By Aluta News Feb. 18, 2022 The Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB), on Friday, removed over 3,000 thousand tyres used as road barricades, warning hawkers, corporate beggars and commercial sex workers, to leave the city or face prosecution. Mr Braimah Osilama, Director of the AEPB, said this in Abuja, whileContinue Reading
By Aluta News Feb. 18, 2022 Niger has accepted that French and European special forces will cross into its territory from neighbouring Mali to combat jihadists and try to secure the border with the West African state, Niger’s president said on Twitter on Friday. In his first comments since FranceContinue Reading
By Aluta News Feb. 18, 2022 A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Makurdi on Friday ordered the remand of four men in a correctional centre for allegedly conspiring and burning a Mango farm belonging to former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The suspects: Julius Igyo, Samuel Aleva, Pius Mcha and Daniel Ortserga, areContinue Reading
By Aluta News Feb. 18, 2022 No fewer than 17 persons were burnt to death on Friday in an accident involving a Mazda bus and a tanker at Isara Bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun, Mr Ahmed Umar, confirmed the incidentContinue Reading
By Aluta News Feb. 18, 2022 In Africa, the landlocked country of Malawi has reported the first wild polio outbreak on the continent in several years. The wild type 1 poliovirus was discovered in a child in the city of Lilongwe, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Friday. LaboratoryContinue Reading
By Aluta News Feb. 18, 2022 The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) said on Friday it had concluded all arrangements to provide healthcare cover for National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member in Osun. Mr Hamed Yahaya, the Director of NHIS, Osun Office, made this known during the NHIS enrollment sensitisationContinue Reading
By Aluta News Feb. 18, 2022 A Chief Magistrate’s Court, sitting in Kano, on Friday remanded a 33-year-old man, Abubakar Aminu, in a correctional centre for allegedly throwing a four-year-old boy, Abdulmalik Suleiman into a well. The defendant, who lives at Rijiyar Lemo Quarters in Kano, is standing trial onContinue Reading
By Aluta News Feb. 18, 2022 President Muhammadu Buhari and the Presidents of Algeria and South Africa as well as the Prime Minister of Ethiopia under the auspices of the “G4” have resolved to strengthen the platform for the resolution of the various issues confronting the African continent. The G4 Platform,Continue Reading
By Aluta News Feb. 18, 2022 Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has called for appropriate strategy crucial to transforming Africa into knowledge-based and innovation-led society. Osinbajo made the call through Mrs Maryam Katagum, Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, who represented him at the maiden edition of the Abuja ChamberContinue Reading
