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The Federal Government has lifted the earlier suspension order on replacement and activation of old Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card. In a statement on Thursday, signed by the Director, Public Affairs at NCC, Dr Ikechukwu Adinde, the Commission said the lifting of the ban was on the condition that the person must have enrolled and […]

The Debt Management Office says Nigeria’s debt stock has risen to ₦32.223 trillion as at September 2020. The DMO made this known in its third-quarter country debt data released on Thursday in Abuja. The statement explained that Nigeria’s debt stock grew by ₦1.214 trillion between June 2020 and end of September 2020. According to DMO, […]

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has said that the ongoing enrollment for the National Identification Number (NIN) is free across the country. In a tweet on Thursday, NIMC warned that those who extort applicants risk a seven-year jail term if found guilty of the offence. While citing Sections 14, 20 and 21 of the […]

Former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, has called on Nigerians to stop celebrating people who loot the nation’s resources. Obi who featured as a guest on Channels Television’s special end of the year programme on Thursday stressed the need for true democracy in the country. He said, “I still blame the people who watch the sharing (of […]

The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mohammed Umar Abba, yesterday said the lockdown imposed by government across the country following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic impacted operations of the anti-graft agency for five months. He said the investigation initiated by government that led to the suspension of the former […]

President Muhammadu Buhari will today, Thursday, December 31, 2020, sign into law the 2021 appropriation bill passed last week by the National Assembly. A presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, confirmed this yesterday to Daily Trust. Expected to attend the signing the ceremony are; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President Ahmad Lawan, Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila of the House […]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has celebrated the discovery of COVID-19 vaccine as the year 2020 draws to an end. WHO’s Director-General Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus stated this while giving a toast at the last COVID-19 news conference of the year at WHO headquarters in Geneva. In a speech posted on the agency’s website, Ghebreyesus said […]

More trouble for Nigeria as new COVID-19 cases jumped above 1,000 in the last 24 hours with 11 people struck dead by the virus. The deaths were recorded in five states and Abuja, the Federal capital. Kaduna and Delta posted three deaths each, Edo 2. Abuja, Sokoto and Plateau posted one death each, to account […]

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abba Ali, has reacted to the worsening state of the insecurity in the country, saying President Muhammadu Buhari inherited the problem from the former government of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Ali, who spoke from Katsina, disclosed this on Wednesday during a phone interview on Channels […]

A Colorado man has the variant of the coronavirus from the United Kingdom that health officials say is more transmissable than other strains of the virus, Gov. Jared Polis announced Tuesday. It is the first known case of the UK coronavirus variant in United States. The man, who is in his 20s and in isolation in Elbert […]

Former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has said Nigerian leaders, not God, should be blamed for the situation of things in the country. Obasanjo said this while addressing newsmen in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, on Tuesday. According to the elder statesman, no Nigerian should go to sleep hungry considering the enormous resources the nation is blessed […]

The controversy triggered by the reports that the First Lady, Mrs Aisha Buhari, has relocated out of the country took a new twist on Tuesday. This comes as Mr Aliyu Abdullahi, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity (Office of the First Lady), refused to disclose Mrs Buhari’s whereabouts. Rather than […]

The Federal Government on Tuesday expressed disappointment with states, saying despite the resources made available to them, testing for COVID – 19 had been very low. It also said with effect from January 1, 2021, the passports of the first 100 passengers that failed to take their day seven post-arrival PCR test would be published […]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has said that the nation’s health system is struggling to cope with the increasing number of coronavirus infections daily. The centre warned that the nation would pay in January for disregarding the health protocols. Speaking at the  briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Tuesday, the Director-General, […]

The Lagos state government has threatened to deactivate the passports of travellers refusing to comply with COVID-19 testing protocols. Akin Abayomi, commissioner for health, and Gbenga Omotosho, his information and strategy counterpart, made this known in a document on the state’s COVID-19 update. According to the document, over 213,000 persons have been tested out of […]

The House of Representatives has denied that it apologised to President Muhammadu Buhari for inviting him to appear before it over security matters. The spokesperson of the House, Benjamin Kalu, (APC-Abia) said on Monday that the House was unperturbed about the failure of Mr Buhari to appear before it over security matters. He said in a statement […]

A new WhatsApp update will prevent the popular messaging app from working on millions of phones from 1 January 2021. Older Android and iPhone devices will no longer support the latest version of the app, forcing owners to either update their mobile operating system or buy a new smartphone, Yahoo News reports. Any iPhone not running iOS […]

An independent Chinese journalist who reported from Wuhan at the height of the initial coronavirus outbreak has been jailed for four years by a Shanghai court, her lawyer said Monday. Zhang Zhan, 37, was found guilty of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” according to one of her defense lawyers Zhang Keke, who attended her hearing. […]