Tag: Germany
31 states risk being washed away by flood: Lagos, Kogi top list
August 25, 2021 A fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Mr Sunday Egbiki, has raised an alarm that 31 Nigerian states risk being washed away by flood. Egbiki, a lecturer in the Maritime University, Delta State, raised the alarm while delivering a lecture at a virtual/physical conference of the 2021 Engineering Week organised ...Olympics Basketball: D’Tigers lose to Germany, hope dims for medal
July 28, 2021 Days after losing their first game, Nigeria’s D’Tigers lost steam in the fourth quarter of their second game at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics to lose 92 – 99 to Germany on Wednesday. But it was an improvement in performance to the first game, with D’Tigers securing the first basket via Miami Heat ...How DSS trailed, arrested Sunday Igboho in Cotonou
July 20, 2021 Yoruba Nation freedom fighter and activist, Mr.Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has been arrested in Cotonou, Benin Republic by Nigerian secret police, the DSS. This is coming barely one month after his Igbo Nation counterpart, Nnamdi Kanu was nabbed in Kenya. Igboho who was said to be enroute Germany, was ...Mother, son, others jailed in child porn ring case
July 6, 2021 The lead defendant in a long-running child abuse and pornography case in the western German city of Muenster has bagged a 14-year sentence. The defendant was sentenced on Tuesday for the serious abuse of minors in 29 separate cases. The court also ordered that the man, a 28-year-old IT technician, be held ...LAUTECH receives German grant to establish emerging, re-emerging infectious diseases
June 30, 2021 The Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH). Ogbomoso, Oyo State, has received a German grant to investigate the impact and implications of COVID 19 and malaria co infection. The benefactor is the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, encouraged to give the grant by Bayer Science and Education Foundation, Germany. The grant entails the ...SUPPORTING MANUFACTURING FOR NATIONAL EMPOWERMENT
June 23, 2021 Top five manufacturing nations are China, USA, Germany, Japan and India. China is noted as the ‘’world factory’’. It overtook USA in 2010 and account for 30 per cent of global manufacturing, but it was projected that USA would overtake China in 2020 Manufacturing is the very essence of the secondary sector ...FG, Germany, Britain to build museum for returned Benin Bronze
June 22, 2021 The archaeological site will be part of living, open-air Museum, and a major tourist site in the making. German Government, Edo Government, NCMM and Royal Benin Palace are jointly setting up museum centre in Benin City, to form a cultural hub with the Oba’s Palace The National Commission for Museum and Monument ...FG explains what constitutes hate speech, says fine raised for national security
The Federal Government says “any speech, broadcast or publication that denigrates a person, a group of people on the basis of their sex, religion, political belief or origin is hate speech”. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, gave the explanation on Thursday when he appeared on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) ...Covid-19: Medical workers account for 11% of cases in Germany
Around 20,000 staff in hospitals, aged care, and nursing homes have contracted the novel coronavirus in Germany, accounting for around 11 per cent of total cases in the country, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported on Tuesday. At the height of the disease outbreak in mid-April, more than 230 doctors, nurses and employees in the healthcare ...US diverts covid-19 masks meant for Germany in ‘modern day piracy’
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned G20 countries against acting in their own interests amid the Covid-19 pandemic after Germany accused the US of ‘modern day piracy’. Protective face masks destined for Berlin were allegedly intercepted at a Thailand airport and diverted instead to the US, prompting angry German officials to blast Donald Trump for ...
