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USAID invests $19 million in training of health workers in Nigeria

Daily Tracker Feb 24, 2021

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has sent aside $19 million to train 100,000 health workers in part of Nigeria. The training, which would be on for the next five year, have Bauchi, Sokoto, Kebbi, and Ebonyi…

News

Senate confirms Abdulrasheed Bawa as EFCC Chairman

Daily Tracker Feb 24, 2021

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed the appointment of Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa as Chairman of the Economic and Financial Commission, (EFCC). The confirmation was the outcome of a two-hour session of the upper chamber of the National…

News

NAF aircraft crash victims for burial Thursday

Daily Tracker Feb 24, 2021

The Nigerian Air Force says the seven officers who died in the Sunday air crash will be buried at the National Cemetery, Lugbe, Airport Road, Abuja, on Thursday. The NAF disclosed this on Wednesday in an invitation to…

Crime Watch

Borno attacks: Death toll rises to 16

Daily Tracker Feb 24, 2021

Boko Haram jihadists attacked Nigeria’s city of Maiduguri in the volatile northeast killing 16 people, including nine children who were playing football in a field, local militia told AFP Wednesday. Officials said previously 10…

Crime Watch

Senate approves N11.35bn Police Trust Fund budget

Daily Tracker Feb 24, 2021

The Senate on Wednesday approved N11,352,457,101.70 as the budget for the Nigeria Police Trust Fund in the 2020 fiscal year. The approval came following consideration of the harmonized report of the Senate and House of…

Health

Covax vaccine-sharing scheme delivers first doses to Ghana

Daily Tracker Feb 24, 2021

Ghana has become the first country to receive coronavirus vaccines through the Covax vaccine-sharing initiative. A delivery of 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine arrived in Accra on Wednesday. The first recipients are due…

Crime Watch

Update: 13 killed, 40 others injured in rocket attack on Maiduguri

Daily Tracker Feb 23, 2021

No fewer than thirteen persons have been confirmed dead, while over 40 others sustained varying degrees of injuries in rocket attack on Maiduguri by suspected Boko Haram. As at the time of filing the report Tuesday night,…

Crime Watch

Rocket kills four, injures several others in Maiduguri

Daily Tracker Feb 23, 2021

Parts of troubled Maiduguri was thrown into panic as a strange rocket fell, killing four persons and causing injuries to several others. A large explosion which shook part of the town and caused many to flee was heard at about…

Crime Watch

Troops recapture Borno town after COAS ultimatum

Daily Tracker Feb 23, 2021

The Nigerian army has recaptured Marte, an area in Borno state, from the hold of suspected terrorists. Brigadier General, Director Army Public Relations, Mohammed Yerima, made this known in a statement titled, “Troops recovered…

Foreign

Just in: Tiger Woods hospitalised after car crash

Daily Tracker Feb 23, 2021

US golfer Tiger Woods was hospitalized Tuesday after a car crash in which his vehicle sustained “major damage,” the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department said. Woods, the sole occupant, was removed from the wreckage by…

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