Month: December 2020
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Dynamic OF Nature & Humanity by Adewale Kayode Joseph
Boom! It is 12 0′ clock twenty twentyJanuary 1st splendour parties plentyProphecies emanating from the sacred alters Unalloyed they call themEvents in the golden year revealedHossanah jubilation rent the cross domicileUn-observing of the coming dynamics. The heavenly bodies remains the sameClimate change becomes a clicheOf meteorologist oddity and relicsSummer on a transitional expectationsFor the reign…
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COVID-19: Countries Ban UK Flight Over New Strain of Virus
European countries banned flights from the UK on Sunday and the WHO called for stronger containment measures as the British government warned that a potent new strain of the virus was “out of control”. As the World Health Organization urged its European members to strengthen measures against a new variant of Covid-19 circulating in Britain,…
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Five Takeaways From Safe Return of 344 Kankara Schoolboys
By Garba Shehu The safe return of all 344 boys kidnapped from the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, in Katsina State would be celebrated in any decent part of the world where empathy overrides cheap politics. And for a good cause. The outpouring of sighs, cries of relief and joy over the return of the…
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COVID-19 Vaccines: WHO Warns Against Comparing National Approaches
As governments move to secure COVID-19 vaccines for their populations, choosing these treatments should not be viewed as “some kind of nationalistic footrace”, with some countries winning and others losing, a senior official with the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. Dr. Mike Ryan, Director of Emergencies, was responding to a question about public concern…
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Just In: Nigerian Army, Other Security Agents Rescued 80 Islamiyyah Students Kidnapped in Katsina
Troops of Nigerian Army and other Security Agents Rescued 80 abducted pupils of Hizburrahim Islamiyya, an Islamic school in Mahuta, Dandume Local Government Area of Katsina State. In a statement gathered today Sunday from a staff of Hizburrahim Islamiyya school, the students partaking in Islamic Maulud at Unguwan – Alkasim Dandume to Mahuta ran into…
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Strike: NANS Issues Fresh Deadline To FG, ASUU
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has vowed to take strategic actions should the Federal Government fail to resolve its impasse with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, which has led to the closure of public universities for more than eight months. The President of NANS Comrade Sunday Asefon, who addressed a press…
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U.S based Nigerian Doctor Allegedly Strangled Wife To Death, Attempt To Kill 2 Sons, Before Committing Suicide
A Nigerian Doctor, Benjamin Okigbo and wife, Theresa, based in Texas in the United States of America, were found dead at their Greatwood home on Friday morning, December 18. The discovery was made around 10:05 am at the Greatwood Subdivision in the 1500 block of Brookstone Lane. Police said the case is being investigated as…
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Meet Nigeria’s First Female Train Driver, Serah Abiara
Nigeria’s First Female Train Driver, Serah Abiara 📸 Daily Sun
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NIN: Prominent Lawyer Urges Court To Stop Govt From Disconnecting SIM Cards
Prominent Nigerian Lawyer and former Vice-President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Mr Monday Ubani, has asked a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos to stop the Nigerian government and Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, from disconnecting all SIM cards not linked to the National Identity Number, NIN. Ubani, in the suit, argued that the directive…
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How Military Carry Out Rescue Operation of Kankara School Boys
The Nigerian military on Saturday made some disclosures on how it carried out the rescue operation of the 344 schoolboys kidnapped from their school in Kankara, Katsina State, on Dec 11. It disclosed that while kinetic and non-kinetic approaches were used to ensure all the boys were rescued unhurt, there was resistance from the abductors…