archiveAugust 6, 2021

Orji Kalu Foundation on Thursday in Abuja announced scholarships for 2022 academic year to 650 students to study medicine and surgery in 12 selected Nigerian universities. A statement signed by Mrs Jemima kalu, Executive Secretary, Orji Uzor Kalu Foundation listed the 12 universities for the scholarship . They are University...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday that weekly deaths from COVID-19 in Africa had reached a record peak in the week that ended on Aug. 1. Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, disclosed this in a briefing to Correspondents at the UN headquarters, in New...

The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday reported 566 additional COVID-19 infections due to a surge in the spread of the Delta variant in the country. The NCDC, which made this known via its website on Friday Morning, also stated that 11 COVID-19 related deaths were recorded as...

CNN has dismissed three employees for entering its New York headquarters without being vaccinated for protection against the Coronavirus (COVID-19), according to a memo from the cable news network’s president. “In the past week, we have been made aware of three employees who were coming to the office unvaccinated,” said...

  says new president should be in his sixties Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), might have ruled out a former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and a former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, from the 2023 presidential run, because they would be in their 70s...

A Magistrate’s Court in Yola, Adamawa State, on Thursday, remanded the son of late former President Musa Yar’Adua, Aminu Yar’Adua, 36, in prison for allegedly killing four persons in an auto crash in the State. Yar’Adua, who is a student of the American University of Nigeria (AUN) Yola, was charged...