Author: Olabanji Ayoola

Lagos begins public vaccination, sets up 88 centres Lagos State Government on Friday commenced its COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccination programme with Health Commissioner Akin Abayomi leading the way at the Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH), Yaba. He was followed by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Deputy Governor Obafemi Hamzat. Sanwo-Olu took the injection at 3:03p.m. while Hamzat was […]

Members of the House of Representatives have asked the Chief of Army Staff, Major-General Ibrahim Attahiru, to explain how weapons purchased for the military and police end up in the hands of bandits and miscreants. The House ad-hoc committee on the need to review the purchase, use and control of arms, ammunition and related hardware by military, […]

The Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) to President Muhammadu Buhari, Maj-Gen. Babagana Monguno, has said that the NSA was misquoted on the interview with the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Monguno was quoted to have said that the government was not aware of how monies meant for the purchase of […]

How Labour’s threats forced govt’s climbdown Sylva, Ngige, NNPC insist no immediate increase PPPRA deletes template hours after announcing hike Fresh price increase invitation to mass protest – PDP Panic-buying, queues at stations in Lagos, Abuja, others The downstream sector of the Nigerian oil industry was on Friday thrown into confusion following speculations that petrol […]

Nigeria’s petrol price regulator has pulled down the pricing template for March a few hours after it published it. “PLEASE BE INFORMED THAT PUBLISHED PRICES ARE ONLY INDICATIVE OF CURRENT MARKET TRENDS,” Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency said on Friday after deleting the template. The agency is reacting to the nationwide outcry that welcomed the […]

The National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) has dissolved its executives in Ondo State. National President Alhaji Tajudeen Ibikunle Baruwa said in Abuja that the union had also initiated a process for setting up of a caretaker committee to be led by Chief Olalekan Folorunsho, the South West Zone 2 chairman, to oversee the […]

Photo: Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 287 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 159,933. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Thursday. The country has tested 1,601,396 people since the first confirmed case relating to […]