Nigeria

Nigeria’s Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed as the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation after virtual consensus meeting on Monday The official announcement was made by the global trade body via it’s verified Twitter handle. Dr. Okonjo-Iweala makes history as the first woman and the first African to lead […]

Popular comedian Debo Adebayo, popularly known as Macaroni, has been arraigned before Mobile Court following yesterday’s EndSARS Protests. Spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, Muyiwa Adejobi, disclosed this yesterday evening, saying he would soon release on the arrest. The PPRO said Mr Macaroni was arrested on Saturday for protesting […]

Report says the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, and the striking Non-Academic Staff Unions of Nigerian Universities are further torn apart over claims and counter claims that Thursday’s meeting to ensure a suspension of the industrial action embarked upon by the workers was inconclusive. The unions representatives […]

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has filed a suit to challenge the tenure elongation of Mohammed Adamu, the inspector-general of police (IGP). According to media reports, the Public Interest Litigation Committee of the NBA, in a suit filed on Thursday at a federal high court in Lagos, is seeking an […]

Nigeria on Friday, recorded 1,005 new cases of COVID19.According to the Nigeria center for Disease Control in its latest report, the new cases were recorded from 18 states and the federal capital territory.A breakdown of the cases show Lagos recorded 204 cases,Kwara-155Oyo-124Plateau-80FCT-75Edo-56Osun-48Ondo-41Kaduna-40Rivers-40Taraba-35Borno-32Ekiti-21Ogun-20Kano-14Bayelsa-8Delta-7Bauchi-3Jigawa-2 Till date,144,521 cases have been confirmed, of which […]

Global human rights group, Amnesty International has called on the Nigerian government to avoid attacking and violating the rights of citizens who plan to protest at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos on Saturday stemming from the hashtag “OccupyLekkiTollGate” which has been trending online. In a statement by Amnesty International, […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday has offered automatic employment to 110 ex-corps members into the Federal Civil Service and scholarships for the pursuit of post-graduate studies up to doctoral level in any university in Nigeria. Speaking at the virtual 2018/2019 President’s National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) honours award ceremony held […]

Highlights on COVID-19 shows that Nigeria, yesterday, recorded 1,131 new cases of Coronavirus. The new cases were recorded as follows: Lagos- 297FCT- 194Kaduna- 83Kano- 59Oyo- 58Taraba- 53Imo- 52Osun- 47Plateau- 45Edo- 43 andAkwa Ibom- 42. Others are… Rivers- 42Ogun- 29Kwara- 24Benue- 21Nasarawa- 16Ekiti- 7Bauchi- 6Delta- 6Bayelsa- 4Sokoto- 2 andGombe- 1 Total […]

The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi on Tuesday, inaugurated the committee on the proposed establishment of the National Road Assessment Programme (nRap). The programme is to enhance safer road infrastructures and compliment existing efforts towards the reduction of road deaths and injuries on Nigerian roads. According […]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has stopped publishing figures of samples tested daily for COVID-19 across Nigeria. The agency did not give reasons for the development but said it would henceforth provide the figure weekly. In the January 24-30 week, NCDC said it collected 61,180 samples for testing, […]