Former US secretary of state, John Kerry described the absence of the American government at a major climate change summit in Paris Tuesday as a ‘disgrace’. About 60 world leaders and hundreds of ministers, company bosses, and environmentalists gathered for the One Planet Summit called by French President Emmanuel Macron after Donald Trump’s decision to […]
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The Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, has assured Nigeria’s commitment to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) in line with a presidential declaration on UHC in 2014. Adewole stated this during an event commemorating the 5th World Universal Health Coverage themed: “Health For All”, in Abuja on Tuesday. He said Nigeria has over the years
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India has placed a nationwide ban on television advertisements for condoms during prime time hours, citing rules prohibiting “vulgar” content and concerns over children viewing the salacious material. The information and broadcasting ministry ordered India’s estimated 900 television channels to restrict condom commercials to between 10 pm and 6 am, threatening repercussions if the ads
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National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, on Tuesday, assured that he would relate with National Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Uche Secondus, without rancour. He gave the assurance in a statement in Abuja, congratulating Secondus on his election at the party´s national convention on Saturday. The APC chairman tasked the
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Pastor Nicholas Uagbor of Miracle Centre International has warned the controversial Daddy Freeze over his criticism against clergymen, stating that he may die before the New Year. Pastor Nicholas stated this following Daddy Freeze’s comment to a post by Pastor Adeboye’s son on Instagram. Pastor Nicholas wrote: “The way this guy is going, he may
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A 10-year-old girl (name withheld) has voiced out that her dad is responsible for her pregnancy. As the case came up before the Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, the suspect, Kenneth Abuya, was granted bail in the sum of N500,000. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs B.O. Osunsanmi, also directed that Abuya should produce two sureties in
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The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) sealed five filling stations on Tuesday, in Imo state during a monitoring exercise. The filling stations were sealed for selling against the directive of the Federal Government of N145 per litre of fuel. The team led by the Acting Zonal Manager operations Ernest Chukwu says apart from selling above
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Previously undetected group of Russian-language hackers silently stole nearly 10 million dollars from at least 18 mostly the United States and Russian banks in recent years by targeting interbank transfer systems, a Moscow-based security firm said. Group-IB warned that the attacks, which began 18 months ago and allowed money to be stolen from banks’ Automated
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Chinwe, 35, has disclosed that she had aborted several pregnancies for her husband, a Hotel manager, Oluwafemi Ajadi. Oluwafemi, who had filed in Agege court to end his 16-year marriage to wife over infidelity, said he is no longer interested in the Marriage and that his wife was arrogant and a troublemaker. “My wife is
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Egyptian forward, Mohamed Salah, has been voted the BBC African footballer of the year The prolific forward has been recognised for his sterling performance for the Egyptian national team and Liverpool this season Mohamed Salah has beaten off competition from the likes of Sadio Mane, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Victor Moses and Naby Keita to claim 2017
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