About 44,000 Nigerian drug users who exchange needles and syringes in groups while ingesting drugs are responsible for the spread of HIV in the country. Dr Gambo Aliyu, Director-General, National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) made the disclosure in Abuja on Wednesday. He said the exchange of needles and syringes by drug users…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has urged the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to take proactive steps aimed at preventing coups in the sub-region. According to a statement by Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, the vice president said this on Wednesday at a virtual Extraordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of…
While the alliterative theme of this year’s BRICS Summit is “cooperation for continuity, consolidation and consensus”, conversations are likely to be dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, security and Afghanistan. For the second year running, Thursday’s annual gathering of the world’s leading emerging economies – including Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (comprising the acronym…
The hillocks dotting the coal hub of Chandrapur are a green oasis in the central Indian region pockmarked with coal mines, where even rain puddles are black, and a coal-fed thermal power plant belches smoke into the sky. Yet locals live in fear of these hills – dunes formed with the sand removed from coal…
Hundreds of millions of children in South Asia are suffering because their schools have been closed due to coronavirus but they lack online devices and connections for remote learning, UNICEF says. Authorities should prioritise the safe reopening of schools because, even before the pandemic, nearly 60 percent of children in the densely populated region were…
The crisis over the Value Added Tax deepened on Wednesday with the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, ordering companies based in the state to start paying VAT to the state government. Wike gave the order during a stakeholders’ meeting in Port Harcourt with representatives of Shell Petroleum Development Company and other oil companies as well…
THE Benue and Ondo state governments have slammed the leadership of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, over its comment on the anti-open grazing law. The National Secretary of the association, Mr Saleh Alhassan, had called on the National Assembly to intervene and stop attempts by some state governors to enact anti-open grazing laws targeted at Fulani…
The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association has said that a cow could cost up to N2 million in Lagos State if the anti-grazing bill is passed into law in the state. Zonal Secretary of Myetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association in the South West, during a one-day public hearing organised by the state House of Assembly…
The Lagos State lawmakers have explained some provisions of the anti-open grazing bill to stakeholders at the public hearing held on the proposed bill. The Speaker of the House, Dr Mudashiru Obasa, who was represented by the Deputy Speaker, Wasiu Eshinlokun-Sanni, in his address, stated that the bill would address the tension generated by the…
