UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that a return to war in Gaza must be avoided at all costs amid fears that the three-week-old ceasefire agreement between Hamas fighters and Israel is about to end. Guterres disclosed this in a statement relayed to journalists by UN Geneva spokesperson Rolando Gomez on Tuesday. “We must at all…
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Airtel Nigeria have introduced the Nigeria Learning Passport (NLP), a digital learning programme, to a primary school in Lagos State. Chief of UNICEF Lagos Field Office, Celine Lafoucriere, announced this during a joint field trip by Airtel Nigeria and UNICEF to St Agnes Primary School, Maryland, Lagos. The…
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has directed security agencies to monitor the influx of people that could pose security threats into FCT. The Commissioner of Police in the FCT, Olatunji Disu, disclosed this while briefing journalists on the outcome of the FCT Security Committee meeting in Abuja on Tuesday….
MTN, Nigeria’s largest telecommunications operator on Tuesday commenced implementation of the Nigerian Communications Commission’s approved tariff hike by increasing its data prices. A check by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) using the *312# code on the MTN network showed the revised MTN data prices. For the monthly plans, MTN 1.8GB now goes for N1,500,…
Zambian health minister, Elijah Muchima said 104,585 people have received doses of the oral cholera vaccine in Chililabombwe, Zambia’s hardest-hit district in Copperbelt Province in the latest cholera outbreak. Muchima said the number represents 81 per cent of the targeted population of 129,837. According to the minister, the vaccination campaign, which started last Friday, was…
South Sudan President Salva Kiir has sacked two vice presidents, James Wani Igga and Hussein Abdelbagi Akol, in the latest reshuffle in the unity government. Kiir, in a presidential decree broadcast by the South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation, also dismissed the head of the Internal Security Bureau of the National Security Service, Akech Tong Aleu. No…
Investigation by Exam Ethics Marshals International (EEMI) has revealed that 67 per cent of private and public secondary schools function as ‘exam magic centres,’ where exam malpractices thrive. Ike Onyechere, the founding chairman of EEMI, disclosed these findings at a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja, focusing on ‘Combating the Dangers of Illegal Levies in…
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday ordered forfeiture to the Federal Government, of Sigma Golf Nig. Ltd. rights, title and interest in 6,250,000,000 units of the Keystone Bank Ltd. ordinary shares of N1.00 each. The court also ordered winding up of the company. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Rahman Oshodi…
Gov Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi, on Tuesday denied involvement in the arrest of the former Youth President of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council, Mr Igboayaka .O. Igboayaka. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the police announced the arrest of Igboayaka on Feb.10 based on a petition written against him by undisclosed persons. The…
German conservative leader Friedrich Merz on Tuesday accused Chancellor Olaf Scholz of stoking “class warfare’’ as rivals faced off in the final parliamentary session before national elections on Feb. 23. Germany’s lower house of parliament, Scholz said Merz’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance would lower taxes on the rich. Merz, In a major speech in the Bundestag,…
