Covid 19
G-77: Nigeria committed to partnerships in resolving global challenges — VP Shettima
Nigeria’s Vice-President, Sen. Kashim Shettima, has expressed Nigeria’s readiness and commitment to tow the path of partnership with member-states of the G-77+China towards...
NSIA’s Audited Financial Results: Net Assets Grow By 10.5% To N1.02trn and volatility, headwinds across markets
In spite of volatility and headwinds across markets, the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), managers of Nigeria’s sovereign wealth fund, has recorded net...
Fatal raping of Philosophy grad, Umoren: Daredevil Uyo man, Uduak Akpan, gets hangman’s knot
After 16 months of trial for violently raping and killing a graduate job-seeker, a dare-devil Uyo boy, Uduak Akpan, is to get the...
Enugu agog as Bayelsa, Rivers win Milo Basketball Championships
Bayelsa and Rivers states teams set Enugu, “The Coal City’’, agog as they emerged champions in the girls and boys categories respectively at...
Just in: Nigeria and Ghana lift COVID-19 restrictions, limitations on gatherings
Nigeria and Ghana have lifted COVID-19 restrictions following a declining number of cases and reduced risk of importation of new variants. In Nigeria,...
Buhari’s promise unattainable as Ajaokuta Steel Rolling Mill restoration stalled, says Minister
The promise by the Buhari administration to revive the moribund Ajaokuta Steel Rolling Complex is no longer realistic, Mines and Steel Development Minister...
Ukraine-Russia war: 193 Nigerians of the 2,357 evacuees test positive for COVID-19 – SGF Mustapha
No fewer than 193 Nigerians out of the 2,357 evacuated from the war-torn Ukraine tested positive for COVID-19, the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC)...
Nigeria, 5 other African countries to begin Covid-19 vaccines production, says WHO
By Ajuma Edwina Ameh With the African continent having limited access to COVID-19 jabs, Nigeria and five other African countries have...
COVID-19: CBN says over N3trn loans disbursed to revive economy, create jobs
By Ajuma Edwina Ameh To facilitate economic recovery and generate employment opportunities in the wake of the...
Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, humiliates COVID-19, recuperating
Few days after he contracted COVID-19, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu,...
Nigeria’s seat of power — Presidential Villa, Abuja — hit by pangs of COVID-19
The transmission of corona virus by some aides of President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, has been confirmed. The aides including...
COVID-19: FG says it has destroyed about 1m doses of expired AstraZeneca vaccine
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) said that they...
Global debt surged to $226 trillion in 2020, says IMF
Global debt soared to $226 trillion in 2020, the largest one-year debt surge since the Second World War, the International Monetary Fund said. “Debt...
Omicron: UAE averts diplomatic faceoff with Nigeria, reverses ban on Nigerian airlines
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has recanted its earlier directive to airlines operating from Nigeria to Dubai not to fly passengers from...
Omicron: FG bans flights from Canada, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia
By Ajuma Edwina Ameh In a retaliatory action taken against Canada, the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia, the Federal Government has announced...
