Covid-19 vaccine Available to Nigeria from Jan. 2021, Okonjo Iweala assures
Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has assured Nigeria and other African countries of being able to access COVID-19 vaccines from late January through the first quarter of…
Insecurity: Malami says N/Assembly lacks Power to invite Buhari
Nigeria’s Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has declared that the National Assembly lacks the power to invite President Muhammadu Buhari to brief it…
Work has started on 2023 elections, Yakubu says as he Begins his second term
Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, declared on Wednesday that preparations for the 2023 general elections have started. Yakubu made the declaration in an interview with…
NCC Suspends new SIM sale, registration over Security Concerns
The Nigerian Communications Commission has directed Mobile Network Operators to immediately halt the sale and activation of new SIM cards to allow an audit of the Subscriber Registration Database. In…
Gunmen Kidnap Taraba House of Assembly member
Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped a member representing Nguroje Constituency in the Taraba House of Assembly, Bashir Mohammed. A family source said the lawmaker was kidnapped from his house, which is…
Editorial: APC and the real trouble with Nigeria
If yesterday’s decision by the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to dissolve all state, zonal and national structures; and the on-going crisis in the ruling…
APC dissolves wards, state, zonal, national Structures
The National Executive Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress rose from its emergency meeting on Tuesday with the dissolution of all states, zonal, and national party structures. It also…
Nigeria’s Opeifa shares in $1m Global Teacher Prize
Nigerian teacher Olasunkanmi Opeifa, named a Top 10 finalist for the Global Teacher Prize 2020, in partnership with UNESCO, expressed his surprise and gratitude as winner Ranjitsinh Disale from India…
Nigeria Kicks as US Adds Country to Religious Freedom Blacklist
Nigeria has denied the allegation, by the United States, of engaging in systematic and egregious religious freedom violations. The United States on Monday placed the country for the first time…
Nigeria Reduces Petrol Price by N5 after talks with Labour
The Nigerian government has said it would cut the price of petrol by N5, which will take the price to N162.44 per litre. The government said this new price will…