Nigeria’s National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has promised to investigate allegations of a cancer-causing chemical found in Indomie noodles.This comes after health officials in Malaysia and Taiwan said they had detected ethylene oxide, a compound, in Indomie’s “special chicken” flavour noodles.Ethylene oxide is a colourless,
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Interpol has summoned Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner, Hudu Yunusa-Ari over his alleged improper conduct in the state’s April 14 supplementary elections.A letter dated April 27, 2023, from the Interpol said Mr. Yunusa Ari should report to the National Central Bureau in Abuja for interrogation.The letter duly signed by Garba Umar,
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Not less than N3 billion is lost annually in Nigeria by onion sellers due to poor processing.The president of National Onion Producers Processors Marketers Association of Nigeria, Isah Aliyu Maitasamu, said the country is losing about N3billion worth of onion a year, equivalent to about 40 percent of the total
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Seventeen years after the first outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), otherwise known as Bird Flu in Nigeria, the federal government yesterday announced its position to stick to the "No Vaccination" policy against the diseases.The policy was first adopted in 2006 following the outbreak of the diseases as one
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Governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Rivers State, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, has said he will withdraw his petition against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the state governor-elect, Siminalaye Fubara, from the Election Petitions Tribunal.Abe, who made the announcement yesterday when he addressed SDP stakeholders
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In a bid to stem internet scams, popularly called ‘yahoo yahoo’, operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have busted a syndicate of organised cyber criminals and arrested no fewer than 19 undergraduate students.This followed the raiding of the Akwa Ibom State
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Governors of the South East and other Igbo leaders yesterday rallied behind elder statesman, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, as he assumed office as the new president-general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide.The governors, led by the host and governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and his Anambra State counterpart, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, participated
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Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) weekend, raided a clandestine factory in Mubi, Adamawa State, where a new psychoactive substance, Akuskura, was being produced in large quantity and distributed to Chad, Cameroon and Niger Republic.NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, who confirmed the report, said at the time of
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The incoming Kano state government of Abba Kabir Yusuf, who won the governorship election on the platform of the New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP), has planned to revisit the dethronement of Muhammad Sanusi II as emir of Kano. Former governor of Kano State, Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, who dropped the hint
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The Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) has kicked against the planned sale of the broadcast frequency in the 600MHz spectrum band by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), saying such action will not only threaten over 80 per cent of television viewers nationwide but will also make Nigeria’s broadcast space vulnerable
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