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Rivers State Governor, NYESOM WIKE says his administration has successfully completed the State cassava processing factory that will buy-off cassava tubers from 3000 Rivers farmers regularly. Governor WIKE who disclosed this when members of Management and Board of the Rivers State Cassava Processing company presented processed cassava flour to him said the facility will be […]
Russia says it would consider United States President JOE BIDEN’s proposed summit for President VLADIMIR PUTIN hours after the call. Kremlin spokesman DMITRY PESKOV said it is early to talk about the meeting in terms of specifics, but promised to study the idea. The White House said President BIDEN made the proposal on the phone […]
Calls for rescue of missing Chibok schoolgirls from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok have continued after seven years of their abduction. In a statement to mark the anniversary, Amnesty International blamed the Federal Government for failure to learn from the Chibok attack and protect school children from attacks. Director Amnesty International Nigeria, OSAI […]
Nigeria has been ranked first in Africa and the sixth globally among the 30-high tuberculosis, TB, burden countries of the world. According to estimates from WHO global report 2020, tuberculosis kills 18 Nigerians every hour, 47 Nigerians develop active TB every hour, while 7 of them are children. According to a global tuberculosis report, 2020 […]
The President of Omoku Youth Federation, Ambassador HOPESON MEZIEUZOR has alleged that one KEN EBIRI has declared himself leader of IPOB in Omoku as well as leader of youth body. Ambassador MEZIEUZOR claimed that the CDC’S, chiefs and youths chaised the sessationist group out of Omoku. He said he had alerted security agencies of the […]
China has told the United States to stop playing with fire over Taiwan. China also lodged a complaint after Washington issued guidelines that will enable U.S. officials to meet more freely with officials from the island that China claims as its own. The U.S. State Department announced a decision to deepen relations with self-ruled Taiwan […]
Some customers of Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution, P.H.E.D. PLC have concluded plans for a protest today to the company’s headquarters over repeated cases of alleged over-billing of customers. The electricity consumers said all efforts to interface with PHED officials to solve several issues affecting them had yielded no results, forcing them to take their complaints […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested former Imo State Governor, ROCHAS OKOROCHA. The Head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC, WILSON UWUJAREN, confirmed to journalists that OKOROCHA was arrested in Abuja. UWUJAREN reportedly declined to comment on the reason for the arrest of the Imo West Senator. Source[Punch] Edited by George […]
Almost one million people face severe hunger in northern Mozambique, where hundreds of thousands have fled Islamist militant attacks. The United Nations food agency, the World Food Programme, WFP, said this was because Islamic State-linked insurgents last month attacked Palma, a town in Cabo Delgado province next to gas projects under development by companies including […]
