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The U.S. Government said on Friday that it had donated 2.9 million insecticide-treated bed nets worth 8.1 million Dollars for distribution in Sokoto State. The U.S. Embassy in Abuja said in a statement that the nets, donated through President Muhammadu Buhari Malaria Initiative, would be distributed in the 23 local government areas of the state. The Embassy said the U.S. government had also provided additional 1.5 million Ddollars for logistics, including transportation of the nets, community mobilisation and training of health workers. It said said the nets and support for the distribution were gift from the American People to the…

Nigeria had the second largest HIV epidemic in 2016, with over 196,000 adolescents representing 10 per cent of the global burden said to be living with HIV/AIDS, according to a World Health Report. The report was given by Mrs Esther Samuel, The Chief Matron, Lagos State Ministry of Health, at a programme by a Non-governmental Organisation (NGO) Lisa Demi Project, in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Lisa Demi Project, initiated in the U.K., seeks address the sexual health issues through Talks, Counselling and Entertainment among others. The programme, held at the Teslim Balogun Stadium Surulere, Lagos…

Do not Disturb code appears to be gaining some momentum in Nigeria as close to 10 million subscribers had activated the service. Prof. Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), said this in Abuja on Thursday at the 82nd Edition of Telecom Consumer Parliament with the theme “Value added Service and its Benefits (VAS). According to him, when NCC kicked off the campaign in March, it was to empower the Nigerian consumers and protect them from unwholesome practices by telecommunication providers and operators. “Specifically , we had multitude of complaints on unsolicited text messages, and daily consumers were…

Nigerian state governors on Thursday approved the release of $1 billion from the country’s excess oil account to the government to help fight the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency. The account holds foreign reserves from excess earnings from sales of crude. It currently totals $2.3 billion, according to Nigeria’s accountant general. “We are pleased with the federal government achievements in the insurgency war and in that vein state governors have approved that the sum of $1 billion be taken from the excess crude account by the federal government to fight the insurgency war to its conclusion,” said Godwin Obaseki, Edo state…

When soldiers burst into her village in southwest Cameroon last month with guns blazing, small farmer Eta Quinta, 32, raced into the forest with three of her children. “I found a canoe and I used it to cross over with my kids, not knowing where my husband and my (other) two kids are,” she told Reuters across the border in Nigeria, where thousands of English-speaking Cameroonians have fled in past weeks. What began last year as peaceful protests by Anglophone activists against perceived marginalisation by Cameroon’s Francophone-dominated elite has become the gravest challenge yet to President Paul Biya, who is…

The Task Force set up by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Niger to monitor the sale and distribution of petroleum products says it has sealed two filling stations for selling above government approved pump price. The Commandant of the Corps, Mr Philip Ayuba, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Minna. Ayuba said ECE filling station was sealed for selling above the approved price, while Beji filling station was sanctioned for diverting the product to black markets and also selling above the approved rate. He said that the…

Another ferry operator has been killed by gunmen on the Yenagoa-Akassa waterway in Bayelsa, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The incident occurred barely 24 hours after the killing of a boat operator on the Sangana-Igbemotoru waterway on December 13. Community sources told a NAN correspondent in Yenagoa that the latest killing took place at Okobotuo, near Akassa in the Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa early on Thursday. The victim of the attack was identified as the former chairman of the Akassa Unit of the Nigerian Maritime Workers Union. His name was given simply as Mr Suku. Confirming…

A state lawmaker in Kentucky, US, Rep. Dan Johnson, has committed suicide after report emerged that he sexually assaulted a woman when she was 17. Reports say the 57-year-old lawmaker, a preacher and a Republican, shot himself on a bridge in Mt. Washington, southeast of Louisville. His body turned up on a riverbank near the bridge and the weapon reportedly was found at the scene. Rep. Johnson took to Facebook on Wednesday to post about the accusations levelled against him, claiming they were “false” and “only GOD knows the truth.” On Monday, the Kentucky Centre for Investigative Reporting published an…

In spite the #EndSARS debate by Nigerians, Mr Akin Fakorode, the Commander of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Rivers, says crime rate has dropped to the barest minimum in the upland region of the state. Fakorode disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Port Harcourt. He assured the people of the state that the Squad would continue to tackle insecurity in the riverside region until peace was permanently restored following its collaboration with the Marine Police, Navy and other relevant security agencies. He disagreed with those clamouring for the withdrawal of…

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) on Thursday began repair works on the runway of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu. Mrs Herrienta Yakubu, the General Manager in charge of Corporate Affairs, FAAN, stated this in a statement she issued in Lagos on Thursday. She said that the first phase of the repair works would run from December 14 to December 21, 2017 while the second phase would be between December 27, 2017 and January 4, 2018. READ: Heads must roll if anything happens to Ibrahim Magu – MURIC “There will be skeletal operations at the airport while the…