Ekeomah Atuonwu Ufot Ekong, a Tokyo-based Nigerian student, achieved a great feat recently by not only breaking a 50-year-old record in Tokai University, Japan, he indeed solved a mathematical puzzle which had remained unsolved for 30 years. He has been awarded the Nation’s Presidential Award. He is the first Nigerian to bag such an award in the […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Munkaila Ahmadu who killed his parents in Gagarawa Local Government Area of Jigawa State, Nigeria said he did so because they uttered blasphemous comments against the prophet Muhammad. Mr Ahmadu, a singer and, a member of the Tijjaniyya Islamic sect, said his parents mocked and called him a mad person and opposed him being a praise singer for the prophet. Journalists reported how the Police in […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu There are solid signs that the Middle Eastern airline, Emirates Airlines, would start operating again in Nigeria as soon as feasible. The Dubai-based airline announced it would resume four-weekly flights to Nigeria in a notification emailed to travel agencies in Nigeria. Just a few days prior, Emirates had made the decision to stop […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has said the country is “not a xenophobic nation“. His statement comes after those of a provincial health minister, who was accused of blaming foreigners for the nation’s failing healthcare system while speaking to a Zimbabwean patient receiving treatment. “You are killing my health system,” Dr Phophi Ramathuba was captured in a widely circulated video as saying to […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu A lion at Ghana’s Accra Zoo mauled a man to death after he entered its enclosure, the government has said in a statement. Security guards on patrol noticed that the middle-aged victim had climbed over a tall mesh fence and entered the enclosure of a lion, a lioness and two cubs. His motivation […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu More than 1,000 people have died as a result of flooding in Pakistan, which has prompted the government to make an appeal for foreign assistance. The flooding catastrophe also poses a threat to submerge a third of the nation, an area roughly the size of Britain. According to Pakistan’s foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, financial assistance […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Direct flights between New York and Lagos will no longer operate, according to Delta Airlines. The airline, which has its main office in Atlanta, Georgia, said in a statement that it made the choice to accommodate the present demand climate and that it will still run flights between Lagos and Atlanta. “Delta is […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Joao Lourenco, the president of Angola, was elected to a second five-year term on Monday after his MPLA party scored a narrow victory in last week’s fiercely contested election, continuing decades of control in the oil-rich nation. When the results of the election were revealed by the electoral commission it was clear that […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Following a National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the striking university lecturers at the University of Abuja on Monday, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) extended its six-month-old strike. The strike was started by ASUU on February 14, 2022. The following day, it announced a four-week warning strike. The academics, however, prolonged […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu According to the meteorological agency, in reaction to the drought that has led to a major food crisis in the nation this year, the Nigerien government has chosen to utilize chemicals to induce rain. Through the use of an aircraft, chemicals such as a mixture of silver, sodium, and acetone are introduced into […]
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