Sydneysiders are braced for a longer and tighter lockdown after Australia’s biggest city recorded 50 new daily cases on Saturday. “Things are going to get worse before they get better,” New South Wales state Premier Gladys Berejiklian said at a press conference. “Unless we reduce that level of people in the community that are infectious,…
Ngozi Onyia is a 1982 medical graduate of the University of Ibadan, a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians in Paediatrics and a Travel Health Phydician. An alumna of the Lagos Business School EMBA 11, she became a medical entrepreneur after 28 years of medical practice in both the public and private healthcare…
Former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Deputy National Chairman, Chief Olabode George, has appealed to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to shelve his 2027 presidential ambition and allow younger Nigerians to run. George made this appeal in an interview on Arise Television on Thursday. According to George, Atiku would be 81 years old in 2027, and…
President Bola Tinubu has ordered the full implementation of the Oronsaye report. Consequently, it announced the merging, subsuming, scraping and relocation of several agencies of government. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, revealed this to State House Correspondents after Monday’s Federal Executive Council meeting at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. …
Popular actress, Ini Edo, has said that she decided to go the surrogacy route to have her child in order to avoid the drama that usually accompanies single parenthood. In an interview with a popular blogger, Stella Dimoko Korkus, the 39-year-old said, “I opted for a donor for me and my baby’s peace of mind….
Enugu – United Progressive Party (UPP), Enugu State chapter commended Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for grooming future leaders for the state. Speaking with journalists in Enugu recently, the State Chairman of UPP, Ken Onyekaonwu gave kudos to Governor Ugwuanyi for walking his talk by appointing more youths into his government. According to Onyekaonwu, notable youths so…
The Chief Executive Officer of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg has launched a new platform called Threads with over 30 million users already. The Owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp stated that the company is setting its sight on one billion users shortly. Threads, which launched on Wednesday, July 5, in over 100 countries now has 30…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has secured an injunction from the Federal High Court in Abuja restraining the sale of shares of ExxonMobil’s Nigerian unit to any third parties. In February, Seplat Energy Plc, a major energy company, had agreed to buy the entire onshore and shallow-water assets of ExxonMobil in Nigeria, but the…
Africa’s ailing presidents and powerful elites have been known to jet out to seek treatment abroad, instead of investing in healthcare in their own countries. Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe died in a hospital in Singapore, and Cameroon’s Paul Biya regularly seeks treatment abroad. Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari was out of the country for several months in…
SaharaReporters learnt from top NAF sources that the crash-landing of the ATR 42 occurred about two weeks ago – a week before the late Chief of the Army Staff, Lt Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, died in a similar NAF jet crash in Kaduna State. A Nigerian Air Force ATR 42 aircraft heading for Owerri, Imo State,…
