The Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), Oyo State Chapter, has urged the Ministry of Sports and the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to immortalise the late Green Eagles midfield player, Mudasiru Lawal. In a statement issued on Tuesday in Ibadan and jointly signed by Niyi Alebiosu and Adewale Tijani, its Chairman and Secretary respectively, the…
By Moses Emorinken, Abuja The Federal Government Tuesday disclosed that in few days, it would have utilised 100 percent of the nearly 4 million vaccines it received through the COVAX facility. It dispelled rumours that the COVID-19 vaccine causes the site of the arm in which a person is immunised, to begin to magnetise objects…
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…
