March 2017

By Amos Tauna The Government of Japan has announced a contribution of USD 903,000 towards World Health Organization’s (WHO) Emergency Programme in the crisis-affected Northeastern region of Nigeria. A statement from Ziyad Qamar Resource…

By Amos Tauna Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, in Nigeria has announced its resolve to abolish Computer Based Test, CBT, method for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, due to low computer literacy level of…

By Winifred Bulus Zambia has confirmed the shortage of HIV/AIDS drugs in some of its health centers to the activities of some medical personnel that smuggled the drugs to DR Congo. This discovery was made by a District commissioner, Royd…

By Amos Tauna Institute for Agricultural Research, IAR, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, northwest Nigeria, has released 3 variety of maize, SAMMAZ 49, SAMMAZ 50 and last year. Executive Director of the Institute, Professor Ibrahim Umar…

By Lontong Ibrahim A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, Nigeria Federal Capital on Tuesday sentenced 10 men to two weeks imprisonment each for loitering by the Area Court.  The convicts were accused of loitering around Gwarimpa area, Abuja,…

By Lontong Ibrahim 20 students from Darfur region have been arrested by the Sudanese Police, following a sit-in to protest the rejection of Al-Azhari University to exonerate Darfurians from tuition fees. A statement issued on Monday by…

By Winifred Bulus Namibian government is to increase 9 per cent of teachers and civil servants salary starting from April, 2017. This was disclosed by the country’s finance permanent secretary, Ericah Shafudah in a notice given to…

By Longtong Ibrahim An Environmental scientist in Nigeria, Suleiman Zubair Abdullahi, has revealed that there is so much proliferation of Dengue fever in Northern and southwest Nigeria, always mistaken to be ordinary Malaria. In an…