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The New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, has called out President Muhammadu Buhari over the ₦1.4bn vehicle gift to Niger republic by the Federal Government amidst Nigeria’s deteriorating security situation.
Energy

Muhammadu Buhari orders mass production of solar cells to boost power supply

August 5, 2022
The National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking In Persons (NAPTIP) has lauded efforts of collaborating agencies on awareness and tackling human trafficking and other crimes.
Nigeria

NAPTIP: We’ve no holding facilities for victims in Anambra

August 3, 2022
An angry President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday expressed disappointment with the intelligence collapse in the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Kuje, where terrorists attacked Tuesday, freeing a large number of inmates.
Nigeria

President Buhari: I am disappointed with the intelligence system at Kuje prison

July 6, 2022
About a year before Zimbabwe's general elections, where President Emmerson Mnangagwa will seek re-election for a second and last term, the country's insult law is increasingly being used.
Africa

Zimbabwean journalist charged for allegedly insulting president in a tweet

June 7, 2022
Nigeria

Minister: How we bust Boko Haram cells in Abuja

June 3, 2022
Nigeria

Expert urge mothers to present newborn babies for sickle cell screening

May 10, 2022
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Tennis

Wimbledon champion Boris Becker jailed over ‘bankruptcy’

April 30, 2022
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed attends his last campaign event ahead of Ethiopia's parliamentary and regional elections scheduled for June 21, in Jimma, Ethiopia, June 16, 2021. REUTERS-Tiksa Negeri
Africa

Ethiopian officials accused of extorting Tigrayan detainees

February 10, 2022
FILE PHOTO: Rows of solar panels at the Toms River Solar Farm which was built on an EPA Superfund site in Toms River, New Jersey, U.S., 26 May, 2021. Picture taken May 26, 2021. REUTERS/Dane Rhys/File Photo
Energy

Joe Biden administration eases Donald Trump-era solar tariffs

February 4, 2022
The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified by peer review.
Science

Study: Placenta may protect fetus from coronavirus

February 3, 2022
The Federal Bureau of Prisons Correctional Complex in Butner, N.C, is pictured on April 1, 2014. Advocates are pushing for protections for vulnerable inmates amid the coronavirus pandemic.
World

U.S. federal prisons on lockdown after deadly clashes at Texas penitentiary

February 1, 2022
A ransomware attack last week has left an Albuquerque area jail without access to its camera feeds and rendered automatic door mechanisms unusable.
Cybersecurity

Ransomware attack take New Mexico jail offline, leaving inmates in lockdown

January 11, 2022
The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China, is seen in an illustration released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. January 29, 2020. Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM/CDC/Handout via REUTERS
World

Report: Omicron less vicious than other variants

December 19, 2021
Justice Binta Nyako of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on Tuesday ordered the remand of fugitive leader of the indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, in the custody of the department of State services (DSS).
Nigeria

Ohanaeze youth wing reinstates suspended leader, insists on Nnamdi Kanu’s release

November 20, 2021
Pfizer’s antiviral pill is highly effective at preventing people who catch COVID-19 from becoming seriously ill, the company said today in a press release. A clinical trial showed that the pill, which has the brand name Paxlovid, cut the risk of hospitalization and death by 89 per cent for adults at high risk of developing the severe disease when it was given within three days of symptoms appearing.
World

Pfizer says its antiviral pill reduces hospitalizations, deaths from coronavirus

November 5, 2021
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