, 64 and in power since 2015, faces a potentially tight contest against Hichilema – known as “HH” – a businessman who has criticised the president’s management of an economy in turmoil. Investors are closely watching the outcome of Thursday’s election: the southern African country is highly indebted and suffered the continent’s first pandemic-era sovereign default in November. International Monetary Fund (IMF) support, already broadly agreed, is on…
Niger state governor and the Chairman North Central Governors Forum, Abubakar Sani-Bello has commiserated with his Sokoto state counterpart, Aminu Tambuwal and the family of former President Shehu Shagari on the death of Hadiza Shagari. Sani-Bello in a statement by his spokesperson, Mary Noel-Berje on Friday, said that her death has created a vacuum that would be hard to be filled. He also expressed his heartfelt sympathy to the family of the deceased, Sokoto state government and the federal government over the death of the former First Lady. He said that she played an important role in supporting her husband…