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COVID-19: Nigeria ranks second out of 10 countries with highest confirmed cases in…
NIGERIA, with a 16.4 percent infection rate is the second most infected country of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)…
Nigeria, ‘African giant’ plods slowly in the race to test for…
NIGERIA ranks 31st on the African continent for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) tests per one million population out…
Despite restriction order, Nigeria records 5,125 percent increase in Covid-19 cases…
NIGERIA has recorded over 5,000 percentage increase in COVID-19 cases within one month despite lockdown directives by…
Human rights lawyer sentenced to prison for speaking to media in Egypt
ZYAD El-Elaimy, a human rights lawyer, former Member of Parliament and one of the leaders of the Egyptian Social…
Egypt’s ousted president Hosni Mubarak dies at 91
HOSNI Mubarak, Egypt's president for almost 30 years who stepped down after a popular revolution in 2011, has died. He…
Coronavirus: Reports of first case in Africa false, as Egypt refutes claims of…
EGYPT'S health ministry on Friday refuted claims of a newfound case of the COVID 19 incident in the African country as…
Nigeria has given a new GM cowpea variety the go ahead. Why it matters
By Jose Maria BARRERO, CSIRO and TJ HIGGINS, CSIRO
LATE last year the world’s first genetically modified (GM) cowpea…
FACT CHECK: Solar panel factory in Borno State not Africa’s ‘biggest’ for production…
POPULAR Twitter account Africa Facts Zone repeated a widespread claim in August 2019 that Nigeria’s Borno State has the…
Imo Governor announces Kanu Nwankwo SSA on sports
FOR his contributions in the sports industry, Emeka Ihedioha, has announced the appointment of Kanu Nwankwo, former…