The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has registered 48 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 162,641. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the country’s daily new cases continue to follow a downward trajectory. From an […]

THE Bayelsa State Livestock Management Committee has issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria and other operators to move their livestock out of the state. Chairman of the 23-man committee and Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mr David Alagoa, said this in an interview with journalists after a […]

… Says administration working to use gas resources to industrialise nation … Launches ‘Decade of Gas in Nigeria’ President Muhammadu Buhari has reassured of his administration’s poise to fully utilise Nigeria’s abundant gas resources to expand the economy and improve industrialisation. President Buhari spoke on Monday during his virtual participation at the Nigeria International Petroleum Summit […]

In a year thick with bad news much of it economic and health care, it is perhaps not surprising that all has been quiet in the well-known Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) acrimonious political culture. Things have not been the same with Africa’s largest opposition party since it lost the 2019 presidential election to the rival, […]

The Social Democratic Party has prayed to God to forbid the ruling All Progressives Congress from retaining power after the 2023 general elections. The opposition party said it is the wish of Nigerians that the APC rule ends with the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Speaking to our correspondent on Friday, […]

The total value of pension assets in the country dropped by N77 billion to N12.299 trillion as of January 31, 2021, compared with the N12.306 trillion it was as of December 31, 2020. The National Pension Commission (PenCom), in its latest monthly report on the pension fund portfolio obtained on its website yesterday, put the […]

Some gunmen had abducted three passengers in Osu town, along Ife-Ilesha Expressway in Osun State. One of those abducted, identified simplyas Usman, was said to be brother of Seriki Hausa of Iyere town, while identities of the other two victims could not be immediately ascertained. The victims were said to have been taken to a […]

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has resolved to commence “a total and indefinite strike” on April 1, 2021, by 8am if the Federal Government refuses to accede to its demands. This was the outcome of its Extraordinary National Executive Council meeting on Saturday at the Trauma Center of National Hospital Abuja. The communique of […]

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has so far paid a total of $3.118 billion cash-call debts owed the five major international oil companies (IOCs), leaving an outstanding debt of $1.570, according to statistics released by the corporation. The statistics showed that NNPC funded its Jt Venture (JV) oil and gas assets as well as […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Strategy and Contact Committee Chairman, Mohammed Abubakar Badaru, yesterday said stories about alleged rift between President Buhari and former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu were being pushed by some unnamed people to heat up the polity. He said, “I think people wanted to see that and that will not […]