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Saturday, 06 March 2021 05:29

Buhari to service chiefs: Secure Nigeria before rainy season

President Muhammadu Buhari has told newly appointed service chiefs to deliver on their mandate to guarantee security especially before the start of the rainy season to enable farmers go back to their farms. Buhari, who spoke Friday at a ceremony to decorate the new service chiefs with their ranks at the State House Abuja, charged them to speed up their actions in freeing the country from the current state of insecurity. “During our four-hour security meeting, on Tuesday, I had taken the responsibility as Commander-in-Chief for you to go out into the field and secure the country. “You have got…

Saturday, 06 March 2021 05:27

Excitement, hope as doctor gets Nigeria's first Covid-19 vaccine

A doctor who has spent the past year treating Covid-19 patients on Friday became the first person in Nigeria to be vaccinated against the disease, kicking off a mammoth campaign that aims to inoculate 80 million people this year. Vaccinating all of Nigeria’s 200 million people and those in other developing countries is seen as key to stemming the global spread of the coronavirus. “I am happy to be the first and I am happy I am not the last,” the doctor, 42-year-old Ngong Cyprian, told Reuters. “I want everybody to be vaccinated.” Two other male doctors and one female…

Saturday, 06 March 2021 05:24

Obasanjo narrates his Covid-19 experience

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Friday, said he once tested positive for Covid-19 but was relieved 72 hours later when subsequent tests came out negative. Obasanjo who turned 84 March 5, said he was a bit concerned about it and had to call his daughter, Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, that he was not having any symptom but Covid-19 test from sample extracted from him read positive. He said this in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital while speaking at a colloquium organised to celebrate his 84th birthday. It was held at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta. He said Iyabo’s verdict was that…

Saturday, 06 March 2021 05:23

We’ll fight corruption, not corrupt people - EFCC chair

Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, yesterday officially assumed duties with a pledge to steer the organisation towards proactive and intelligence-led investigation. Bawa, who took over the reins of office at the headquarters of the commission in Abuja, said he would create a full-fledged directorate of intelligence that would spearhead intelligence gathering which would ensure proactive response in the fight against corruption. According to him, “we are going to digitalise our processes and we are going to create a new full-pledged directorate of intelligence to enable us gather intelligence so that we will be proactive in…

Saturday, 06 March 2021 05:19

‘Thieves, you have destroyed the country’, Algerian protesters chanted in revival of street movement

Thousands of Algerians demonstrated against the political and military elite in cities across the country for a second successive Friday, as the United Nations human rights body voiced concern at what it called a crackdown on protesters. The demonstrations mark a resumption of the street protest movement, calling for the old political establishment to depart and the army to quit politics, that suspended its weekly marches a year ago because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Police have not stopped the protests but maintain a heavy street presence and the spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said there…

Friday, 05 March 2021 03:56

Covid-19: FG extends work-from-home directive to junior civil servants

Federal Government on Thursday in Abuja extended working from home directive for civil servants from GL 12 and below until the end of March. Folasade Yemi-Esan, Head of Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF), made the announcement in a statement issued by Abdulganiyu Aminu, Director Press and Public Relations, office of the HOCSF. “All public servants on GL12 and below have been directed to continue working from home till the end of March 2021,” the statement said. Yemi-Esan said the latest directive was in adherence to the advice of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Covid-19. She stressed that the…

Friday, 05 March 2021 03:51

23m 40-tonne trucks of food thrown away yearly - Report

More than 900 million tonnes of food is thrown away every year, according to a global report. The UN Environment Programme's Food Waste Index revealed that 17% of the food available to consumers - in shops, households and restaurants - goes directly into the bin. Some 60% of that waste is in the home. The lockdown appears to have had a surprising impact - at least in the UK - by reducing domestic food waste. Sustainability charity Wrap, the UN's partner organisation on this report, says people have been planning their shopping and their meals more carefully. And in an…

