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Nigeria requires N400bn for COVID-19 vaccines for 70 per cent of Nigerians, says Health Minister

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, says about N400 billion will be required to procure COVID-19 vaccines...

Breaking: At last, ASUU ends nine-month long shutting down of nation’s varsities

  After nine months of grounding academic and commercial activities at the nation’s universities, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says it...

Nigeria attains feat in waste-to wealth as Buhari inaugurates NPDC Integrated Gas Handling Facility in Edo

The inauguration of the 200 million standard cubic feet per day capacity integrated Gas Handling Facility (IGHF) and the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)...

Just in: Nigerian Senate okays 2021 N13.5trn Appropriation Bill 

  After an expeditious legislative work, the Nigerian Senate on Monday passed the 2021 Appropriation Bill of N13.5 trlllion. The fiscal estimates are...

Stop NIN registration, threat to block SIM cards, SERAP tells Buhari

  Incensed by the threat to block SIM cards without the National Identity Number (NIN), the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu...

European countries face Christmas lockdown as coronavirus cases surge

  Europeans will follow London by celebrating Christmas under tough lockdown restrictions as cases of coronavirus spread in alarming speed across the continent....

Tragedy: Cross River Police Commissioner is dead

Tragedy struck the nation’s police hierarchy on Saturday morning as the Cross River State Police Commissioner, Mr Jimoh Ibrahim, died of pneumonia complications. The...

Abducted Kastina school boys released, says government spokesman

  Kastina State Government has confirmed the release of the more than 300 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, who were abducted...

Human rights lawyer, expectant wife, slaughtered by suspected herdsmen

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh   A human rights activist and lawyer, Moses Udam and his pregnant wife have been brutally murdered by...

At last, Buhari succumbs to pressures, reopens four of Nigeria’s land borders

  Bowing to International, regional and local pressures, President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday directed the opening of four of the land borders shut...

Polaris Bank offers Yuletide no-collateral salary advance for shopping

  Polaris Bank has announced a Yuletide salary advance for both existing account holders and non-account holders. The bank said the facility will...

Breaking: World Bank grants Nigeria’s $1.5bn loan

  After several months of application, the World Bank has finally approved Nigeria’s $1.5 billion loan. The facility was prepared jointly with the...

Insurgency, Banditry in Nigeria: We are fed up, says Sultan

  Peeved with violent extremism and insurgency, the Sultan of Sokoto and Co-Chairman of National Council of Traditional Rulers, Sa’ad Abubakar, says they...

Amnesty International applauds ICC’s probe of Nigerian military for alleged war crimes

    Amnesty International says the International Criminal Court’s decision to launch a probe into the alleged war crimes records of the Nigerian...

600 Kastina school children abduction: Nigeria is a nation at war, says Soyinka

600 Kastina school children abduction: Nigeria is a nation at war, says Soyinka     Nigeria is at war and at war within...

ICC prosecutor set to open Nigeria war crimes investigation

  The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor says a decade-long probe has found enough evidence to merit opening a full-scale investigation into allegations...