The Jehovah’s Witnesses organization has published the first ever complete Bible in the American Sign Language, a feat described as likely the first in the world

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The United States Agency for International Development has phased out its financial support for the Help Baby Breathe, an intervention program for preventing newborn deaths.

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Worried by the increasing volume of non-oil export in the informal sector, the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Mr. Olusegun Awolowo has enjoined players in the informal export trade to embrace formal export which would be beneficial to the national economy and bring development to border communities. Awolowo, made this appeal at the Stakeholders’ sensitisation …

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The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) Ibadan Export Assistance Office has concluded a workshop for newly registered and intending exporters at the Ibadan Business School, Ibadan, Oyo State. The training which held in line with COVID-19 protocols recently was aimed at promoting export of non-oil products from Oyo State. At the event, the Trade Promotion Advisor, NEPC, Ibadan Export Assistant …

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*Insists Former Vice President’s Sex Abuse Allegation Politically Motivated A Nigerian refugee who became a House of Representatives member in the U.S state of New Hampshire has said he resigned from his position so that his tweet defending former U.S Vice President Joe Biden over a sexual abuse allegation will not cause further outcry. Richard Komi, an Ogoni man and …

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Nigeria A No-Go-Area Now—U.S-Based Nigerians Tayo Olanipekun Nigeria is yet to fix a date for the evacuation of its citizens in the U.S. willing to return home over the COVID-19 pandemic. Head of Chancery, Nigerian Embassy in the U.S, Suleiman Usman, told National Wire on Thursday that requests have continued “trickling in” from Nigerians willing to reunite with their families …

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**About 200 Nigerians Have Requested Evacuation From U.S.—Onyeama Tayo Olanipekun The U.S. Mission in Nigeria has helped 997 Americans return home amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The evacuation took place between April 4 to 8 aboard Delta Air Lines and Ethiopian Airlines, even as the death toll from the dreaded Coronavirus in the U.S. is almost 15,000 as at press time. …

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Basic household items still remain hot commodities in most grocery stores across the US as the authorities recommend social distancing and most businesses shut their doors fighting the  COVID-19 pandemic. Bottled water, poultry products, sea foods, bread, paper towels, hand sanitiser and milk are among the items that have disappeared from the shelves, according to our correspondent who visited some …

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**Says Children In North East Nigeria Suffered 20,000 Grave Violations in 7 Years    Children continue to pay a deadly price as conflicts rage around the world, including in Nigeria’s north-east where the figure of violations against children is almost 20,000 in the last seven years, UNICEF said today. Since the start of the decade, the United Nations has verified …

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Water Supply and Sanitation Project in Nigeria has received a boost as the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank  (AfDB) on Thursday approved a N 44.7 billion ($ 124.2 million) loan to finance the Urban Water Sector Reform and Akure. The amount also includes an African Growing Together Fund (AGTF) loan of $20 million, to finance the project …

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