Nigeria
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 06:28:07 GMTAir Force Destroys Houses, Farms in Poor Benue Community Despite Court Order
[Premium Times] Over 100 residents of Tse-Poor, an agrarian rural community in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, are still licking their wounds, weeks after the Nigerian Air Force's bulldozers ravaged their ancestral land.
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 04:20:53 GMTGovt Slams UK for Placing Nigeria On Covid-19 Red List
[This Day] Abuja -- The Federal Government has condemned the decision of the United Kingdom to put Nigeria on the red list and place a ban on foreign travels originating from the country following the discovery of Omicron, the new variant of COVID-19...
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 05:52:08 GMTTB Joshua Church Re-Opens As Embattled Widow Takes Charge
[Nation] Six months after the death of Prophet TB Joshua, in-person service kicked off at his Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) on Sunday with his widow, Prophetess Evelyn TB Joshua, presiding.
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 04:20:29 GMTCameroonian Refugees in Nigeria Now Over 70,000, Says UNHCR
[This Day] Abuja -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has revealed that Cameroonian refugees in Nigeria are now over 70,000.
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:32:30 GMTRed List - UK Under Fire for Travel Apartheid Against Nigeria
[This Day] As global outrage continues to trail recent travel ban placed on Nigeria and some other African countries by the United Kingdom (UK), a development which has been described as racist and discriminatory, Nigeria's federal government yesterd...
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:32:29 GMTNiger First Lady Flags Off Second Phase of Covid-19 Vaccination, Others
[This Day] Minna -- The wife of the Niger State Governor, Dr. Amina Sani Bello, has flagged off the second phase of the COVID-19 vaccination and routine immunisation for children in Chanchaga and Bosso Local Government Areas of the state where she em...
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:30:45 GMTDespite Govt's Plea, Electricity Workers Cripple Power Supply in Abuja, Environs
[This Day] Abuja -- Despite a federal government statement pleading with the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) not to embark on an industrial action, the workers yesterday made good their threat, crippling power supply in parts of Abuja ...
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:30:44 GMT... Fails to Red List 17 European Countries Despite Recording Omicron
[This Day] Despite the presence of the new Omicron COVID-19 variant in 17 countries in Europe, the United Kingdom has failed to take same punitive action it took against some developing nations, thereby confirming its selective red listing of Nigeria...
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:30:42 GMTBuhari Charges Military to Evolve Out-of-Box Strategies to End Insurgency
[This Day] Abuja -- President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, charged the Armed Forces of Nigeria to evolve new strategies in containing insecurity in the country.
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:30:37 GMTHIV - Why Anti-Stigma Law Should Be Domesticated Across Nigeria-Experts
[Daily Trust] Experts working in the field of HIV have called for the domestication of the anti-stigma law across all states of the country.
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:29:39 GMT#EndSARS - the Truths About the Untruths of 'Massacre Without Bodies'
[Vanguard] With David Ibanga's eyes shut and visage covered in blood, as reported by The Washington Post, Ndifreke Ibanga's last sighting of his lifeless body was in a photo on social media after the EndSARS protest at the Lekki Toll Gate." All I wan...
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:29:38 GMTCross River to Vaccinate 900,000 Children Against Polio
[Leadership] Cross River State government has unveiled plan to vaccinate 900,000 children against polio. The exercise will be carried by the state Primary Healthcare Development Agency.
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:29:36 GMT15.6bn External Borrowing Enhanced Naira Exchange Rate - DMO
[Vanguard] The Debt Management Office (DMO) yesterday disclosed that external borrowing of $15.368 billion in the last ten years helped to shore up naira exchange rate.
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:13:01 GMTCovid-19 - Senate President Slams Ministers of Health Over Absence At Health Summit
[Premium Times] Mr Lawan said it was wrong for Ehanire, Mamora, and the permanent secretary to be absent at an interventionist summit designed to support their work.
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:10:07 GMTNembe Communities Protest Continuous Oil Spill, 31 Days After Blowout
[This Day] Yenagoa -- Indigenes of Opu-Nembe and surrounding communities have protested the inability of the Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Limited or the government to stop the oil spillage currently devastating their communities following...
