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U.S. President Donald Trump does not intend to publicly recognise the official results of the U.S. presidential election even after the Electoral College has declared Democrat Joe Biden as the president-elect, media reported. CNN cited a source close to the White House. At the same time, the channel reported some...

The leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau, has explained that over 300 students of the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara local government area of Katsina State were kidnapped to discourage Western education in Nigeria, as well as to promote Islam. In an audio message he posted on...

University of Ilorin (Unilorin) has won the global Artificial Intelligence (AI) competition anchored by Scale Early, Rapidly and Securely (SERS) of Carleton University, Canada, the institution’s management announced in Ilorin. Reacting to the development on Tuesday, the Director of Academic Planning, Unilorin, Prof. Isaac Adimula, said a total of 36...

  The domestic equities market opened for the week on Monday on a positive note with the All-Share Index appreciating by 1.73 per cent, amid buying interest in Dangote Cement and 25 other stocks. Specifically, the index which opened at 34,250.74 rose by 592.70 points or 1.73 per cent to...

Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, has said the abductors of at least 333 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, have contacted his government. He made this known when he briefed the President Muhammadu Buhari in Daura on Monday. This was contained in a statement by the President’s Senior Special...

 The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has produced over 120 different statistical reports with over 1000 indicators in 2020 in spite of COVID-19 disruptions. Mr Yemi Kale, the Statistician-General of the Federation, disclosed this on Monday in Akwanga, Nasarawa state at the annual meeting of the National Consultative Committee on...

 Fifty-three people have been trained in snail and fish farming to tackle unemployment and food shortage in Nigeria. Mrs Grace Taiwo, Director of Communications, Xploits Consulting Ltd., an environmental and sustainability company, said the training was done by the company in partnership with Access Bank. Taiwo said in a statement...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says there is need to review the mode of regulation of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) across the country. He said that this would provide an enabling environment for businesses to thrive. Osinbajo stated this while inaugurating the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) Convention...

The Academy of Public Health has awarded the President, African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, and three other persons as winners of its 2020 Distinguished Fellowship Award. In a statement from AfDB in Abuja on Monday, the other recipients were World Health Organisation (WHO)’s Tedros Ghebreyesus, Leith Greenslade...

  The Commissioner for Rural Development in Ogun, Mr Oludotun Taiwo, says the State Government had concluded plans to rehabilitate 207 rural roads in 2021. Taiwo stated this while defending the ministry’s 2021 budget proposal before the state’s House of Assembly Committee on Finance and Appropriation, on Monday in Abeokuta....