Ex-NBA player Jeremy Lin tests positive for COVID-19
Jeremy Lin has tested positive for Covid-19 and is receiving treatment in Shanghai, the former NBA guard and first Asian-American to win an NBA title said in a social media post Saturday. Lin announced...
View Article‘Taking pap, palm wine doesn’t enhance breast milk flow’
A physician, Dr. Agnes Nwoke, says that the cultural practice of consuming palm wine or pap by nursing mothers does not enhance the flow of breast milk. Nwoke, who works with St. Charles Clinic in...
View ArticleAPC crisis: Yari faction tackles Yerima over claims on fresh registration
A statement made by a former Zamfara State Governor, Senator Ahmed Yerima has sparked controversy in the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress. Yarima, had in an interview with newsmen in...
View ArticleHow Secondus can be removed as PDP national chairman —Legal adviser
The National Legal Adviser of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Emmanuel Enoidem, on Monday, said powers to remove the party’s National Working Committee or any national officer reside only in the...
View ArticleRestore peace between Ijaw, Bini communities, INC urges Obaseki
The Ijaw National Congress has frowned on the ongoing conflict between Ikoro, an Ijaw community and Obazuwa, a Bini community, in Edo State. The President of INC, Prof. Benjamin Okaba, in a statement...
View ArticleOpelka rallies past Kyrgios in first round of Toronto ATP
A ruling from the chair rattled Nick Kyrgios on Monday, sparking the Australian’s 4-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-4 first-round loss to Reilly Opelka at the ATP Toronto Masters. Kyrgios came undone after he...
View ArticleGunmen kidnap farmer in Ekiti
A farmer, identified as Suyi, was reportedly kidnapped in the Ikole Area of Ekiti State on Sunday two days after gunmen killed a guest and abducted his wife and daughter along Ayetoro–Ewu Ekiti Road in...
View ArticleNew Kaduna CP resumes, seeks support of residents
The new Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, Abdullahi Mudasiru on Monday resume office following the promotion of former CP, Umar Muri as an Assistant Inspector General of Police. The former CP is now...
View ArticleCP Echeng resumes duty at Bayelsa Command
The new Commissioner of Police posted to the Bayelsa State Command, Eworo Echeng has reported for duties at the state command headquarters in Yenagoa. This was contained in a statement on Monday issued...
View ArticleCholera death toll now 816, NCDC says medical intervention not solution
…says solutions lie in access to safe drinking water The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Monday said medical interventions would not stop the outbreak of Cholera in the country. This is just as...
View ArticleNMA bemoans deficient healthcare financing in Ekiti
The Nigerian Medical Association in Ekiti State has lamented that healthcare financing in the state is at suboptimal level hence the multifaceted problems facing the sector in terms of personnel and...
View ArticleStrike: Resident doctors shun work in Maiduguri despite FG’s threat
Resident Doctors of the university of Maiduguri teaching hospital UMTH have damned the federal government and refused to resume work on Monday. The Chairman of the UMTH chapter of NARD Dr. Sadiq Kaka...
View ArticleHold plebiscite on Biafra, ex-envoy counsels
A former envoy to Malaysia and elder statesman, Amb. Yerima Abdullahi, has urged proponents of Biafra to seek for plebiscite as away out. Abdullahi, who is also a close associate of the president, said...
View ArticleWhy coconut refinery couldn’t be inaugurated -Akwa Ibom govt
The Chief of Staff to Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom state, Mr. Ephraim Inyang has said that the pandemic has distorted so many plans of the state, saying that there were so many things that would...
View ArticleJapan apologises for woman’s death in immigration detention
Japan on Tuesday apologised for the death of a Sri Lankan woman in immigration detention and pledged to reform conditions in the system. Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa said a report on the March death...
View ArticleZambia: From ‘Africa’s Gandhi’ to brutal crackdown
Key dates in the post-independence history of Zambia, which goes to the polls August 12 after a tense presidential election campaign: ‘Africa’s Gandhi’ The country known under British colonial rule as...
View ArticleSit-at-home: PDP condemns killing in Ebonyi
The Peoples Democratic Party, Ebonyi State chapter, on Monday, condemned the killing of suspected travelers at Obiozara, in the Ohaozara Local Government Area of the state, by assailants believed to be...
View ArticleJapan apologises, pledges reform after woman’s death in immigration detention
Japan on Tuesday apologised for the death of a Sri Lankan woman in immigration detention and pledged to reform conditions in the system. Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa said a report on the March death...
View ArticleDangote ranked 117th in latest global billionaires index
The President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has been ranked 117th in the latest Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The index is a daily ranking of the world’s richest people. Details about the...
View ArticleBBNaija S6: Pere against Whitemoney’s ‘cooking strategy’, vows to keep him...
Big Brother Naija Shine Ya Eye Head of House, Pere, spoke against Whitemoney’s habit of cooking for everyone and vows to keep him out of the kitchen. Pere said this on Tuesday, day 17 of the show,...
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