Nigeria surpasses 200,000 coronavirus infections since Feb 2020 –NCDC
Nigeria has surpassed 200,000 cases from the coronavirus pandemic 18 months after the first positive case was identified in an Italian traveller on Feb. 27, 2020, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease (NCDC), The NCDC via its verified website on Wednesday morning, said that Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases had jumped to 200,057. The News Agency of […]
INEC as the chief driver of electoral reforms
THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has been the chief driver of electoral reforms in Nigeria since former President Goodluck Jonathan appointed Prof. Attahiru Jega as the Commission’s Chairman on June 8, 2010. Apart from conducting elections in which opposition parties regularly won, Jega pioneered the Permanent Voter’s Card, PVC, and Smart Card Reader, SCR, […]
2023: Battle in Imo East over Ihedioha’s ambition
. …OZDU calls on APC, PDP, APGA to hand over the guber ticket to Imo East By Chinonso Alozie Top Stakeholders in Imo East Senatorial District, on Tuesday, set up a Contact and Mobilization Committee to actualize the agenda to produce the next governor of Imo State in 2023. The Stakeholders under the auspices of […]
COVID-19: Nigeria expects delivery of 52m vaccine doses in 2022
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, says Nigeria is expected to receive a total of 52 million doses of vaccines for coronavirus (COVID-19) by the second quarter of 2022. Mustapha, who is also the Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 disclosed this while speaking at the national […]
BREAKING: Emir of Bungudu in Zamfara, Hassan Attahiru, kidnapped
The Emir of Bungudu in Zamfara, Alhaji Hassan Attahiru, has been reportedly kidnapped along Kaduna-Abuja highway Tuesday, a competent source has confirmed.
Empowerment programme, not national cake to be shared — Gov Fintiri warns
Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa has warned that the state’s empowerment programme was meant to eradicate poverty and was not a bonus or national cake to be shared.
