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…
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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…
Sokoto state governor, Aminu Tambuwal has condoled the family of late Shehu Shagari over the death of a matriarch, Hadiza Shagari. The governor, in a condolence message he signed and made available to ASHENEWS on Friday, expressed sadness over the loss. “On the behalf of the people and government of Sokoto state, I wish to express deep sadness over the passing away of our mother, Hajiya Hadiza Shehu Shagari, wife of our late father, former President of Nigeria, Alhaji Shehu Shagari. “The death of Hajiya Hadiza is a great loss, not only to the respected Shehu Shagari family but certainly…
Sokoto state government, in conjunction with its citizens in the diaspora, will soon open a Diaspora office that would serve as liaison for the activities of its citizens residing in various countries of the world. Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto disclosed this in response to a request for such an office by a philanthropist, Dr Said Alhassan, a citizen of Sokoto state resident in Germany who procured 12 commuter buses for subsidized transportation of the students and staff to and from the campus of Sokoto State University. According to Tambuwal, who recalled his instituting of a Committee on Diaspora in…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, President of Ghana, Nana Akuffo-Addo and Mahamad Ennaceur, former interim President of Tunisia have been nominated for the African Leadership Award. Similarly, the first Prime Minister of Nigeria, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, former President of Ghana Jerry Rawlings and Desmond Tutu, former Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africa, have also been nominated for Posthumous Elites Heroes award. The Prestigious Elites Organisations Board announced this in a statement issued by the Executive Chairman, Mr Uwakhemen Festus on behalf of the governing council, on Friday in Abuja. Festus said…
A student of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Daniel Adeniyi has emerged the winner of the 2021 edition of the Committee of Deans of Engineering and Technology of Nigerian Universities’ (CODET) National Engineering Project Competition. He outclassed contestants from other universities across the country at the grand finale of the Individual Category of the competition held at the NIGCOM HOUSE Abuja on the 7th of August 2021 to pick the First Position Prize, according to a statement by the spokesperson of FUTA, Adegbenro Adebanjo. Josiah Ati of the Federal University of Oye Ekiti and Blessing Olowoeye of Nnamdi…
Princess, one of the Big Brother Naija, Season 6 housemates, says she is in love with a fellow housemate, Cross. Princess said on Friday during a Diary Session that she had not been able express her feeling to Cross because too many ladies were always around him. Earlier in the week, Cross was seen telling other housemates that lots of people would be surprised about his decision after the show. He promised to go all out to have a relationship with Peace, a fellow housemate. Cross described Peace as a “Correct babe” he had observed very closely in the last…
The federal government of Nigeria has established more than 1,667 centres and developed 16 policies within two years, geared towards supporting the digital economy sector in the country. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, made this known at the commissioning of seven projects of the 11th batch of digital economy for a digital Nigeria. The event was done virtually on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja. Pantami said that the seven projects could be mapped to relevant pillars of the National Digital Economy Policy Strategy (NDEPS). He added that 12 policies had been…