Queen Elizabeth II’s 99-year-old husband Prince Philip on Monday left the private London hospital where he had spent nearly two weeks to have heart tests and treatment at another hospital, Buckingham Palace said. Royal officials said the Duke of Edinburgh, as he is formally known, was taken from King Edward…
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, an executive bill seeking to ban open grazing of cows and regulate the business of livestock breeding and marketing in Bayelsa State would be passed into law on Wednesday. The chairman of the state House of Assembly Joint Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Trade, Industry…
The Director-General of the Progressives Governors Forum, Dr. Salihu Lukman, has said, the Major General Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) regime must rise above partisan politics to find practical solutions to Nigeria’s rising cases of extreme poverty. He blamed the upsurge of criminality especially in Northern Nigeria on extreme…
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo on Monday became the world’s first recipient of a coronavirus vaccine from Covax, a global scheme to procure and distribute inoculations for free for poorer countries. Richer countries have surged ahead with inoculating their population, but many poorer countries are still awaiting their first vaccine doses.…
China has banned school teachers from meting out any punishment that can cause physical or mental trauma, after a string of student deaths linked to harsh discipline in recent years. New rules issued by the Ministry of Education that take effect Monday forbid punishments at schools that humiliate students, as…
Austria’s Rosina Schneeberger has undergone surgery for a double leg fracture following a violent crash during the women’s World Cup super-G race in Val di Fassa, the Austrian ski federation said Monday. “She was operated on early Sunday evening in Innsbruck and the surgery went well,” the federation revealed. Schneeberger…
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency has commenced online registration of Nigerians interested in taking COVID-19 vaccination ahead of the Tuesday arrival of the first batch of the nation’s vaccines. The agency disclosed this in a series of messages posted on its Twitter handle, @NphcdaNG, on Monday. “We have…
Former Croatia coach and Dinamo Zagreb star Zlatko ‘Cico’ Kranjcar died on Monday at the age of 64, the national football federation (HNS) said. “Kranjcar, legendary Croatian footballer, and coach … has died in Zagreb,” the federation said in a statement without providing further details. The Zagreb-born Kranjcar was hospitalised…
Nigerian authorities say the expected COVID-19 vaccine would be administered in the order of priority, less than 24 hours to the arrival of the vaccine. The Minister of State for Health, Dr Olorunnimbe Mamora, disclosed this on Monday while highlighting the preparedness of the government to take delivery of the…
The Turkish fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said on Monday that Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman should be “punished without delay” over the murder. The United States on Friday declassified a report that publicly accused the crown prince of approving Khashoggi murder in the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate…
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