Thursday, 04 March 2021 16:53

Buhari’s shoot-at-sight order on AK47 should also affects Amotekun operatives - Miyetti Allah

The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore Association has said that the order given by President Buhari for security agents to shoot anyone seen with AK47 rifles in the bushes, will also affect “Amotekun and other ethnic militias.” Recall that on Wednesday, February 3, presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, during an interview with BBC Hausa, disclosed that the President has issued a directive for security agents to go into the forest and shoot anyone seen carrying rifles such as AK47. Reacting to Garba's comment, the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore National Secretary, Saleh Alhassan, in an interview with SaharaReporters, said that every non-state actor…

Thursday, 04 March 2021 03:19

Buhari gives shoot-at-sight order on anyone seen with AK-47

Garba Shehu, a presidential spokesperson, says President Muhammadu Buhari has directed security agencies to shoot anyone seen with AK-47. Shehu, who disclosed this in an interview with the BBC, said the president directed a clampdown on bandits who have refused to surrender. On the efforts being made to rid Zamfara and other northern states of bandits, Shehu said the government is resorting to lethal force. “The president has ordered security forces to go into the bushes and shoot whoever they see with sophisticated weapons like AK-47,” he said in the interview. “He ordered that whoever is seen with terrible weapons…

Thursday, 04 March 2021 03:18

Whenever Fulanis commit offence, FG ‘calls for negotiation and gives them money’ - Ortom

Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue, says armed herders carry guns that are more sophisticated than those provided to the police and operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS). He said the federal government should treat armed herders in the same manner as members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN) and Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Ortom spoke on Wednesday during an interview with BBC. The governor bemoaned the “free movement” of armed foreign herders in the country, noting that the situation cannot occur in other African countries. Ortom noted that it is injustice for the federal government to send…

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Thursday, 04 March 2021 03:17

Nigeria ranks lowest in data affordability for internet access – Report

A global study on the quality of digital wellbeing in 85 countries has ranked Nigeria the lowest country in Internet affordability. According to the Surfshark’s Digital Quality of Life Index 2020, Nigeria comes last at 85th, following Columbia and Honduras, while Israel led as the country with the most affordable Internet globally. The report also showed that Nigeria was one of the countries where subscribers worked the hardest to buy data. Where on a global average, individuals worked three hours and 48 minutes a month to pay for the cheapest broadband package; in Nigeria, it takes almost 34 hours. Nigerians…

Thursday, 04 March 2021 03:16

FG approves SIM swap centres

Federal Government has approved establishment of dedicated Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) swap centres by Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) across all states and local government areas (LGAs) in the country. A statement jointly signed by Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) and National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), said the approval was part of resolutions reached at the Ministerial Task Force meeting on the NIN-SIM registration held recently and chaired by Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami. “Approval was given to MNOs for the establishment of dedicated SIM swap centres across the Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Nigeria; approval was given for…

Thursday, 04 March 2021 03:15

Violence erupts as kidnapped Zamfara schoolgirls return to families

One moment, Hadiza was weeping and flinging her arms around her father for the first time since her abduction; the next - gunfire and tear gas filled the air and people ran for cover. It was supposed to be a joyous reunion to end the five-day ordeal of 279 girls kidnapped last week from the Jangebe Government Girls Science Secondary School in a remote corner of northwest Nigeria. Cheering children had lined the street as buses brought the girls, grinning and waving, back to their school from the Zamfara state capital Gusau, where they had been cared for since their…

Wednesday, 03 March 2021 16:05

Macron admits France murdered Algerian independence figure

President Emmanuel Macron has admitted for the first time that French soldiers murdered a top Algerian independence figure then covered up his death in the latest acknowledgement by Paris of its colonial-era crimes. Macron met four of the grandchildren of Ali Boumendjel and admitted "in the name of France" that the lawyer had been detained, tortured and killed in Algiers on March 23, 1957, his office said Tuesday. French authorities had previously claimed that he had committed suicide while in detention, a lie that his widow and other family members had campaigned for years to see overturned. "Looking our history…

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