THE Senate Public Accounts Committee, on Thursday, queried the Ministry of Environment over 55 vehicles allegedly missing from its coffers. The Chairman of the Committee, Senator Mathew Urhoghide, relied on the 2018 Auditor General’s report to take the decision.   The AuGF report read in part, “Audit observed that 55 vehicles were not presented for […]

The World Health Organization has scrapped plans for a team that visited Wuhan, China to probe the origins of the coronavirus pandemic to issue an interim report, The Wall Street Journal reported late Thursday. Wuhan is the city where the pandemic is believed to have originated in late 2019. The WHO team returned recently from […]

•Govs adopt NPHCDA sharing formula, to take vaccine March 9 Deji Elumoye and Chuks Okocha in Abuja The federal government yesterday foreclosed access to the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine it received on Tuesday to states without adequate security at their cold stores. Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib, […]

•Urges security agencies to raise Nigeria’s ranking on Global Security Index •Bandit commanders met on giving peace a chance, says Niger SSG •North-east govs back community policing, regional security outfit •Zamfara imposes curfew on Jangebe Ejiofor Alike in Lagos, Deji Elumoye in Abuja, Laleye Dipo in Minna and Francis Sardauna in Katsina President Muhammadu Buhari […]

Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has threatened to shut down the operations of an indigenous oil and gas firm, Brittania U over its anti-labour practice. The acting Chairman, Lagos State Zone, PENGASSAN, Comrade Eyam Abeng, who led union members to picket the company as early as 6 am yesterday in […]

BENUE State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has said his decision to reconcile with his Bauchi State counterpart, Bala Mohammed was taken in the interest of the Peoples Democratic Party and Nigeria. Ortom said this while speaking to reporters at the Makurdi Airport, on Wednesday. He spoke on his return from Rivers State where he had gone […]

THE Senator representing Imo West, in the National Assembly, Rochas Okorocha, has described those behind moves to recall him from the Senate, as “political undertakers.” Okorocha, in a statement issued by his Spokesperson, Sam Onwuemeodo, in Owerri, on Wednesday, referred to members of the Orlu Political Consecutive Assembly, as “adult delinquents.” The statement read in […]

No fewer than two policemen were killed yesterday and their rifles stolen by gunmen in two communities in Cross River State. A Chinese expatriate was also on Tuesday evening kidnapped by bandits in Ekiti State and his whereabouts were yet to be ascertained by security agencies as at yesterday. In the Cross River State incidents, […]

TWO persons were said to have been killed during a fight between Fulani and Yoruba at Aba Abugudu Market in the Atisbo Local Government Area of Oyo State. Also, two members of the Oyo State Security Network Agency known as Amotekun and a vigilante were injured following the fight with happened on Monday. The cause […]

Emma Okonji, Nosa Alekhuogie in Lagos and Alex Enumah in Abuja Ahead of the commencement of COVID-19 vaccination, the federal government yesterday assured Nigerians that it won’t make it mandatory for them to take the vaccine. Minister of State for Health, Dr. Olorunnimbe Mamora, while fielding questions when he appeared on The Morning Show, the […]