The internet is abuzz with a Reuters video of a tiny kitten feeding on milk from lactating dog in a remote Nigerian town The name of the town is not given. Traditionally, dogs do not get on well with cats. So, it is indeed a phenomenon that a cat actually suckles a dog. Below is Read More…
Nigeria will seek to procure vaccines that are less dependent on cooling facilities, the head of the country’s primary healthcare agency said on Tuesday, adding that talks were in progress with Russia and India to procure such vaccines. Africa’s most populous country, where officials recorded low coronavirus numbers through much of 2020, is in its Read More…
The Baby Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire on Monday defeated Nigeria’s national under-17 male football team 3-2 to win the WAFU “B” U-17 Tournament in Lome, Togo. The Golden Eaglets were unable to defend the title they won two years ago after going down to the Ivorians for the second time in the regional tournament. Nigeria Read More…
“Amazing Kid Eche”, aka Eche Chinonso, is a 12-year-old football freestyle prodigy from Delta State, Nigeria. It became clear that Eche had a talent when he was just five years old, so his father began taking him to the field to practice regularly. At the age of eight, Eche began putting in more time to Read More…
Nigeria’s national under-17 male football team on Friday defeated their Burkina Faso counterparts 1-0 to qualify for the final of the WAFU U-17 tournament in Lome, Togo. With this win, the Golden Eaglets have also picked one of the tickets for the 2021 CAF U-17 AFCON scheduled for Morocco later in the year. In the Read More…
The Coach of Lagos-based MFM FC, Tony Bolus, says the away point secured by his team in Match Day 4 encounter against Uyo-based Dakkada was equivalent to three points given the nature of the game. “It was a technical game, and the team picking an away point is like getting three points,’’ Bolus said after Read More…
The World Bank says global economy is expected to grow by 4 per cent in 2021, assuming an initial COVID-19 vaccine rollout becomes widespread throughout the year. It said this in a statement issued in Washington D.C. on Tuesday at the presentation of the January 2021 Global Economic Prospects. It added that the said recovery Read More…
Nigeria stands as the number one country in Africa in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) 2020 World Economic Outlook’s ratings of countries. Using countries’ GDPs, IMF ranked Nigeria among the first 26 countries in the world in the same position with an average 442,976 million U.S. dollars. Countries are sorted by nominal GDP estimates from Read More…
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) says it has generated N4.178 trillion revenue in the last 10 months. The Executive Chairman of the service, Mr Muhammad Nami, disclosed this while presenting a report on Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) at the 46th meeting of the Joint Tax Board (JTB) in Abuja on Friday. Nami said what Read More…
Nigeria expects to receive its first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in January, the country’s health minister said on Wednesday, but officials do not yet know which one they will get. Africa’s most populous nation has not been as hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic as others on the continent such as South Africa, but it Read More…