Expert Urges FG To Engage Professionals In Power, Oil And Gas
The Managing Director, Ariboil Company Ltd., Mr Stephen Aribeana, has urged the Federal Government to engage the right expertise to solve the challenges confronting the power, oil, and gas sectors in the country. Aribeana, one of the exhibitors at the ongoing 2022 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), made the call in an interview on Tuesday in […]
Tanzanian Star, Zuchu Emerges ‘Spotify Equal Africa Artiste’ For May
Spotify, a musical online streaming platform has announced Tanzanian Afropop and Bongo Flava artiste Zuchu as its EQUAL Africa Artiste for the month of May. Phiona Okumu, Spotify’s head of music in Sub-Saharan Africa made the announcement in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos. Okumu said Zuhura Othman Soud whose stage name is Zuchu was born into a musical family and is […]
UN Sec-Gen. Calls For International Support For Borno
The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has urged the international community to support humanitarian action in Borno, currently recovering from insurgency. Gutteres made the call on Tuesday in Maiduguri while rounding off his visit to the state where he interacted with displaced persons, repentant Boko-Haram members and government officials led by Gov. Babagana Zulum. Read Also: […]
2023: Vote For Right People, Amaechi Urges Electorate
Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, has urged the Nigerian electorate to vote the right people into positions of authority, to salvage the country from its current challenges. Amaechi, who was a Special Guest of Honor at the 2022 World Press Freedom Day celebrations in Uyo on Tuesday, urged Nigerians to always hold politicians accountable, […]
JDPC Trains Plateau Residents On Alternatives Against Violence
The Justice Development and Peace Commission (JDPC) of the Catholic Diocese of Pankshin in Plateau, has trained 172 residents on some alternative techniques against violence in communities in 2021. Rev. Fr. Basil Kassam, the Coordinator of JDPC in the Diocese disclosed this in an interview on Monday in Jos. According to him, the training, which […]
Liverpool Fight Back To Reach Champions League Final
Liverpool survived a first-half scare to reach the Champions League final with a 3-2 win at Villarreal on Tuesday that secured a 5-2 aggregate victory after the night had threatened to turn sourfor Juergen Klopp’s side. The visitors fell 2-0 down with an insipid first-half performance before fighting back with three goals in a 12-minute […]
Buhari Meets APC Presidential Aspirant, Bola Tinubu At Aso Villa
President Muhammadu Buhari has met behind closed door with former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. One of the President’s Personal Photographers, Mr Sunday Aghaeze, confirmed this in pictorial reports on Tuesday night, in Abuja. The agenda of the meeting between the president and the national leader of the All Progressives […]
We Can’t Explain Why ASUU Is On Strike, FG Claims
The federal government of Nigeria has claimed that up until now, it was yet to ascertain the reasons that caused the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) which has now entered its 7th week. This was as it said universities founded and being funded by state governments have no business joining […]
2 Confirmed Dead In Central China Building Collapse
No fewer than two people have died in a building that collapsed in central China, the official Xinhua news agency confirmed on Tuesday, four days into a rescue operation searching for dozens who are still missing. Africa Today News, New York recalls that the commercial building in Changsha city, Hunan province which housed apartments, a […]
Mysterious Liver Disease Leaves 3 Children Dead In Indonesia
No fewer than three children in Indonesia have been confirmed dead from a mysterious liver disease, the country’s health ministry have disclosed, raising to at least four the global death toll of a fatal ailment puzzling doctors from the US to Asia. This severe strain of acute hepatitis has been identified in nearly 170 children […]
Russia Accuses Israel Of Supporting Ukraine ‘Neo-Nazis’
Russia’s foreign ministry has accused Israel of supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine, a move which has now escalated a row that began when Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed Adolf Hitler had Jewish origins. Africa Today News, New York had earlier reported that Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Monday asserted that Lavrov’s comment was an […]
Biden Reacts To Supreme Court Overturning Of Abortion Rights
The President of the USA, Joe Biden has weighed in on the leaked draft Supreme Court opinion showing the panel’s conservative majority of justices is on course to overturn nearly 50 years of established abortion rights in America. According to Biden; ‘It concerns me a great deal that, after 50 years, we’re going to decide […]