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The Federal Government has warned that it may be forced to issue restrictions on gatherings and impose curfews if the current surge in the number of COVID-19 cases continues. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Chairman, Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, said this in a statement yesterday. The Nigeria Centre […]

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) yesterday suspended entry of passengers from Nigeria and three other African countries. The other countries are Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia. The latest ban, taking effect tomorrow, was announced yesterday by the UAE National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Emergency Management Authority (NCEMA) and the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA).  But the Nigeria […]

Former Military President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has endorsed Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, for the 2023 presidency. The elder statesman endorsed him when the Osinbajo Grassroots Organisation visited him at his Hilltop residence in Minna, Niger capital, on Thursday. He asked Osinbajo to be resilient and contest the Presidency in 2023. “I know the Vice-president very well. […]

The Nigerian naira gained marginally against the US dollar at the parallel market to trade at N565 per dollar. This figure is N5 or 0.9 percent higher than the N570 it traded last week. Street traders across forex markets in Lagos who spoke to TheCable on Wednesday quoted the naira at N565 to a dollar. A […]

Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus in the House of Representatives, on Wednesday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to wake up and save Nigeria from the grips of rampaging terrorists, bandits and kidnappers or he should resign. The PDP caucus said it was worrisome that Nigeria under Buhari has been seized by hostage-takers-bandits and […]

American rapper, Belcalis Almánzar, popularly known as Cardi B, has gifted a rapper husband, Offset, a sum of two million dollars on his 30th birthday. She made the presentation to her husband during his birthday party in Los Angeles, United States. In a video shared by the mother-of-two on her Instagram story on Wednesday, her husband was […]

Nigeria Football Federation boss Amaju Pinnick says the federation held talks with Roma manager Jose Mourinho in its search for a coach for the Super Eagles, Punch reports. Pinnick, who stated this during a media parley with sports journalists in Lagos on Wednesday, said the Eagles would get a new coach “within the next week or so”, […]

The Federal  Government plans to introduce digital token comprising 16 alphabets and numbers to replace the current 11-digit National Identity Number effective January, 2022, it has been learnt. As such, the Federal Government plans to make illegal and a punishable offence any company or agency found verifying the 11-digit National Identity Number. This was disclosed […]

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) on Tuesday debunked fake information that it was organising an ‘anniversary contest’ or recruiting staff. The reaction was contained in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Garba Deen Muhammad. “In the purported contest, unsuspecting participants are encouraged to carry out a survey by filling out a questionnaire on […]

The Federal Government via the Ministry of Interior on Tuesday reiterated that marriages formalised at the Ikoyi registry in Lagos are constitutional and legal. Several reports had claimed marriages conducted at federal registries were illegal as local governments are responsible for that aspect of public life. However, in a statement by spokesperson Blessing Lere-Adams, the […]

Nasir el-Rufai, Kaduna state governor, says he does not believe in rehabilitating terrorists. He said the best way to deal with the persons terrorising Nigerians is to kill them. The governor made his position known on Tuesday while briefing state house correspondents after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. He was in the state house to […]

Amid pregnancy rumours, the wife of President Buhari, Aisha, has ordered all members of her staff to proceed on indefinite leave. This was announced in a terse statement on Tuesday by the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Health and Development Partners in the First Lady’s office, Mohammed Kamal. Buhari, 79, was in Turkey […]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Monday said the country was now experiencing a fourth COVID-19 wave. This was contained in a statement signed by Director-General, Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa. “Nigeria has recorded a 500% increase in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases over the past two weeks across the country caused by the Delta […]

Funmi Falana, wife of a human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has written to the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Farouk Yahaya, seeking the release of female soldier detained for accepting a marriage proposal from a youth corps member.   Falana said Private Sofiyat Akinlabi’s decision to marry the corps member be respected in accordance […]

Libya’s education minister was arrested on Monday as part of an enquiry into a lack of schoolbooks, the prosecution service said. Moussa al-Megarief “was placed in preventative detention pending an investigation into (possible) negligence”, it said in a statement. “The Public Prosecution has launched an enquiry to determine the circumstances around contractual procedures for the […]

A 75-year-old man (name withheld) has died at the Lagos Airport in Nigeria’s commercial capital. The man arrived in the country on Monday via the Murtala  Muhammed International Airport, Lagos aboard a flight operated by Delta Air from the United States of America. Sources at the Lagos Airport told Channels Television that the man died […]

President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan yesterday did an appraisal of the federal government and concluded that though President Muhammadu Buhari was trying his possible best, Nigeria was still going through trying times. He also pledged the continued support of the National Assembly to the Buhari’s administration in its efforts to deliver on its […]

Igbos for Progressive and United Nationhood (IPAN) a socio-political organisation says it has observed that no Igbo politician has shown real seriousness for the 2023 presidency in spite of the incessant cry of marginalisation of Ndigbo from the polity. IPAN national president comrade Lawrence Onuzulike who made the observation in Awka, the Anambra State capital, […]