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Ademola Adeleke has been sworn-in as the sixth democratically- elected governor of Osun State. He became the governor of the state having being administered the oaths of allegiance and office by the State Chief Judge, Justice Oyebola Adepele-Ojo at about 11:45am on Sunday at the Osogbo Township Stadium. The new governor, who entered the premises […]
Mubarak Isah Muhammad and Nazifi Muhammad Bala each received 20 lashes over their comic video of a Nigerian governor. Two TikTok comedians have been publicly whipped in Nigeria for making a video that a court in the northern Kano State ruled had defamed the state Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, according to a judicial spokesperson. Mubarak […]
In this file photo taken on February 28, 2022, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks on the Russia-Ukraine conflict at the General Assembly emergency special session in New York City. Kena Betancur / AFP UN chief Antonio Guterres urged rich and developing nations to stop the “finger pointing” at crunch climate talks on Thursday and reach […]
A picture of the billboard of the World Health Organization (WHO) The World Health Organization said Wednesday it is too early to lift the highest-level alert for the Covid crisis, with the pandemic remaining a global health emergency despite recent progress. The WHO’s emergency committee on Covid-19 met last week and concluded that the pandemic […]
Every 10 centimetres (four inches) on a man’s waist increases his risk of dying from prostate cancer by seven percent, according to a new study on Thursday — the largest ever conducted on a possible link between obesity and the disease. Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in men and the fourth […]
IF we are what we eat, according to the experts, can Nigeria’s dreary situations be attributed to our foods? Are we not pressing the wrong alarms on food scarcity? In 1826 when Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, a French lawyer, politician, and famous gastronome, wrote ”Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es”, […]
Sisi Yemmie has dropped a new recipe tutorial on how to cook Nigerian Fisherman Soup. This soup is laden with crabs, king prawns, gigantic snails, periwinkles, ngolo (whelks), and barracuda fish; if you like seafood, this is the soup for you. She says, “this soup is filled with lots of nutritious ingredients and it is a […]
L-R: Sales Manager, Procter & Gamble, Mr. Daniel Akanbi; Honorable Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Dame Pauline Tallen, OFR, KSG; with Permanent Secretary Women Affairs, Mrs. Ifeoma Anagbogu; at the official handover of Pampers® diapers donated by P&G as part of its P&G Rigakafi program to the ministry of women affairs in Abuja….. […]
India’s leading drug manufacturer, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals on Monday said it has cut price of its antiviral drug Favipiravir, under the brand name FabiFlu, for the treatment of patients with mild to moderate COVID-19, by 27 per cent to Rs 75 or about N380 per tablet. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals had launched FabiFlu last month at a price […]
Doctors under the aegis of the Medical Guild in Lagos State are set to begin three days warning strike from Monday, over issues that affects their safety and welfare. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Medical Guild is the Association of Medical Doctors under the employment of the Lagos State Government. Dr Oluwajimi […]
Nigeria has recorded 790 new COVID-19 cases, the highest in a single day, bringing its total infections to 26,484. This was confirmed on Wednesday night by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in a tweet via its official handle. Just like the previous day, the new cases were recorded across 20 states of the […]