Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (middle) and participants at the National Dialogue Forum on Girls in Abuja…yesterday. Phto: Pilip Ojisua Urges states to domesticate VAPP, CRA Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said most of the problems associated with Nigeria’s education sector are responsibilities of state governments, stressing that the Federal Government’s job is to provide support. […]
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The World Health Organisation has appointed the Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Chikwe Ihekweazu, as its Assistant Director General of Health Emergency Intelligence. He is set to assume duty on November 1, 2021. WHO Director General, Tedros Ghebreyesus. disclosed this in a letter addressed to all staff members of the organisation. […]
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In this file photo taken on June 20, 2021 a resident receives a dose of vaccine against Covid-19. (Photo by Andre Borges / AFP) Court restrains Obaseki from making vaccination compulsory Edo civil servants get seven-day ultimatum to get inoculated New C.1.2. COVID-19 variant not spreading, says WHO Amid reactions to the declaration by Edo […]
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The Federal Government, on Tuesday, hinted that it might sanction anybody who refused to take COVID-19 vaccines after they had been made available to all Nigerians. Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib, gave the hint of possible sanctions at a press briefing in Abuja. This was as a Federal High […]
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The Senior Special Adviser to the President of the Africa Development Bank on Industrialisation, Prof Banji Oyeyinka, has disclosed that $520m has been earmarked for the development of the first phase of Special Agro-industrial Processing Zones in some selected states across Nigeria. According to him, the AfDB committed $160m; the Africa Growing Together Fund $50m; […]
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Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Yemi Akinwonmi, on Tuesday, led a delegation of party leaders to visit ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan, in his Abuja residence. Those on Akinwonmi’s delegation were Daisi Akintan, former caretaker secretary of the PDP in the South-West and the secretary of ex-officio forum and a member of the National […]
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Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has called on Nigerians to defend themselves against bandits, saying they have declared war on the country. It also insisted that there must be restructuring in order to solve the problems bedevilling the country, adding that it must be before the next elections in the country. It stressed that this is […]
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Oyo anti-open grazing law not effective two years after Afenifere raises concerns over alleged deployment of Northern youths Enugu residents seek enactment of anti-open grazing law Katsina bans inter-state transport of cattle Niger suspends cattle markets over insecurity Few hours after he suspended all activities in the state’s forest reserves, Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, […]
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The Federal Government, on Tuesday, hinted that it might sanction anybody who refused to take COVID-19 vaccines after they had been made available to all Nigerians. Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib, gave the hint of possible sanctions at a press briefing in Abuja. This was as a Federal High […]
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Lalong relaxes 24-hour curfew in Jos North NANS summons emergency security summit ‘Don’t resort to self-help’ Plateau Assembly sealed. No, it’s not true, says Govt President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that his administration is on top of events and is moving ahead with force to crush the perpetrators of the recent incidents of unrest […]
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