ESWATINI is taking a bold step to transform its healthcare system by partnering with Belarus, aiming to improve access to essential medicines and facilitate knowledge exchange between healthcare professionals from both countries. Historic agreement An Eswatini delegation led by Prime…
ESTHER Kimani, a 2022 YouthADAPT winner, has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation by the Royal Academy of Engineering. The ceremony took place on June 13 in Nairobi, Kenya. YouthADAPT, sponsored by the African Development Bank…
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mike Ozekhome, says Thursday’s Supreme Court judgment on Local Government Council Autonomy made it clear that the Federation Account Allocation Committee will not send funds to local government areas headed by Caretaker Committee Chairmen. Ozekhome…
…….donates Gas Cylinders to vulnerable women By Inusa Ndahi, Maiduguri THE Great Green Wall (GGW) has planted 3,000 seedlings in three local government areas of Konduga, Jere and Maiduguri Metropolitan Council to mitigate increase in environmental degradation. It also donated…
FOUR migrants have died in the English Channel after their boat overturned, according to the French Coastguard. More than 60 people were on the boat going to the northern French coast near Boulogne-sur-Mer, where several people were reported as being…
· Warns against ‘unpalatable cocktail of misleading, conflicting judgments’ · Says process already activated to punish ‘despicable and odious conducts’. By Jane Uyi Orobosa THE Chief Justice of Nigerian (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, has vowed to deal ruthlessly with…
THE President of Capital Market Academics of Nigeria, Prof. Uche Uwaleke, says the ECOWAS single currency if actualiseed, will facilitate free trade within the sub-region. Uwaleke, who is also the Director, Institute of Capital Market at the Nasarawa State University,…
Burkina Faso’s junta has announced a ban on homosexual acts, making it the latest African state to crack down on same-sex relations despite strong opposition from Western powers. Homosexuality was frowned upon in the socially conservative West African state, but…
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has held consultations with Organised Labour in furtherance of his engagements with critical stakeholders toward arriving at a new national minimum wage. The Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, disclosed this while briefing State House…
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the remand of former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, in Kuje Correctional Centre pending the hearing of his bail application. The presiding judge, Justice James Omotosho, gave the order after Mamman…
