Nigeria

COVID-19 100 days : FG to establish infectious disease laboratory in 36 states, FCT

As Nigeria marks 100 days of the outbreak of Coronavirus pandemic, the Federal Government says it plans to set up at least one...

SGF Mustapha lays NNPC hospital foundation in Maiduguri, lauds Gov. Zulum’s performance 

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, on Saturday performed the ground breaking for the construction of an Infectious Diseases...

13-year-old gang raped by four youths in Kaduna as reported cases soar in Nigeria

  A 13-year-old girl in Kaduna was allegedly gang-raped by four men after she was drugged,  the Kaduna State Ministry of Human Services...

N33bn SDGs budget controversy: NASS clears Orelope-Adefulire

  The House of Representatives Committee on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has absolved Mrs Victoria Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, the Senior Special Assistant to the...

NNPC alerts of contaminated diesel in circulation

    The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has alerted the public of contaminated diesel that is harmful to machines and environment being sold...

COVID-19 : Organized Private Sector lauds CBN’s intervention in manufacturing and agribusiness sectors 

    The Central Bank of Nigeria’s planned disbursement of N93.2 billion out of N1 trillion intervention fund for manufacturing and agribusiness sectors has...

Subsidy removal: Petrol marketers now to fix pump price 

      In line with the new pricing regime for petrol, marketers are now free to fix the price of the commodity, the Petroleum...

Tragedy: DPO, seven other policemen, women  killed in Kogi 

  Armed robbers struck at a branch of a first generation bank in lsanlu, Kogi State, on Thursday leaving a trail of murders of nine...

Nigeria nominates Okonjo-Iweala for DG, World Trade Organization

  Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, has been nominated for election as the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)...

Police nab three dare-devil siblings for kidnap, murder of widow

  Three bloodthirsty siblings, who allegedly kidnapped and gruesomely murdered a 55-year old mother of five in Abuja and bolted to Imo State,...

Senate Probe Panel Indicts Akpabio Over NDDC N500m Project Scam

  The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Sen. Godswill Akpabio, may have soiled his hands in a N500 million Niger Delta Development Commission’s project...

Multi-billion naira fraud at NIRSAL a hoax, unfounded – Management

    Contrary to an online media report of a multi-billion naira fraud at the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending...

The NCDC reports there are now 11,166 coronavirus cases in Nigeria

  The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday reported at least 348 new cases of coronavirus in Nigeria.     Breakdown of...

Five states N148bn richer as FG approves refund for federal roads rehabilitation

    Following the approval of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), five states are to get N148.14 billion as refunds for rehabilitating or...

Why FG is cash-strapped, by Information Minister

      The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has attacked all Nigeria’s revenue sources, leaving the Federal Government cash-strapped, the Minister of Information and...

COVID-19: NNPC unveils contact tracing App

  In a strategic move to curb the spread of COVID-19 pandemic in its organization and government offices, the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation...