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Three more states have been added to the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme, with an additional one million children now benefitting from it. They are Cross River, Akwa Ibom and Niger states. This brings to 17 the number of states currently participating in the School Feeding Programme, a crucial part of President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s Social Investment Programmes, SIPs, aimed at tackling poverty and hunger, as well as creating jobs for Nigerians. The other 14 states already on the programme are Anambra, Enugu, Oyo, Osun, Ogun, Ebonyi, Zamfara, Delta, Abia, Benue, Plateau, Bauchi, Taraba and Kaduna. So far, in…

The founder and Chancellor of Afe Babalola University in Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola, has urged the Federal Government to revisit the airport project it planned to establish in Ekiti State. Babalola, who spoke at the weekend at ABUAD’s fifth convocation, regretted the state of the federal road to the institution. The eminent lawyer has been repairing the road in the last eight years. He regretted that the Ekiti airport project had been stalled by politics while other states, whose similar projects were approved, had either made theirs operational or got them to various stages of completion. Twenty-one-year old Ahwin…

A researcher, Prof. Madubuike Ezeibe, has called on the Federal Government to carry out a clinical trial of the drug he invented, Aluminum-Magnesium Silicate (AMS), for the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Ezeibe, a professor of Veterinary Medicine, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU), made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Umuahia on Monday. Clinical trial is a study that explores whether a medical strategy, treatment, or device is safe and effective for humans. It shows which medical approaches that work best for certain illnesses or groups of people. According to the don, he…

Kylian Mbappe has won the Golden Boy award ahead of Gabriel Jesus and Ousmane Dembele, who were shortlisted. The award is given to the best player under the age of 21 in Europe and is voted for by a panel of journalists from across the continent. Read Also Trump claims he had a respectable conversation with Myeshia Johnson The 18-year-old shone at Monaco last season and has scored four goals and has four assists in 11 games for Paris Saint-Germain this season having moved in the summer on an initial loan deal. The striker, who already has eight international caps…

Fourteen people have now died in the latest suicide bomb attack in northeast Nigeria, an official said Monday, calling for greater protection for those made homeless by Boko Haram. Three bombers, all of them women, detonated their explosives near the sprawling Muna Garage camp on the outskirts of the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, on Sunday evening. The blasts came after warnings of a build-up of jihadist fighters outside the strategic city, which has been the epicentre in the eight years of Islamist violence. Ahmed Satomi, from the Borno state emergency management agency, told AFP the death toll had risen since…

The arraignment of alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike a.k.a Evans at an Igbosere High Court in Lagos Island on fresh charges, was on Monday temporarily stalled as his lawyer brought an application seeking to quash the charges slammed on him by the Lagos State Government. Evans was hauled up before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo over alleged attempt to kidnap the Chairman of the Young Shall Grow Motors, Mr Vincent Obianodo. Following the application, the judge fixed Evans’ arraignment for Oct. 27. Evans, who was arrested on June 10, was brought to court alongside other defendants. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)…

President Donald Trump has countered Myeshia Johnson, widow of Sgt. La David Johnson saying he had a respectable conversation with her over the phone. Trump’s defence comes after Johnson said she has “nothing to say” to President Trump, whose condolence call pulled the grieving widow into the center of a national controversy. “Very upset and hurt; it made me cry even worse,” Myeshia Johnson told “Good Morning America” about her conversation with the president. Making her first public comments since she took the call from Trump last week — on the same day her husband’s remains were flown back to…

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the immediate disengagement from service of Mr Abdullahi Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms. In a statement issued by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President, Media and Publicity, the President has called for full report of the circumstances. READ: Ayinde Bakare, Rasheed Williams in court over N818m Skye Bank debt “In a memo to the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, the President equally demanded a full report of the circumstances of Maina’s recall and posting to the Ministry of Interior. “The report is to be…

President Donald Trump struggled to remember the name of the US soldier killed in an ambush in Niger when he called the man’s widow for condolences, the woman told ABC on Monday. “Yes, the president said that he knew what he signed up for but it hurts anyways and I was — it made me cry because I was very angry at the tone of his voice and how he said it,” Myeshia Johnson, the widow of the late Sergeant La David Johnson, said on the Good Morning America TV program. Trump “couldn’t remember my husband’s name,” she said. “The…

The police said that an Indian man who tried to protect his daughter from sexual harassment and complained to authorities has been burnt alive. Police officer RA Pandey said that Narmada Sahu, 45, died at a hospital in Madhya Pradesh state late on Sunday. Pandev said that the victim’s relatives alleged that his 16-year-old daughter was routinely harassed by a neighbour and that Sahu complained to police in August. He said the neighbour demanded that Sahu withdraw the complaint. Police said on Sunday the neighbour barged into the victim’s house with two friends, poured kerosene on him and sett him…