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A painting by Pablo Picasso that was stolen nine years ago during a heist at a Greek gallery has been recovered. On Monday, police in Athens said Picasso’s Woman’s Head had been found along with a 1905 painting of a windmill by Piet Mondrian. Both were taken, along with a third artwork, during an elaborate […]
Authorities in Hong Kong are using the national security law that China imposed a year ago to crack down on legitimate dissent, “decimate” the territory’s freedoms and create a climate of fear, Amnesty International said in a report released on Tuesday. The broadly-worded National Security Law (NSL) punishes activities deemed subversion, terrorism, collusion with foreign […]
The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu is targetting 25,000 residents as beneficiaries of the relaunched popular “Jigi-Bola” programme, just as he announced that Blindness and Ear Impairment Prevention treatment will be covered under the initiative. Sanwo-Olu, represented by his Deputy, Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, at the programme re-launched 21 years after it was first initiated, […]
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, on Tuesday, described the defection of some of the party’s governors as an effort by the ruling APC to rig the 2023 General Elections. Mr Secondus’ statement is coming on the heels of the defection of the Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, after weeks […]
The Minister of State, Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, said that Nigeria has the highest number of Out-of-School Children in sub-Sahara Africa. Mr Nwajiuba stated this during the inauguration of “Better Education Service Delivery For All (BESDA)”, in Katsina on Monday. He announced that Nigeria had an estimated 10,193,918 children out school. According to him, “the current […]
Winifred Bosa Following a 70-year effort, China has been awarded a malaria-free certification from WHO – a notable feat for a country that reported 30 million cases of the disease annually in the 1940s. “Today we congratulate the people of China on ridding the country of malaria,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “Their […]
The Coalition of Northern Groups has said that the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), is not the end of the Biafran agitation. In a statement by its spokesman Abdul-Azeez Suleiman on Tuesday, the group called on the Federal Government to allow the full course of justice to […]
Niger state government has sacked no fewer than 758 civil servants for their fraudulent acts and misconduct in violation of extant rules. The Chairman, Niger state Civil Service Commission, Shehu Galadima Said out of the figure a medical doctor and five accountants are involved. He stated that a total of five thousand, two hundred and […]
A Stakeholders Round Table, first of its kind has been put together by the Nigerian National Mirror Committee (NMC) of the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) Technical Committee (TC) on the subject (ISO/TC 267) under the auspices of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) as part of efforts to promote facility management practices in Nigeria. […]
* Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria(FAAN) has appealed to airlines, passengers and other stakeholders at the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos to bear with the authority, as some facilities at the airport are functioning below capacity. An online statement signed by the General Manager, Corporate Affairs, […]