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Greenlife Pharmaceuticals Limited has said the complete elimination of malaria is possible.   It said this in celebration of World Malaria Day 2023, which was a day recognised by the United Nations, to raise awareness of malaria at the national and international levels. Marketing Manager, Greenlife Pharmaceuticals Limited, Dr Wilfred …

  Pakistan’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that 700 nationals have been evacuated to safety in Sudan, where heavy fighting has killed hundreds of people and sparked an exodus of foreigners. “Today, another convoy carrying 211 Pakistanis dispatched from Khartoum has arrived in Port Sudan,” Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said in …

The first female Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Mrs Jumoke Akindele-Ajulo, has delivered a baby. She was said to have delivered the baby at the age of 54. Akindele, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, who was in the Assembly between 2011 and 2019,  became speaker …

Tragedy struck in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Friday, when a middle-aged man lost his life and three others were injured in a road accident. The accident reportedly involved four persons, who were riding on a motorcycle on Eid-el-Fitr day in Ilorin. The three other people on the bike, which rammed …

The Ekiti State Government has described as untrue the allegation that the immediate past governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, expended N91bn on a primary healthcare facility that is now abandoned. The Commissioner for Health, Br Oyebanji Filani, stated that the allegation “is outrageously false and intended to misinform the public.” Filani, …

Covenant University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with OBTranslate to undertake research and development activities in a broad range of areas. The MoU between the two parties covers machine translation, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and linguistics for OBTranslate scientists to further develop the “OBTranslate” machine translation and generative …

The Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Lamido Yuguda, has blamed the dwindling level of Foreign Portfolio Investments in the country on scarcity of foreign exchange. Based on data from the National Bureau of Statistics, the Foreign Portfolio Investment (including equity, bonds and money market instruments) dropped by 27.86 …

A report by the International Organisation for Migration says no fewer than 400 migrants died between January and March 2023 while attempting to cross the Central Mediterranean. The Central Mediterranean route – stretching overseas from North Africa to Italy and, to a lesser degree, Malta – is the world’s most …

The International Monetary Fund has retained Nigeria’s 3.2 per cent economic growth projection for 2023 in its recent world economic outlook update. In the ‘World Economic Outlook: A Rocky Recovery (2023 Apr), the IMF improved the country’s 2024 economic growth projection for 2024 to 3.0 per cent from the 2.9 …

An avalanche on Sunday near Mont Blanc in southeastern France swept four people to their deaths and left two more missing, the officials said. Among the dead were two mountain guides caught by the snow tumbling down the Armancette glacier, the prefecture for the Haute-Savoie department said. Investigators had been …