JUST IN: NSA, IGP, Northern Governors Meet In Kaduna
Governors of the 19 Northern States and traditional rulers of the region are meeting in Kaduna over security challenges bedeviling the region. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that…
Nuclear Issue Key As Iran Readies For Rouhani Replacement
Iran will vote in June for a successor to President Hassan Rouhani and his moderate-reformist government, but politics in the country is dominated by the nuclear issue and no frontrunner…
UPDATE: Air Force Buries Personnel Killed In Plane Crash Amid Tears
Family members and friends broke down in tears as the seven air force personnel who lost their lives in a plane crash on Sunday were laid to rest. The burial…
UK Lifts Ban On Use Of Domestic Blood Plasma Donations In Treatments
The UK government said Thursday it will lift a decades-old ban on British donations of blood plasma for use in the manufacture of medicines, in a move that could help…
Ex-Oyo Rep Lam-Adesina Rejoins APC
Barely three years after he left the All Progressives Congress for the African Democratic Congress, Adedapo Lam-Adesina has rejoined the party. The defection, which was done amid jubilations by supporters…
Saudi Crown Prince Has Surgery For Appendicitis
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto ruler, has had successful surgery for appendicitis, state media reported. The 35-year-old prince had “successful laparoscopic surgery (Wednesday) night for…
Jigawa: Gov Badaru Assents Law Prescribing Death Sentence For Rapists, Kidnappers
Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Muhammad Badaru Abubakar has signed into law Violence Against Person Prohibition bill. PREMIER NEWS had reported that the Jigawa State House of Assembly has passed…
Biden Revokes Trump’s Immigrant Visa Ban
President Joe Biden has revoked former President Donald Trump’s order that limited the number of new work visas for temporary foreign workers in the United States amid the coronavirus pandemic.…
Abductors Release Adamawa United Bus Driver After Six Days
Kabiru Mohammed, the bus driver of the Nigeria Professional Football League side, Adamawa United, has regained freedom six days after he was abducted by gunmen. The NPFL side were attacked…
Mass ‘Real World’ Study Confirms Pfizer Vaccine’s Efficacy
The Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine proved 94 percent effective in a huge real-world study published Wednesday that involved 1.2 million people in Israel, confirming the power of mass immunization campaigns to…
