Young health worker Masrat Farid has trekked long distances through remote Himalayan meadows in Indian-administered Kashmir to vaccinate nomadic herders in a campaign launched in June. Her challenge is not the treacherous terrain, she says, but persuading people to get inoculated against the coronavirus. “Everywhere we go, it seems rumours reach earlier than we do,…
Haitian President Jovenel Moise has been assassinated at his home, interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph said. A group of unidentified individuals attacked the private resident of Moise overnight on Wednesday and shot him dead, Joseph said The first lady was hospitalised in the attack. Moise had been ruling Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas,…
LAUTECH Hunters will attempt to shut down the FUTMINNA Transformers in Ogbomoso as matches in the Round of 16 of the 2021 Higher Institutions Football League (HiFL) kick off today across four centres among the eight teams. It would be recalled that LAUTECH Hunters qualified from Group C alongside FUTA Tigers and UNILAG Marines while…
Eminent Nigerians and some foreigners on Tuesday paid glowing tributes to the late Founder/Leader of Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Prophet Temitope Balogun (T. B.) Joshua. The popular televangelist died on June 5, according to the church, a week to his 58th birthday on June 12. The event was held on the church premises…
The Kogi State Government on Tuesday said it had recorded about 75 to 80 per cent success of the recent data capturing exercise of all private schools in the state. The State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mr Wemi Jones, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Lokoja on Tuesday. Jones said that…
Ahead of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) audit coming up by first quarter of 2022, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) on Saturday joined forces with critical stakeholders in aviation emergency rescue operations to conduct a live aeronautic simulation of an air crash, which occurred at the Mafoluku area of Oshodi in Lagos, a…
Environmentalists on Monday called for an end to the frequent oil leaks at the Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC) oil fields in Tein community, Biseni, in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa. Newsmen reports that the environmentalists, under the auspices of Environment Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), made the call in its field…
The Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, yesterday inaugurated the state’s Economic Advisory Council. The high-worth council was inaugurated virtually. While inaugurating the Council, the governor challenged members to “guide the state into prosperity,” tapping into the abundant human and mineral resources available to her. He said the members were carefully selected based on their…
The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has commended President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly on the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill by the National Assembly. OPEC Secretary-General, Dr Mohammad Barkindo, gave the commendation at the ongoing 20th Nigeria Oil and Gas Conference (NOG) in Abuja, on Tuesday. The theme of the conference…
