[Premium Times] The Executive Secretary, Katsina State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Shamsudeen Yahaya, disclosed this to journalists on Tuesday in Katsina.

[Premium Times] Mr Barkindo was appointed OPEC Secretary-General in 2016, the fourth Nigerian to hold that position.

[Premium Times] "Two persons in the convoy are receiving treatment for the minor injuries they suffered. All the other personnel, staff and vehicles made it safely to Daura," he wrote.

[VOA] At least two U.N. peacekeepers from Egypt are dead and more are wounded after their convoy hit an improvised explosive device Tuesday, the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) said Tuesday.

[Premium Times] The sentencing of Hushpuppi was initially moved from February 14 to July 11, and has now been moved to September at the counsel's request.

[VOA] Abuja, Nigeria -- The French medical aid group Doctors Without Borders reported a jump in cases of malnourished Nigerian children at its Maiduguri nutrition center in the country's northeast.

[CFR] The proverbial "Third Force" in Nigerian politics is finally making itself heard, but its chances of causing an upset are slim.

[Spotlight Initiative] Inspector Muna Meah is a Commander in the Liberia National Police Force. For the past seven years, she has investigated cases of violence against women and children and supported survivors to access the help they need. She is t...

[Premium Times] The funding will cover about 57 projects, including nature-based measures to reduce climate change vulnerability, combating deforestation and desertification, and a waste-to-energy initiative in Cross River State.

[Premium Times] The Russian invasion of Ukraine, which started on February 24, led to the disruption of lives and activities in Ukraine including education.

[Premium Times] For the second consecutive tournament, the Super Falcons lost to the Bayana Bayana of South Africa.

[Ghanaian Times] Four teacher unions have declared an indefinite nationwide strike over government's inability to grant them their 20 per cent Cost of Living Allowance (COLA).

[Premium Times] Meanwhile, Mr Aregbesola, had on June 16, denied shortage of passport booklets in Nigeria, saying the country was contending with "human challenges".

[Premium Times] The affected companies are Port Harcourt, Kano, Kaduna, Ibadan and Benin distribution companies.

[Premium Times] According to him, the state has about 15 suspected Monkeypox cases, whose samples have been taken to Abuja, and are awaiting the results.

[Premium Times] Mr Kazeem said that about 120 ambulances, 25 tow trucks and more than 200 FRSC bikes would be on the road during the special operation.

[DW] OPEC's Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo has died at the age of 63, Mele Kyari, the chief executive of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said Wednesday.

[Vanguard] Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State, yesterday in Maiduguri inaugurated two committees to manage repatriation of refugees from neighbouring countries and manage issues of repentant insurgents.

[Vanguard] Kano State Government yesterday said it was targetting 12 million children below the age of five years for the July to October round of the Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention exercise in 44 local government areas of the state.

[Vanguard] Northern leader, Alhaji Musa Saidu has warned the presidential standard bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku not to succumb to pressure to drop his running mate, governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta state.

[Vanguard] Katsina Emirate Council has announced the suspension of durbar during the Eid-el-Kabir festivity on Saturday.

[Vanguard] In recognition of his relentless commitment and passion for youth empowerment, the CEO of a digital training institute, New Horizons Nigeria, Mr. Tim Akano has been honoured by Nigerian youths.

[Vanguard] Federal Government has restated its appeal to states to cooperate in ensuring herders embraced ranching to end the perennial farmers-herdsmen clashes in the country.

[Vanguard] THE ongoing strike embarked upon by four university-based unions has taken a new twist, as lecturers in medical schools of some Federal Universities have distanced themselves from the industrial action.

[Vanguard] lawmaker representing Ondo South Senatorial District, Senator Nicholas Tofowomo, yesterday, dragged a former deputy governor of Ondo State, Agboola Ajayi, to a Federal High Court, sitting in Akure, seeking his disqualification as the 2023 ...

[Vanguard] Abuja -- Former National Chairma of All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, Victor Umeh, said yesterday that the coalition talks between the Labour Party, LP, and the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, ended on June 15.

[Vanguard] Delta State governor and vice presidential candidate of the PDP, Ifeanyi Okowa, yesterday, said, his high school result was the second best nationally in 1976, when he finished secondary school.

[CAF] Senegal has made history at the TotalEnergies Women's Africa Cup of Nations by qualifying for the second round following their 1-0 victory against Burkina on Tuesday at the Moulay Abdellah Sports Complex.

[Vanguard] Late Mohammed Barkindo was the Secretary-General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC.

[This Day] Secretary-General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo, is dead. He died at about 11pm on Tuesday. He was aged 63.