The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Nigeria’s food and drugs regulator, has banned popular herbicides Paraquat and Atrazine. Moratorium for the exhaustion of available stock of Paraquat will be December, 2023, and Atrazine is January, Read More …
Derek Skipper, 92 years old, from Orwell in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, sat for the General Certificate of Secondary Education, GCSE, examination in Mathematics and passed. He scored Grade 5, the highest grade available on the foundation paper he took. He Read More …
Two female Research Fellows in the Centre for Energy Research and Training, CERT, Zaria, have been granted Reactor Operator Licences as Operator Class ‘C’. They are the first women qualified to be so licensed for the tank – in – Read More …
A young Nigerian woman, Prosper Oluwafunmibi Babalola, is breaking records locally, for languages by speaking 21 languages fluently. She speaks German, Spanish, Hindi, Korean, Japanese, Twi, Zulu, Russian, Chinese, Indonesian, Dutch, French, Latin, Italian, English, Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo, among Read More …
World leaders agree to raise more funds to help developing nations tackle climate change. They also agreed that nations return in a year with stricter targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. They further pledged to stop and reverse deforestation by Read More …
The island nation of Madagascar, lying off the southeastern coast of Africa, is facing severe food shortages after five years of drought. This is the country’s worst drought in four decades. The World Food Programme says it needs $69 million Read More …
After a delay of three weeks and a court case, Nigeria finally launched her eNaira digital currency. President Muhammadu Buhari officially unveiled the eNaira on 25 October, 2021 with the theme: Same Naira, More Possibilities. The official launch was earlier Read More …
Ghana has recorded two more deaths from Marburg virus disease. The fatalities are relatives of two unrelated persons in southern Ashanti, Ghana, who were confirmed to have died from Marburg virus. This brings the death toll from the recent outbreak Read More …
A 21-storey building under construction has collapsed in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, trapping about 100 workers. The incident was at about 14:45 WAT, November 1, 2021. By 18:00 WAT, three persons in the building – Number 20 Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos Read More …
A 41-year-old man who suffers from lymphoma and has a weakened immune system, died from monkeypox disease on 29 July, 2022 in Brazil. This marked the first death from monkeypox outside Africa. Later, the same day, a young man died Read More …
