The World Health Organisation said Nigeria had significantly increased its national Tuberculosis case finding by 50 per cent in 2021 using innovative approaches. The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, made this known in her message in commemoration of World TB Day. World TB Day is marked yearly on March 24 to raise
Russian film seeks new home in exile
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From Paris to Berlin, Los Angeles to Istanbul, Russian filmmakers who fled after the invasion of Ukraine are slowly rebuilding their industry in exile. Many are happy just to be out. “Maybe I won’t be on any more red carpets, but at least I’m free,” said Mariya Shalaeva, a 42-year-old actress and director who left
Yahaya mourns ex-Gombe Speaker, Nasiru Nono
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Governor Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State has expressed sorrow over the demise of a former Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Nasiru Nono, who died on Thursday in a ghastly motor accident on the Abuja-Keffi Road. Yahaya expressed his grief over the sad news in a press statement by Ismaila Uba-Misilli, Director-General, Press Affairs
The United States military said it carried out precision airstrikes in eastern Syria on Thursday in response to a drone attack that killed one American contractor and injured five US service personnel. A Department of Defence statement said the US contractor had been killed and the others wounded “after a one-way unmanned aerial vehicle struck
The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has said that the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party is acting in contempt of a subsisting Court Order by referring him to the disciplinary committee of the party for alleged anti-party activities. Governor Ortom also said it was contemptuous of the party’s leadership to disregard the
Japan inflation slows to 3.1% in February
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Japan’s consumer prices rose 3.1 per cent in February from a year earlier, government data showed Friday, slowing from the four-decade highs seen in previous months. The figure, which excludes volatile fresh food, met market expectations and comes after the government introduced relief measures for soaring energy bills. It is the first deceleration in over
The United States President, Joe Biden, arrived Thursday in Canada where he would meet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and address parliament, with reports that a deal has been struck on managing undocumented migration across the neighbours’ long border. Trade, Canada’s anemic defence spending, and a potential international force to stabilize troubled Haiti are expected to
Determined to control attacks on schools across the country, the Commandant General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Ahmed Audi, has assured that its operatives will continue to provide the needed security for schools to enhance a safe teaching and learning environment. He gave the assurance at a one-day stakeholders workshop organised by the Corps,
The All Progressives Congress in Rivers State has debunked reports that the former Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, made remarks about the qualification of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu. Also, the party said Amaechi never linked Tinubu to drug trafficking within or outside Nigeria. The state APC Publicity Secretary, Darlington Nwauju, said this in a statement
The ruling All Progressives Congress has suspended its National Deputy Publicity Secretary, Murtala Yakubu, for alleged gross insubordination and anti-party activities among others. Yakubu, who is also a member of the National Working Committee of the APC, was axed by the executive members of his local constituency in Ward 1, Igalamela/Odolu Local Government Area of
Nigeria’s TB case finding rises by 50%, says WHO