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With Covid-19 infections still raging across the country and on the rise in multiple states, colleges, universities and vocational programs are
China vowed to retaliate Wednesday after the United States ordered the closure of its consulate in Houston, a move that further inflamed tensions between the two superpowers.
Wang Wenbin, a spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry, said China was notified Tuesday that it would have to close the consulate within 72 hours. In a regular daily news briefing, he described the action as an “unprecedented escalation” and said China would “react with firm countermeasures” if the United States does not revoke the decision.
State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said in a statement that the closure was “to protect American intellectual property …
According to data compiled by John Hopkins University, no fewer than 409,000 confirmed cases were recorded in the state as of Wednesday morning.
This is 1,000 cases higher than those of New York, the former national epicentre, which had no fewer than 408,000 infections since the outbreak of the virus.
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The U.S. is the worst-affected country, with no fewer than 3.9 million confirmed cases and 142,090 fatalities.
For the first time on Tuesday, …
A global communications agency, Burson Cohn and Wolfe (BCW) ranked President Muhammadu Buhari as the most followed sub-Saharan African leader on Twitter.
In its newly released Twiplomacy findings, President Muhammadu Buhari had over 3,121,169 followers.
According to the study, Buhari is by far the most followed African leader ahead of Paul Kagame, the President of Rwanda with 1,910,159 followers.
It also says that Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa has seen the biggest growth over the past year with his followers reaching 1,386,849.
However, the Twiplomacy study …
Following his meeting with the ECOWAS Special Envoy, and former President Goodluck Jonathan, President Muhammadu Buhari will Thursday depart for Bamako, the capital of Mali on a one-day visit.
This was contained in a statement signed by his Spokesman, Femi Adesina on Wednesday.
The statement added that Buhari and some ECOWAS leaders led by the Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the sub-regional organisation, President Issoufou Mahamadou of Niger Republic, agreed to meet in Mali.
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The purpose of the meeting is to engage …
The terrorists confirmed that their victims were humanitarian staff of non-governmental organisations.
Five men, with their faces covered, stood behind the abductees and shot them after making comments.
Speaking in a message, one of the terrorists said: “to the infidels who are using you to cheat and turn our people into unbelievers”.
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He declared that organisations don’t regard their employees and were just using them to achieve their aims.
“That’s why whenever
Minister of Employment and Productivity, Chris Ngige, found an opportunity to ‘scatter’ Honourable Abiodun James Faleke, who is the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Finance when he appeared at the National Assembly to defend himself against allegations of abuse of office.
During a House committee investigative hearing this week, Ngige made it clear to Faleke that he was becoming quite uncomfortable with some of his grilling and choice of words; and the diss began.
…“As for Faleke, they say he is up to 60 years of age, I don’t know,” Ngige told the committee while sifting through
The man, who claimed to be Chief Mayegun of Afo, was nabbed with fake ballot papers in favor of a PDP aspirant not mentioned.
He was carrying a bag containing the ballot papers when some party members stopped him.
The party members descended on him before he was rescued by the security at the premises of the primary.
The suspect denied any knowledge of possessing fake papers.…
Towns and villages in the riverside communities of Okitipupa, Ilaje, Ese-Odo and Irele, all in Ondo South, have been in darkness for 10 years running.
The Benin Electricity Distribution Company(BEDC) appears unable to rectify the problem, as it offers some scant hope.
BEDC said that the acute power supply limitation and the inability to connect the communities in to the national grid was due to a damaged breaker at the Ondo 132/33KV Station.
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Mrs Kunbi Labiyi, the Chief State Head, Ondo and Ekiti States, gave the clarification in a statement …
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has asked the Executive arm of Government to work on the estimates for the 2021 budget to ensure its timely presentation to the National Assembly by the end of September this year.
Lawan stated this in his remarks after referring President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2021 – 2023 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper request to the Senate Committees on Finance; and National Planning for further legislative work.
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The Senate President while charging both Committees to engage the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National …
The Kano State Executive Council, has cancelled all traditional Eid-el-Kabir festivities, to consolidate the successes it had recorded in the war against COVID-19 in the state.
The state’s Commissioner for Information, Mr Muhammed Garba, made this disclosure in a statement made available to newsmen on Wednesday.
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“The council, after deliberations at its weekly meeting held on Tuesday at Africa House, Government House, Kano, agreed that the conduct of Eid congregational prayers across the state, would be under strict observance of safety protocols.
“The congregational prayers will be strictly
Governor Babagana Umara Zulum extolled automobile spare-parts’ traders, mostly Igbos, for their courage in not running away from Borno State and remaining in business despite the boko haram challenges since 2009.
The Governor gave the commendation on Tuesday, when he visited ‘Bola’, Maiduguri’s most popular market for automobile parts.
Zulum had recently constructed roads in the market to end difficulties faced by the traders and their customers.
The Governor, trekked for 30 minutes through the market, assured the Igbo traders that his administration would soon come up with a package to boost their business in the state.
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