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90 million people living with hepatitis in Africa- WHO
By Ajuma Edwina Ameh More than 90 million people are living with hepatitis in Africa, accounting for 26 percent of the global...
CBN stops sale of forex to BDCs, says they’re money laundering agents
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Tuesday has suspended the sale of forex to Bureau De Change, BDCs. Central bank governor Godwin Emefiele,...
Buhari signs N983bn 2021 Supplementary Appropriation Bill into law
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the 2021 Supplementary Appropriation Bill into law. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly...
Cholera: Is Nigeria ready for another epidemic?
As Nigeria remains on red alert for the third wave of COVID-19, another epidemic may be lurking around; Cholera. EDWINA AJUMA AMEH writes on how...
COVID-19 Vaccine Inequality: Okonjo-Iweala urge Nigeria, Africa to produce own vaccines
The Director-General, World Trade Organisation ( WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has criticised what she describes as a worrying imbalance in the distribution...
SERAP sues Buhari, wants court to declare gag order on reporting of terrorist attacks illegal
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development have filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari and Mr...
Produce Igboho’s detained 12 aides in court on July 29, Court orders DSS
Twenty-three days after they were arrested and detained, the 12 aides of Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho have got judicial reprieve as a...
NNPC GMD, Kyari, sons pay Sallah homage to President Buhari in Daura
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Daura, his countryhome, received Mele Kyari the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation...
Igboho: Reject extradition request, he will come to grief if released to Nigeria, Okei-Odumakin tells Benin Republic
…news of lgboho’s arrest hits like a thunderbolt Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, the President, Women Arise and Centre for Change, has described the...
Breaking: Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Igboho, arrested
Chief Sunday Adeyemo a.k.a Igboho Oosa, a Yoruba Nation activist has been arrested. Igboho was arrested at the Cotonou Cadjehoun Airport on Monday...
Massive data leak reveals Israeli NSO Group makes mercenary spyware to silently & remotely hack iPhones & Androids.
A probe by a consortium of news organizations, overseen by Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based journalism nonprofit, reported on Sunday that a private Israeli...
NAF finally confirms crash of Alpha Jet aircraft, says it’s in Zamfara not Kaduna
“On July 18, 2021, around 12.45 pm, a Nigerian Air Force Alpha Jet aircraft, returning from a successful air interdiction mission between the...
Nigerian Air Force refutes Alpha jet crash in Kaduna on Sunday
Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Sunday denied report another of its Alpha jet crashed in Kaduna. NAF’s Director of Public Relations and Information...
Presidency attacks Sokoto Catholic Bishop Matthew Kukah over comments on persecution of Christians in Nigeria
“Kukah’s assertion on only Christian schools being targeted by bandits or terrorists is not supported by the facts on the ground” Miffed...
Two months after, Kaduna records another military aircraft crash
Barely two months after a Nigerian military plane crashed in Kaduna killing Nigeria’s army chief, Lt.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, and 10 others including top...
U.S. Monkeypox case from Nigeria: NCDC says no cause for alarm, no fresh outbreak of virus
…says it will continue to detect and respond to these cases in Nigeria as with other epidemic prone diseases The Nigeria Centre...
