The number of registered service providers and operating firms in the Nigeria’s multi-billion dollars oil and gas industry has hit 8,060. Minister of state for petroleum resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, who declared this during the inauguration of the Governing Council for the Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) on Tuesday, maintained that these companies are the ones found on the register of the NCDMB JQS portal. Charging members of the newly inaugurated Governing Council to support the attainment of the Nigerian Content 10-Year Strategic Roadmap, he stated, according to…
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Why my 34-yr old daughter gave birth to quadruplets after 13 children – mother
Mother of Hauwa Sulaiman, a 34 years old housewife and a mother of 13 children who gave birth to quadruplet babies in Zaria, Kaduna State, northwest Nigeria, Mallama Saudatu Haruna, has disclosed that her daughter’s child delivery pattern was hereditary. The housewife, Mrs. Hauwa’u Sulaiman was delivered of the four babies on Friday 5th June 2020 at the Gambo Sawaba General Hospital, Kofar Gayan, Zaria. She was, however, transferred to Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Shika with the babies for more medical attention. She had given birth to triplets twice,…
Read MoreHow COVID-19 killed 589 people in Kano – Minister
The death of 589 people, being the 60% of the “mysterious” deaths in Nigeria’s northern Kano state was triggered by or due to COVID-19, Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, has declared as he gave graphical details of deaths between April and May. Ehanire, a Medical Doctor, who declared this during a press conference in Abuja, Nigeria’s administrative capital, noted that the peak in deaths occurred in the second week of April, and that by the beginning of May, the death rate had gone back down to the normal rate. Giving…
Read MoreHeart attack kills Burundi President, Nkurunziza, at 55
Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza has died of a heart attack aged 55. He was, before his death announced in a statement, due to step down in August after his party’s candidate won elections May, and had been president since 2005. Nkurunziza came to power at the end of Burundi’s 12-year civil war, which killed 300,000 people and was driven by similar ethnic tensions as the 1994 genocide in neighbouring Rwanda, where Hutu extremists slaughtered 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. A former leader of a Hutu rebel group, he was elected…
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