*Nigeria requires about $283m to obtain 42m doses By Sola Ogundipe with Agency report African countries will pay between $3 and $10 per vaccine dose to access 270 million COVID-19 shots secured this month by the African Union (AU), according to a draft briefing on the plan prepared by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and […]

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) says it will continue to deepen partnership with the UN Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) to fight trafficking in person in the country. The Director-General of NAPTIP, Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, made this known when she received the Country Representative of UNODC, Mr Oliver Stolpe, and […]

IN continuation of his statewide projects inspection and commissioning programme tagged “Kinetic Abia Tours”, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State will, on January 22, commission three roads he reconstructed in Aba.

In his first message to foreign nations as president, Joe Biden vowed to repair the U.S.’ alliances with other nations.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State  has ordered an immediate investigation into the death of a woman and her daughter in Warri on Wednesday. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Olisa Ifeajika, in Asaba, the governor decried the incident and charged police authorities in the state to commence an urgent and accelerated […]

As Nigeria grapples with rising infections caused by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, a team of international public health, researchers have revealed that the lockdown and restrictions imposed in the country between March and May 2020 may have averted not less than 5.8 million infections.

Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs, on Wednesday, threw their weight behind governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, insisting the ultimatum he gave unregistered herders to vacate forest reserves in the state was not unconstitutional.

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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered that no subscriber should be blocked from telecom operators’ networks till February 9. This is as the Federal government, Wednesday, made it official that the deadline for subscribers to have their SIMs linked to their National Identity Numbers, NINs, has shifted from January 19 to February 9.

The Ijaw Youths Council, IYC, Worldwide has stated that the Federal Government has failed to take the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, beyond disarmament and demobilisation, stating that the people the programme has failed.

GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike on Wednesday announced a pledge of Five Hundred Million Naira (N500m) as Rivers State Government support towards rebuilding the Sokoto Central Market gutted by fire on Tuesday and to assist affected traders to get back on their feet.

Donald Trump surrendered to the constitutional mandate of the US on Wednesday when he left the White House as the 45th President of America.

The Police on Wednesday said it had arrested 25 suspects in connection with kidnapping, armed robbery, murder, cattle rustling, unlawful possession of weapons, and other violent crimes across the country. The Force Public Relations Officers (FPRO), CP Frank Mba, disclosed this at a media briefing in Abuja. He said that a total of five AK47 […]

Ola Ajayi – Ibadan Senior Elders Forum of the Yoruba Council of Elders has said the position of the Presidency on the seven-day ultimatum given to herders by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu to vacate forest reserves in Ondo State is a source of concern to people in the six states of the South West. The elders […]

South Africa’s annual Consumer Price Index (CPI) for 2020 was at 3.3 per cent, the lowest inflation recorded since 2004, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Wednesday. Stats SA attributed food and non-alcoholic beverages as the main drivers of inflation in December with a monthly increase of 0.5 per cent and an annual rise […]