A Consultant Virologist, Prof. Oyewale Tomori has called for improvement of laboratory diagnosis for effective/prompt detection of the diphtheria disease and appropriate treatment. Tomori, also the Chairman of Biovaccines Nig. Ltd., made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Tuesday in Lagos. NAN recalls that there was a recent…
Democratic candidate Kamala Harris put her Republican rival Donald Trump on the defensive in a combative presidential debate on Tuesday with a stream of attacks on his fitness for office, his support of abortion restrictions, and his myriad legal woes. A former prosecutor, Harris, 59, controlled the debate from the start, getting under her rival’s…
The Federal Government has inaugurated the Alternate Education and Renewed Hope National Home Grown School Feeding Project to expand the scope of feeding by reaching 20 million out-of-school and informal children in 2026. Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, made this known while launching the programme on Tuesday in Abuja….
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hailed Oleksandr Usyk’s victory over Tyson Fury to retain the WBA (Super), WBO and WBC world heavyweight titles in Riyadh, saying the boxer embodied the fighting spirit of Ukrainians. Undefeated Usyk, who took Fury’s WBC belt in their first bout in May, beat the British two-time world champion in the rematch…
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday held that its arrest warrant against singer Mercy Chinwo’s former manager, Ezekiel Onyedikachi, remained in effect. Justice Alexander Owoeye said this while adjourning Onyedikachi’s trial for alleged fraudulent conversion of money. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Owoeye had on Jan. 16, issued an arrest…
Speaker of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament, Memounatou Ibrahima, says member states’ reinforcement of ECOWAS Free Movement protocol is crucial to fully realising the bloc’s integration. Ibrahima made this known at a delocalised meeting of the parliament’s Committee on Free Movement in Banjul, The Gambia, on Monday. According to her, the…
The Police Force Kano State Command has detained 157 suspects alledgly involved in armed robbery, thuggery, theft, and illicit drug dealings between March 17, till date.The Commissioner of Police in the state, Ibrahim Adamu Bakori, disclosed these developments during a press conference on Wednesday in Kano. Among those arrested is a 20-year-old man, who confessed…
As Nigeria gears up for its next presidential election in 2027, political activist and former candidate Chief Martin Onovo has issued a stark warning: no single opposition party can unseat President Bola Tinubu without a broad-based coalition. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Onovo stressed that only a unified alliance of…
Israel on Wednesday denied agreeing to a week long ceasefire in Gaza in exchange for a list from Hamas of hostages that the group would release. Media reports claimed the proposed deal would include a six-to-eight-week ceasefire, expanded aid access to the Palestinian enclave, and efforts to rebuild its health system, destroyed by Israeli strikes….
Israel has ordered the closure of six schools run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in occupied East Jerusalem, Palestinian authorities have said. The UN agency said the security forces entered the six schools and gave “illegal” closure orders effective in 30 days. It said the school closure directly impacted some 800 boys…
