[Premium Times] Exposure to violence was highest among women in Kenya (80%), Morocco (69%), Jordan (49%), and Nigeria (48%). Those in Paraguay were the least likely to report such experiences, at 25%.

[Vanguard] Nigerian traders on Wednesday flayed ECOWAS' silence over the closure of borders by the Ghana government, thus violating the policy on free movement in the region.

[This Day] Abuja -- Nigeria's national carrier, Air Nigeria, is set to commence operations by April 2022, the Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, has said.

[The Conversation Africa] Recent inflation numbers from Nigeria are creating serious concern over the rising cost of food items in the country. But this is not Nigerians' first encounter with food prices running hot, as the spikes date back roughly t...

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Nigeria's affordable housing push has led to a boom in new homes, but high construction costs and a lack of development tax mean the majority are too big and expensive for those who need them most

[This Day] Maiduguri -- United Nations Children Fund, (UNICEF) has said that 7,728 toilet facilities were constructed for various communities in the North-east zone of the country between 2018 to date under its campaign against open defecation.

[This Day] Notwithstanding threats posed by the Islamist insurgency in the north, clashes between Fulani herdsmen and pastoralists in the Middle Belt region as well as growing unrest in the South which have continued to threaten the country's existen...

[Premium Times] "We thought they would rob us of some of the farm produce, but they don't want the produce and would not let us benefit from our hard work"

[WHO-AFRO] The World Health Organization is supporting the Federal Government in raising awareness among health workers and Nigerians on the need for caution on antibiotics use to prevent a future public health emergency.

[WHO-AFRO] The National Primary Health Care and Development Agency (NPHCDA), World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, Gavi, the global vaccine alliance, and partners are working to boost population immunity against measles, meningitis, and yellow fev...

[This Day] The second Intra Africa Trade Fair (IATF 2021), which took place in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, in South Africa, has raised the hope on stronger bilateral trade between Nigeria and other African countries, just as it closed with business deals ...

[This Day] Abuja -- The North East Development Commission (NEDC), has canvassed for increase in its allocation from Value Added Tax (VAT) and Ecological Fund from three per cent to five per cent.

[This Day] Nigerian construction firms have called on the federal government to protect their business from unfavourable competition with Chinese and other foreign construction companies by launching policies that would grant them access to funding a...

[This Day] Osogbo -- As crisis engulfed the selection of a candidate for the throne of Akinrun of Ikirun land in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Osun State, the kingmakers have said that the process and procedures were clear enough.

[This Day] Minna -- The Secretary to the Niger State Government(SSG), Alhaji Ahmed Matane, has said that insecurity has persisted in the state despite government efforts because of the large land mass which he puts at 10 per cent of the total land ma...

[This Day] Study Results by Performance Monitoring Action in 2014, with updated dissemination by Lagos State in March 2021, revealed that 6000 Nigerian women die from unsafe abortion-related complications every 12 months.

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[This Day] Abuja -- The Governor of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, yesterday warned that the Nigeria's population is gradually out striping the country's economic growth.

[This Day] Lokoja -- The recent commencement of hydrographic survey and charting of the lower rivers of the Niger and Benue have been considered parts of efforts to reactivate economic activities on the nation's inland waterways.

[This Day] Abuja -- The Minister of Interior Mr. Rauf Aregbesola yesterday in London, unveiled a new facility that would offer 10-year validity passports to Nigerians.

[This Day] A bill seeking to prohibit the importation of fake goods into Nigeria yesterday scaled second reading in the Senate.

[This Day] Three weeks after a pipeline explosion in Nembe, Bayelsa State, which led to oil spillage across 45 communities in the state, the federal government, yesterday, said it was yet to establish the cause of the eruption. It frowned on speculat...

[Premium Times] The centre noted that the new infections were recorded across 11 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

[Daily Trust] North-West governors on Wednesday paid a condolence visit to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State over the 21-storey collapsed building on Gerrard Road, Ikoyi which killed 45 people on November 1.

[Daily Trust] Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, says the board uncovered 706,189 illegal admissions by universities, colleges of education, polytechnics and other allies from 2017 to 2020.

[Daily Trust] Nigerians from different works of life have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to speed up assent to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill recently passed by the National Assembly in the interest of the nation.

[Daily Trust] The federal government is making plans to provide clean cook stoves to women across the 774 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Nigeria.

[Premium Times] Official says the project will open up Nigeria's inland waterways to 25 African countries and Europe in transportation and trade connectivity.

[Premium Times] The TRCN appealed to journalists to identify and report states owing teachers salaries, saying "hunger breeds insecurity."

[Premium Times] JAMB said apart from distorting the statistics of enrollment into the nation's tertiary institutions which it noted is required for national planning and development strategies, the conduct is also "a violation of ministerial directiv...