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Concerns over new virus from China prompt airport screenings for passengers arriving airports in Nigeria

  Passengers  arriving Nigerian airports will undergo enhanced health screenings out of concern over a new coronavirus that has killed two people in Asia, the Federal Airports...

U.S Set to Expand Travel Restrictions to Nigeria, Sudan, Others – Target ‘Birth Tourism’

  The Trump administration is set to add Nigeria and six other countries to a group of nations subject to travel restrictions, Per...

NNPC GMD, Kyari announces HDDT to check pipeline vandalism 

  As part of measures to monitor and check pipeline vandalism, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is to deplore Horizontal Directional Drilling Technology...

Breaking: ln Imo, 9 lawmakers defect to APC 

    Nine lawmakers of the Imo State House of Assembly have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) which has no lawmaker...

Cheaper petrol of N97 per litre coming, says Nigeria’s Petroleum Minister

  As part of initiatives to give Nigerians cheaper petrol, the Federal Government says it is considering providing alternative petrol lower than the...

Buhari appoints Dr. Kingsley Obiora as new CBN deputy governor

  President Muhammadu Buhari has nominated Kingsley Obiora as the deputy Governor of the Central  Bank of Nigeria. The president has also forwarded...

ECOWAS Monetary Convergence Council Rejects Planned Name “Eco” For Single Currency

The West African Monetary zone Thursday rejected the move by eight French speaking ECOWAS members to unilaterally name the planned regional single currency...

American-Nigerian teenage girl’s mite excites needy, visually-impaired school children in Lagos

  … Pacelli School for the Blind: May God bless and reward you abundantly for your support   Giving to humanity by well-meaning...

VP Osinbajo pledges more infrastructure, investment in Buhari’s second term

  The vice president Prof Yemi Osinbajo has revealed the Federal Government will continue to implement game-changing infrastructure projects around the country to...

Southwest’s “Amotekun’’: Buhari’s ally, Sagay says it’s legal

    …“I’m positively disposed to it’’   Amid controversy trailing the inauguration of “Operation Amotekun’’  by Southwest governors, an ally of President...

Oil Upstream, power, gas development: Russia to partner NNPC — Ambassador 

    As part of initiatives to develop Nigeria’s upstream, gas and power sectors, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says the Russian government has agreed to partner...

“Amotekun”: Gov. Lalong backs Southwest, says North ready for similar outfit

  Barely 24 hours after “Amotekun” was launched in Southwest, Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong, has thrown his weight behind it, saying it...

NUC removes Mass Communications degrees from Nigerian universities

Unbundles it into seven separate degree programmes   There will be no more Mass Communications as a degree programme in universities in Nigeria,...

Hours after Iran’s retaliatory strikes, Ukrainian airline crashes near Tehran airport, killing 176 on board

  Hours after Iran fired some missiles at U.S. embassy in Iraq, a Ukrainian airliner with 176 passengers and crew onboard has crashed...