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 07:16:20 GMT8 Children Who Died Inside Car - We Opted to Bury Our Children Because Officials Demanded N.8m for Autopsy - Bereaved Parents
[Vanguard] Mr. Ibrahim Jubrilia, father of two boys, Toheb and Mamud, who were among the eight lifeless bodies recovered inside a Honda Pilot SUV, with number plate, AAA157BD, abandoned inside a fenced house in Jah-Michael community, Olorunda area of...
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 07:16:17 GMTBuhari Urges Auditors-General to Stamp Out Corruption
[Vanguard] President Muhammadu Buhari has called on Auditors-General across the country to introduce strategies that will help stamp out corruption from the system.
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 07:16:14 GMT$10bn Nlng Project - Senate to Sanction Contractors Over Breach of Law
[Vanguard] THE Senate Committee on Local Content, yesterday, threatened to sanction Saipem SPA over failure to provide evidence for several petitions it had received against the firm, on alleged breach of Local Content Law in the execution of the Tra...
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 07:16:11 GMTNigeria Losing High Volume of Annual Farm Produce to Pests - Agric Minister
[Vanguard] The Minister of Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammed Abubakar, has said that Nigeria is losing high volume of its annual farm produce to damage from pests.
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 07:16:08 GMTFCT, Kogi, Niger Others Thrown Into Darkness As Workers Shut Abuja Disco Offices
[Vanguard] The workers of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC, yesterday downed tools and began an indefinite strike throwing several states including the Federal Capital Territory, FCT and other areas into darkness over perceived poor worki...
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 07:16:06 GMTFCT Poll - We Are Committed to Credible Elections - INEC
[Vanguard] The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it is committed to conduct credible area councils election in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) by Feb. 12, 2022, with appropriate technology deployment and its innovative tools.
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 07:16:02 GMTRelease Kanu, Others Unconditionally - Ohanaeze Youths to Buhari
[Vanguard] Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youths Worldwide, have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to release the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and 19 other Igbo youths illegally detained by security agencies.
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 07:16:02 GMTPirates Kidnap NSCDC Operative, 4 Oil Workers in Bayelsa
[Vanguard] Suspected pirates have abducted an operative of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) and four contract staff working at the Conoil field in Koluama 1 in Bayelsa.
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 07:16:00 GMTCross River to Vaccinate 900,000 Children Against Poliomyelitis
[Vanguard] The Cross River Primary Healthcare Development Agency said it would vaccinate more than 900,000 children in the state against the circulating vaccine-derived poliomyelitis.
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 07:15:59 GMTKorea to Donate $12.4m for Solar Mini-Grids Construction in Nigeria
[Vanguard] Mr Kim Young-Chae, Ambassador of Korea to Nigeria, on Monday said that his country would provide US$12.4 million for the construction of solar mini-grids in Nigeria.
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 07:15:57 GMTOmicron - UK's Ban Unjust, Punitive, Discriminatory, FG Declares
[Vanguard] THE Federal Government has described the British government's decision to put Nigeria on the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 pandemic red list as unjust, unfair, punitive and discriminatory.
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 07:10:18 GMTEnd Gender-Based Violence Now - AWLA
[This Day] African Women Lawyers Association (AWLA) has called for an end to gender-based violence, saying that it is against all international conventions. This views were expressed, at the start of the Orange Campaign.
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 07:10:17 GMTSylvester Oromoni and Nigeria's School System
[This Day] TUESDAY WITH REUBEN ABATI abati1990@gmail.com
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 07:10:16 GMTLagos Peace Walk Too Risky in Covid Pandemic
[This Day] Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has been advised to shelve the planned Peace Walk in support of the White Paper of the Lagos State Government on #EndSARS.
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 07:00:11 GMTUltimatum - You'll Hear From Us in 24 Hours, ASUU Tells Nigerians
[Vanguard] AS ultimatum given by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to the government to implement its demands or face another round of industrial action ended on Sunday, the former has said Nigerians will know its position within 24 hou...