[DW] Despite recent growth in internet connectivity, Africa lags behind other regions of the world. The World Bank hopes to enable the continent to achieve universal connectivity by 2030, but huge hurdles stand in the way.

[Premium Times] The vice-chancellor of the university, AbdulRasheed Na'Allah, announced the release of the victims in a statement

[This Day] Deji Elumoye in Abuja

[This Day] Chinedu Eze writes that due to infrastructural, environmental and managerial factors, Nigerian airlines underutilise their aircraft, which has negative impact on their profitability.

[This Day] The MTN Group has disclosed plan to proceed with a public offer of up to 575 million shares in its Nigerian subsidiary, MTN Nigeria Communications Plc.

[Premium Times] MTN wants as much as 75 per cent cut and a validity period extension by 10 years.

[This Day] In line with Nigeria's agreement to the Paris Accord zeroed towards curbing global warming and its negative effects on the environment, the federal government has outlined measures to ensure combustion engines are phased out by 2060 while ...

[This Day] The federal government has been advised to allow COVID-19 vaccines from China to be administered in the country.

[This Day] Chairman of the National Peace Committee (NPC) and former Head of State, General Abdulsalamii Abubakar, has appealed to political parties and their candidates in Anambra State to accept the outcome of tomorrow's governorship election once ...

[Vanguard] THE Human Rights Writers Association, HURIWA, has berated the Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen, and her counterpart in the Ministry of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, over their inaction following the brutal rape and attendant...

[Vanguard] Unconfirmed reports suggest that a top staff of the Murtala Mohammed Airport, MMA, Engr Musa, who was last week declared missing by his family, has been reportedly found dead at a Lagos canal.

[Premium Times] The fresh cases have raised the total number of confirmed infections in Nigeria to 212,446.

[Premium Times] The research effort, which recently concluded its animal trial based on an approval from the Oyo State ministry of health, has been listed by the WHO as number 61 out of 185 vaccine candidates globally.

[Vanguard] The Central Bank of Nigeria spent the sum of N58.6 billion to print 2.52 billion Naira notes valued at N1.1 trillion in 2020.

[Leadership] In a very curious manner, the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning is planning to spend a whopping N130.458 billion on vague intervention programmes under the title of 'service-wide votes' in 2022.

[Leadership] In a bid to put an end to cases of stowaway in the nation's seaports, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has introduced new measures to check security threats in the Nigerian maritime domain and deter persons...

[Vanguard] FOLLOWING the withdrawal of soldiers from all checkpoints on major highways across Ondo State, the Police Command, yesterday, deployed its officers to man the abandoned checkpoints on major border areas in the state.

[Vanguard] Abuja -- Secretary of the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Board of the Ministry of Interior, Mrs Aisha Rufai has mulled the recruitment of more officers to prevent incidences of prisons breaks.

[Vanguard] The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has announced two deaths and 87 new cases of COVID-19 in the country.

[This Day] It is very tempting to just sit back and black out the daily horrors bombarding Nigeria. These include the mindless carnage and butchery of human lives, the sheer audacity of terrorists/bandits armed with the capacity to shoot down fighter...

[This Day] The immediate past Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has faulted the Governor, Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, for spending N16 billion on building a law school without ap...

[This Day] Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri

[This Day] Udora Orizu in Abuja

[This Day] Eromosele Abiodun writes that to restore investors' confidence in Nigeria's fledging maritime sector, the allegation by the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) that the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, illegally awarded a contrac...

[This Day] Nosike Ogbuenyi urges the governors to honour the agreement they freely entered

[This Day] The Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume, yesterday called for an increased budget for the Nigerian Army following the reduction of 2022 army allocation to N28bn.

[This Day] Abuja -- The National Assembly Joint Committee on Land and Marine Transport has faulted the proposal of the Minister of Transport, Hon Rotimi Amaechi to construct standard narrow gauge for the Kano-Maradi Rail line as against old narrow ga...

[This Day] Benin City -- Abductors of two pupils of Glory Land Group of Schools Igarra, in Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of Edo State have demanded N100 million ransom.

[Africa Check] A message posted on Facebook on 23 October 2021 quotes the United States government as warning the Nigerian government to only use the Super Tucano fighter jets it sold to Nigeria in the northern part of the country.

[Vanguard] Abuja -- Six persons abducted by bandits on Tuesday from the University of Abuja Staff Quarters,have been rescued.