WIFE of Anambra State Governor, Dr Nonye Soludo, says she has established pad banks in 300 schools across the state as part of her pet project, Healthy Living Initiative. Mrs Soludo disclosed this in a message in Awka on Wednesday to mark the 2025 World Menstrual Hygiene Day. She said …
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THE National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has begun the 2025 flood preparedness and response campaign in Edo to address risks and related hazards. Speaking at the event in Benin on Wednesday, NEMA Director-General, Mrs Zubaida Umar, said that flooding had devastated many families and communities in the country. Represented by …
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AN Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Wednesday sentenced a 25-year-old teacher Chukwunonso Okafor, to life imprisonment for defiling a 3-year-old baby Justice Abiola Soladoye convicted and sentenced Okafor to life imprisonment after she held that the prosecution has successfully proved the three-count charge of sexual assault by …
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A former French surgeon was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Wednesday after having confessed to the abuse of 299 patients, most of them minors. In what is considered to be France’s largest child-abuse trial. A retired medical doctor Joël Le Scouarnec, 74, admitted to abusing a total of …
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THE Federal Government through the Ministry for Marine and Blue Economy, on Wednesday, donated 3,500 life jackets to the Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA). Speaking at the event, Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Mr Adegboyega Oyetola, noted that the distribution of life jackets to Lagos State was the current …
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TROOPS of the Nigerian Armed Forces operating under Operation Hadin Kai, have restrategised to neutralise the recent of terrorists’ activities in Borno. Newsextra24 reports that the troops in different locations have heightened surveillance, patrol and ambush operations to forestall attacks by the insurgents. A visit to the Forward Operation Base …
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THE Senate has approved N1.8trillion for the 2025 Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) Statutory Appropriation Bill. This followed the presentation of the report of Committees on FCT on the bill by Chairman of the Committee Sen.Bomai Ibrahim(APC-Yobe)at plenary on Wednesday. Ibrahim in his report said the Senate and the House …
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TANZANIA has completed the landmark Magufuli Bridge, now officially the longest bridge in East and Central Africa. Spanning three kilometres across Lake Victoria and linking Kigongo to Busisi, the new structure is set to transform transport across the region and cement Tanzania’s position as a hub for cross-border trade. The bridge …
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FIFTY years after its historic founding in Lagos, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) finds itself in a precarious position. What was once a model of African regionalism is now grappling with a widening internal rupture that threatens the unity it was built to protect. The bloc, born …
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AFRICA’S economy is projected to expand by 3.9 percent in 2025, rising further to 4 percent in 2026, despite mounting global uncertainties, inflationary pressures, and trade disruptions, according to the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) in its 2025 African Economic Outlook (AEO) released Tuesday. Unveiled during the Bank’s Annual Meetings in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, …
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