75 doctors infected in one week 57m vaccine doses to come in batches Kogi declared high-risk state Fatality rate rises by 34% Nigeria lost 405 persons to coronavirus in the last two months, the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 said on Monday. Seventy-five health workers were infected last week, according to the Nigeria Centre […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to ask the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami to coordinate the sale of assets forfeited to the Federal Government is to ensure uniformity and transparency, Dayo Apata (SAN) has said. Apata, who is the Solicitor General of the Federation and Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry […]
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A Kaduna State High Court has adjourned indefinitely, a suit filed by a political group, Nasiriyya Organisation 2023, asking it to compel Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State to contest the 2023 presidential election. The Presiding Judge, Justice Nasiru Umar adjourned the case for failure of the group’s counsel to serve the national secretariat of […]
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The Federal Government has extended the deadline for linkage of National Identity Numbers with Subscribers Identity Module (SIM) cards by eight weeks. Consequently, the new dealine has been shifted from February 9 to April 6, 2021. A statement jointly signed by the spokesmen of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the National Identity Management Commission […]
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Ex-Information Minister, celebrated Journalist, administrator, politician dies at 81 Death sneaked into the media on Monday, snatching former Information and Culture Minister Prince Tony Momoh. The eminent journalist, politician and lawyer passed on in Abuja. He was 81. Momoh, a prince of Auchi Kingdom, Edo State, was the national chairman of the defunct Congress for […]
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Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has advocated state police as a solution to insecurity in Nigeria. He spoke on Sunday night in Igboora. The governor met with stakeholders, including local government chairmen, in Oke-Ogun and political officeholders. The stakeholders who attended the meeting include political office holders from Ibarapa Central, Ibarapa East, and Ibarapa North. […]
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The Federal Government on Tuesday said it has commenced the process of disposing final forfeited assets currently situated in 25 locations across the country. Chairman of the Inter ministerial committee on the disposal of Federal Government of Nigeria forfeited assets and Solicitor-General of the Federation, Dayo Apata (SAN), who disclosed this to newsmen in Abuja, […]
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This picture, taken on February 1, 2021, shows vials of Russian Sputnik V vaccine in Belgrade Fair turned into a vaccination centre. – Serbia continues a mass Covid-19 vaccination campaign and became the first European country to use Chinese-made Sinopharm vaccine, after receiving one million doses of the Sinopharm vaccine, on January 16, 2021. Beside […]
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The leadership of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has applauded the governors of the southeast states for banning open grazing in the region. In a statement on Tuesday by its Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful, it thanked the governors for respecting the wishes of the people of the zone. The group said that […]
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Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo (a.k.a. Sunday Igboho), yesterday, stormed Ogun State, insisting that killer-herdsmen must vacate Yorubaland. He, alongside his supporters, arrived in Abeokuta, the state capital and immediately proceeded to some troubled areas in Yewaland in Ogun West Senatorial District. His visit was in continuation of his campaign against the marauding herdsmen in […]
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