The federal government and the 36 states have resolved to compensate victims of the #ENDSARS protests that rocked several states in October last year, as well as prosecute all persons indicted by the panels set up to investigate the protests. They also urged youths planning to commemorate the one year anniversary of the protests with […]

The Federal Government has eased the travel protocols for fully vaccinated passengers arriving in the country. According to the new protocols, fully vaccinated passengers would not be required to observe the seven-day isolation  but would do a COVID-19 PCR test on the second day of arrival. The Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee and Secretary […]

With the dusts raised by the local government congresses of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yet to settle, the party is today going ahead with its state congresses, to elect officials for these levels of its structures. The scenario of the local government congresses, characterised by protests, boycotts, and the election of parallel executives by […]

The federal government has said it would pay the sum of N22. 172 billion Earned Allowances to all workers in the universities on or before October 30, 2021. It assured that the amount had been provided for in the 2021 Supplementary Budget. Government also said that it would commence disbursement of the N30 billion revitalisation […]

The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, on Thursday, nominated the former National Secretary of the party, Prof. Wale Oladipo for the post of Deputy National Chairman (South) ahead of the forthcoming PDP national convention. Oladipo emerged as the sole candidate at a meeting held at the State PDP Secretariat. The meeting was […]

The World Health Organisation on Thursday said deaths from Tuberculosis, one of the top infectious killers in the world, increased for the first time in a decade, as a direct result of the Coronavirus pandemic. WHO’s 2021 Global TB report highlighted how years of global progress in tackling the disease had been “reversed” since the […]

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday, said the seizure of funds belonging to local governments in Lagos State by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2005 provided ample opportunity for Lagos to think like a sovereign state able to overcome its financial challenges. Osinbajo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), said the capacity of the state to […]

Following the federal government’s December deadline for civil servants to get the COVID-19 vaccination as precondition for accessing their offices, the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) has expressed its commitment to ramping up vaccine uptake across the country. The agency said it had put in place plans for the establishment of mass vaccination sites […]

  Federal government workers across the country will from December 1 be required to present proof of COVID-19 vaccination before reporting at work. Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Chairman, Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, Mr. Boss Mustapha, announced the new policy decision yesterday in Abuja at a PSC briefing. Mustapha said […]

The Director General of National Inland Waterways and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Chief George Moghalu, in this interview says his decision to challenge the outcome of the Anambra governorship primary election in courr was to halt impunity. Excerpts from Adedayo Akinwale You contested the primary of the APC Governorship primary in Anambra […]