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Written by MaryGift Sunday on 18 January 2021
Troops swiftly regained a military base from combined forces of Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Boko Haram at the weekend. The terrorists' wielding machine-guns mounted on trucks, seized Marte – a town 93 kilometres from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital – and the military base there on Friday night. Ground troops, backed […]
WAFU U-17 final: Lawan pledges handsome reward for Golden Eaglets
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has pledged to handsomely reward the Golden Eaglets if they win the WAFU Zone B Under-17 championship in Togo. Lawan, who spoke to NAN through his Special Adviser (SA) on Sports, Sani Fema, on Sunday night, stated that the team deserved to be rewarded for not crashing out at the […]
The United States and several European governments have demanded the release of opposition politician Alexei Navalny from Russian detention. Mr Navalny, 44, was detained by police soon after his flight from Germany landed in Moscow on Sunday. He was returning to the country five months after he was almost killed in a nerve-agent attack he […]
US braces for potential violence ahead of Joe Biden inauguration
State authorities have beefed up security over the weekend ahead of Democrat Joe Biden's swearing-in ceremony on January 20 and out of concern over potential armed protests on Sunday. Authorities are hoping to avoid a repeat of the deadly Capitol Hill violence by President Donald Trump's supporters on January 6. With the Federal Bureau of […]
All UK travel corridors, which allow arrivals from some countries to avoid having to quarantine, have now closed. Travellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, also have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry. The test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and […]
Uganda election: Bobi Wine 'fearful for life' after Museveni win
Uganda's main opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine says his life is being threatened following Thursday's election which saw Yoweri Museveni win a sixth elected term. The singer-turned-politician told the BBC that he rejected the results "with the contempt they deserve". He alleged there had been a lot of irregularities but Mr Museveni called it Uganda's […]
Public, Private schools reopen amid fear of COVID-19
ALL is set for schools to resume educational activities today for the first and second-term academic calendar across the country. The Federal Government, through the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 Control, announced in December that schools should not reopen for the second term, following the second wave of Coronavirus. But, states last week forced […]
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 1,444 new cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The NCDC disclosed this on its official website late on Sunday. According to the public health agency, the new infections has taken the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 110,387, which includes 89,317 discharged cases […]
Governor Zulum approves N624m for Borno students
AS schools in Borno reopen today, Governor Babagana Zulum has approved the release of N624 million for the payment of scholarship to students in tertiary institutions. The Commissioner for Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Babagana Mustapha, revealed this in a statement issued yesterday in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Mustapha said 23,776 students […]
The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has expressed support for Federal Government's recent plan to borrow money from unclaimed dividends and dormant bank accounts' balances to fund the 2021 budget deficit. The commission's support came on the heels of the Finance Act 2020 recently signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari, which provides that government can […]
Bandits abduct passengers along Ilesa-Akure Expressway