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Harder times await Nigerians who need medical attention at the nation’s public tertiary health facilities as striking doctors – members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) – and the labour minister, Chris Ngige, have held on to their stance. The minister on Friday while appearing on a Channels Television’s programme – Politics Today – said […]

The Federal Government on Saturday said it will begin to administer the second batch of COVID-19 vaccines it received this month on Tuesday. The latest tranche, over four million doses of the Moderna vaccine, was donated by the US government. According to a statement signed by spokesperson to the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, […]

The Federal Government has ruled out any further discussion with the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) over the ongoing doctors’ strike. The government said it has invoked the “No work no pay” rule as contained in Section 43 of the Labour Act. It added the doctors will not receive payment as long as the […]

Some fans of Arsenal Football Club are desirous to have Lionel Messi join their club after Barcelona announced that the Argentine will leave the club. Shortly after Messi’s departure was announced, Arsenal began to trend on Twitter. This was further fuelled by a tweet by an Italian journalist who specializes in football, Fabrizio Romano, who […]

German sportswear manufacturing giants PUMA has terminated its four-year contract with the Athletics Federation of Nigeria. In the letter of termination of Sponsoring and Licensing Agreement, issued on Wednesday PUMA said, “we are referring to the licensing and sponsoring agreement signed between our company and your federation”. “As a direct consequence of the recent developments, […]

The Minister of State for Education, Chief Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has opened up on the reasons why the Federal Government abandoned the option of negotiations with kidnappers of students. Nwajiuba spoke Wednesday while responding to questions from State House reporters after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said the bandits used […]

Big Brother Naija Shine Your Eye edition housemate, Beatrice Agba Nwaji also known as Beatrice has revealed her plan before the eviction show on Sunday. According to the mother of one, she was very certain she would not survive eviction this week. Beatrice disclosed this to a fellow housemate, Angel while having a conversation about […]

Five months after, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has lifted flight ban on Nigerian travellers with effect from Thursday August 5. Emirates announced on its website that the UAE authorities have announced that effective 5 August 2021, eligible travellers from Nigeria and 10 other countries will be allowed to travel to/through the UAE. The countries […]

Ese Brume has put Nigeria on the medals table, leaping 6.97m to grab the bronze medal in the long jump event in Tokyo Olympics. The 25 year-old came in third to the German winner Malaika Mihambo who jumped 7 metres. American Brittney Reese grabbed the silver, although had the same jump with Brume. The Ughelli-born […]

The federal government has cautioned youths seeking employment opportunities abroad to be careful, so as not to end up as victims of trafficking.  Memunat Idu-Lah, director of international cultural relations in the ministry of information and culture, was speaking in an interview with NAN on Sunday. Idu-Lah, who advised youths to seek opportunities within the country, […]

Nigerians spent about N1.77tn on national calls and short messages in 2020. This is according to the analysis of data released by the Nigerian Communications Commission recently released in document titled ‘2020 subscriber/network data report’. NCC put total outgoing local and national traffic at 150,825,830,687.40 minutes. The average tariff charged by the mobile networks as […]

The General Overseer of the Living Faith Church aka Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, has warned married couples on the dangers of not having a good sex life. In a post shared on his Ministries social media handles Saturday, the clergyman averred that a sex-starved marriage is heading for destruction, he wrote: ”A sex-starved marriage […]

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu is hale and hearty and does not require hospitalisation. This is according to his media adviser, Tunde Rahman, via a statement issued on Saturday, amid reports that the APC leader is out of the country undergoing a surgical operation. Although Rahman confirmed that his […]

The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has directed its members across the country to embark on a total strike from Monday, August 2. This directive was issued on Saturday at the end of the executive meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the union held in Umuahia, the Abia State capital. Briefing reporters […]