By Aluta News Sept 6, 2021 Six convicted Palestinian prisoners escaped from an Israeli prison late on Sunday, the military tweeted on Monday. The Israeli military, along with the country’s Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency and police, are now searching for the escapees, it said. The prisoners escaped through aContinue Reading
By Aluta News Sept 6, 2021 Russian President Vladimir Putin will take part in the summit of BRICS leaders on Thursday. The summit will focus on the fight against Coronavirus (COVID-19) and international developments, including the events in Afghanistan, the Kremlin said. “On Sept. 9, Russian Federation President Vladimir PutinContinue Reading
By Aluta News Sept 6, 2021 The Representative of the United Nation’s Children Fund (UNICEF) in Nigeria, Dr Peter Hawkins, has disclosed that a massive outbreak of vaccine-derived polio has been reported in Nigeria. Hawkins disclosed this in his remarks at the third Quarter Northern Traditional Leaders Committee on Primary HealthContinue Reading
By Aluta News Sept 6, 2021 Mr Maxwell Opara, one of the lawyers defending the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has filed a fundamental right enforcement suit against the Director -General of the Department of State Services (DSS). Opara, in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1018/2021, alleged thatContinue Reading
By Aluta News Sept 6, 2021 Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation says the ministry will establish technology and innovation centres in the country’s six geogpolitical zones. Onu disclosed this while speaking at the 87th Birthday Lecture in honour of Chief Gabriel Igbinedion on Monday at theContinue Reading
By Aluta News Sept 6, 2021 less than 200 people including 30 commanders surrendered to the Taliban in the Panjshir Province in Afghanistan, and their weapons and ammunition were seized by the militants, Taliban’s senior leader, Amir Khan Muttaqi, said on Monday. “In Panjshir, 200 people including 30 commanders surrenderedContinue Reading
By Aluta News Sept 6, 2021 Economist and Private Sector Advocate, Dr Muda Yusuf, has counselled the National Assembly and the Federal Ministry of Finance to halt moves to impose excise duty on any segment of the Nigerian manufacturing sector. Yusuf, also the former Director-General of the Lagos Chamber ofContinue Reading
By Aluta News Sept 6, 2021 The All Electricity Consumers Protection Forum (AECPF) says it will monitor the bills of customers for the month of October to ensure that there is no increment by electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos). The group made this known in a letter to the Nigerian ElectricityContinue Reading
By Aluta News Sept 6, 2021 Soldiers who ousted Guinean President Alpha Conde summoned his ministers and top government officials to a meeting on Monday, a day after a coup that drew international condemnation. A spokesman for the army unit told state television that failure to attend the 1100 GMTContinue Reading
By Aluta News Sept 6, 2021 Canada has called for the release of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor 1,000 days after the two were arrested in China. Foreign Minister Marc Garneau, said the two Canadian men were arbitrarily detained as he condemned the lack of a transparent legal process inContinue Reading
