The Enugu State government has embarked on the construction of new 260-type 2 primary healthcare centres across the state. Governor Peter Mbah disclosed this on Thursday when he received the minister of state for health and social welfare, Dr Tunji Alausa, at the Government House, Enugu. Mbah said the state government had taken significant steps…
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has approved the sacking of the General Manager of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Bolaji Oreagba. The dismissal of Oreagba was made known by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Transportation, Olawale Musa, in a statement on Thursday. He disclosed that Governor Sanwo-Olu has appointed Bakare-Oki…
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Simon Lalong, is set to resign as a minister to represent Plateau South Senatorial District in the Senate. This followed the collection of his certificate of return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja on Thursday, November 23, 2023. The Court of Appeal had, on November 7,…
The world’s biggest iceberg is on the move after more than 30 years being stuck to the ocean floor. A23a, as it’s called, calved from the Antarctic coastline in 1986, but almost immediately grounded in the Weddell Sea to become, essentially, an ice island. At almost 4,000 sq km (1,500 sq miles) in area, it’s…
The long-anticipated four-day pause in the fighting between Israel and Hamas is due to begin now The temporary ceasefire was due to start at 07:00 local time (05:00 GMT) and the first group of 13 hostages held by Hamas will be freed at 16:00, according to Qatari mediators Under the deal, Hamas will release 50…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, on Thursday, said it would end the importation of refined petroleum products by December 2024 as all the country’s refineries would be operational by then. It also projected that the national oil firm would grow its revenue to N4.5tn at the end of 2023 adding that the rehabilitation of…
A new revelation by the BBC shows that a key political ally of Vladimir Putin has adopted a child seized from a Ukrainian children’s home Sergey Mironov, the 70-year-old leader of a Russian political party, is named on the adoption record of a two-year-old girl who was taken in 2022 by a woman he is…
Prosecutors in Spain are seeking a nine-year jail term for footballer Dani Alves who is accused of raping a young woman in December 2022. They are also demanding that the former Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain full-back, who has been in jail in Spain since his arrest in January, pay his alleged victim 150,000 euros in…
Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State, has said that President Bola Tinubu inherited a dead economy from Mohammadu Buhari. Soludo said this on Thursday while commenting on policies of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in an interview on Channels Television’s monitored in our newsroom. Soludo, while explaining his role in putting curbs on monetary…
Argentina winger, Ángel Di María has called time on his international career. The former Manchester United winger says he will officially stop playing for the Argentine National team after the upcoming Copa América next year. Di María made this known in a statement shared on his Instagram page on Thursday. The statement, written in Spanish…
