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Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, has arrived Maiduguri, the Borno State capital for a condolence visit over the massacre of over 50 farmers earlier this week. The Senate President accompanied by the Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu and others arrived Maiduguri at about 10:45am on Wednesday morning. He also rescheduled his meeting […]

Dr Alex Otti has announced his withdrawal from Abia All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary. The candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the 2015 and 2019 polls said he will pursue his governorship ambition in another party. He withdrew less than 24 hours before the commencement of the exercise. Otti, who joined […]

Jeanne Clerk, Spokesperson, United States of America Embassy in Nigeria, says giving voice to all the governed, including the under-represented by the media, assists in reduceing voter apathy during elections. Clerk, made the remark during a South-South town hall meeting with the theme, ‘’Setting Agenda for Sustainable Democratic Culture,’’ organised by the Nigerian Guild of […]

Ulla Mueller, the Country Representative of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) in Nigeria has expressed determination towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) where every pregnancy will be wanted, with zero Maternal Mortality (MM). She made the UN body’s position known at the “Strategic Stakeholders Reflection” meeting on Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA)-Funded project held […]

Citing UN data, top independent rights experts on Wednesday said seven journalists had been killed in Ukraine while many had been facing unprecedented danger and even targeted while performing their work. According to the report, cited by the experts, journalists have been tortured, kidnapped, attacked and killed, or refused safe passage from cities and regions […]

  Pope Francis is using a wheelchair to protect his injured knee. The head of the Catholic Church, 85, was pushed by a Vatican employee to an audience with nuns on Thursday. The pontiff said recently that his doctors had told him to rest his painful right knee. He has been seen hobbling in recent […]

The World Veterinary Day celebration was started by the World Veterinary Association in the year 2000; and is celebrated every year on the last Saturday of April. The World Veterinary Association has membership in more than 70 countries of the world with active support from both local and national associations of the Veterinary Medical Practitioners […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Israel has lambasted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for claiming Adolf Hitler had Jewish origins, saying it was an “unforgivable” falsehood that debased the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust. Leaders from several Western nations denounced the foreign minister’s comments and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russia of having forgotten the […]

Protesters against U.S. Supreme Court Anti-abortion activists and pro-abortion rights supporters took to the streets of Washington on Tuesday after news that the U.S. Supreme Court may overturn the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling which legalized abortion nationwide. A leaked initial draft majority opinion suggests the court has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, Politico […]

Nigeria has signed an agreement with Cuba to implement actions on contract manufacturing, technology transfer, vaccine production and commercialisation of the Cuban biopharmaceutical products in Nigeria. Nigeria’s Ambassador to Cuba, Benaoyagha Okoyen, in a statement made available to the News men in New York, said the two countries also agreed to partner in other areas. He said […]