[This Day] The United Kingdom Government has exempted Nigeria from a list of 30 countries that have been banned from entering the UK over rising COVID-19 cases.

[This Day] The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected that Nigeria's capital spending will improve this year while anticipating that financing the country's deficit will remain a challenge with its huge debt servicing burden.

[DW] The energy giant will have to pay four Nigerian farmers compensation and start a cleanup over pollution caused by leaking oil pipelines in the Niger Delta.

[This Day] Nigeria has lost the West African air market to Ghana as today no Nigerian airline is operating to destinations such as Accra, Abidjan, Dakar, Freetown, Monrovia and the Gambia.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Health experts warn COVID-19 could hamper efforts to tackle trachoma, the leading infectious cause of blindness in the world

[IPS] As Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, reportedly experienced a massive shortage of oxygen cylinders last week -- with demand increasing fivefold in one of the city's main hospitals just as the country recorded some of its highest number of coronavi...

[This is Africa] Burna Boy's critical single "20 10 20" highlights the emancipatory triad of protest art, people power movements and social media. Young African protesters are using their own platforms to undermine the coordinated abuses of state vio...

[This Day] Kano -- Former Governor of Jigawa State, Mr. Sule Lamido, has berated the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmad Tinubu, for being indifferent over the Fulanis' travails in the South-western region of Ni...

[This Day] Yesterday Air Peace received the first of the 13 brand new E195-E2 it ordered from Brazil-based aircraft manufacturer, Embraer.

[This Day] Abuja and Lagos -- The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday announced sales proceeds of N1.95 trillion from white products, mainly petrol, between October 2019 and the same period in 2020.

[This Day] Abuja -- The Senate yesterday took on the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, over his allegation that the lawmakers are ignoring the clamour for restructuring the country, saying that the controversial issue is one of the issues to be con...

[This Day] Members of the organised private sector (OPS) have expressed divergent views on the move by the federal government to begin the implementation of the reduction in the import levies on automobiles as contained in the 2020 Finance Act.

[This Day] Nigeria needs as much fuel as it can refine. With the roaring into life of modular refineries, the nation's journey to self-sufficiency has begun.

[Premium Times] Former governor Kashim Shettima last year moved a motion at the Senate for the replacement of the service chiefs.

[Premium Times] The presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina, announced the appointment of the service chiefs on Tuesday.

[Premium Times] Late Mr Sylvanus Nsofor retired as a justice of the Supreme Court before his appointment as Nigeria's ambassador to the U.S.

[CISA] Abuja -- Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Abuja has appealed to the government of Nigeria to do their part in curbing the cases of kidnapping in the country.

[This Day] The out-of-court settlement sought by the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Adams Oshiomhole in the N10billion libel suit filed against him by Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has collapsed.

[This Day] Kaduna -- Four people have been killed while 10 others were abducted by bandits in separate attacks on communities in Igabi Chikun and Kajuru Local Government Areas of Kaduna State.

[This Day] With the rising cases of transmission, high records of deaths, extremely stretched health care systems, the second wave of covid-19 looks like playing 2020 over again across global borders. Possibly more than what obtained in the first wav...

[This Day] The Minister of State for Transportation, Senator Gbemisola Saraki, has stated that unworthiness of indigenous vessels, insecurity, collapsed and inadequate infrastructure occasioned by lack of policy document are challenges that have stun...

[This Day] Candidate for a seat on the venerable FIFA Council, the highest decision-making organ in football in the universe, Amaju Melvin Pinnick will on Saturday be honoured with a Special Recognition Award at the maiden edition of the Sportsville ...

[This Day] Abuja -- The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has warned against the introduction of politics into the current security challenges in Yoruba land , cautioning against the push by non-state actors to resort to self-help.

[This Day] The Lagos State Government has announced the restriction of truck drivers within the state, especially on the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway.

[This Day] Abuja -- The Senate has summoned the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms Hadiza Bala Usman over the non-payment of N1.16 billion voted for the payment of the retirees' gratuity in 2018.

[This Day] Abuja -- Former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, yesterday handed over command to the new Army Chief, Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru.

[This Day] Abuja -- President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan yesterday rejected the $30 per barrel production cost of the nation's crude oil, saying it is too high when compared to what is obtainable in other oil producing nations.

[This Day] Abuja -- President Muhammadu Buhari has approved an investment of N50 billion in Nigeria Commodity Exchange (NCX) as part of efforts to reposition it.

[This Day] Abuja -- The Inspector-General of Police (IG), Mr. Mohammed Adamu, yesterday presented 39 cheques amounting to over N160 million to families of officers, who lost their lives during the #EndSARS protest hijacked by hoodlums in some parts o...

[This Day] The Healthcare Federation of Nigeria (HFN) has appealed for government to consider harnessing the vast expertise and resources within the Nigerian private sector in order to ensure a successful roll-out of Covid19 vaccines. This appeal was...