Nigeria

The acting Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps(NSCDC) , Hilary Madu, has charged Corps personnel to justify their salary and mandates by providing measures against any form of attack on the nation and it’s citizenry. He made the comment in Abuja in a news conference, where […]

The federal government has extended the ongoing National Identification Number (NIN) and Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) integration exercise by eight weeks. By this, the new deadline to complete the exercise is April 6, 2021. This message was conveyed by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim […]

Nigeria has recorded its worst rating on Transparency International’s (TI) Corruption Perception Index since 2015. In the 2020 index released on Thursday, the country scored 25 out of 100 points, dropping to 149 out of the 180 countries surveyed, taking the nation three steps down from the 146 scored in […]

The Police Service Commission has approved the promotion of twenty thousand, three hundred and fifty six, (20,356) senior Police Officers. Nine Commissioners of Police were promoted to the next rank of Assistant Inspectors General of Police and another nine, promoted from the rank of Deputy Commissioner to Commissioners of Police. […]

Miyeti Allah Cattle Breeders Association in Osun state has pledged their commitment and to abide by the communique issued at the security meeting held with the association in Akure at the instance of the Nigeria Governors Forum. It was resolved at the meeting that open grazing, night grazing and underage […]

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria has urged the Federal Government not to consider another round of lockdown. CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele made this known in Abuja, on Tuesday, at the end of the first MPC meeting in 2021. The CBN governor said the Bank […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Coronavirus Disease Health Protection 2021, which makes the use of face masks in public places mandatory among other measures to curtail further spread of COVID-19 in Nigeria. Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, told journalists in Abuja on Wednesday, that […]

Nigeria yesterday recorded 1,861 new cases of Coronavirus. So far, 126,160 cases have been recorded in the country, out of which 100,365 cases have been treated and discharged. 1,544 deaths have also been recorded. The new cases were recorded in states as follows: Lagos-773FCT-285,Oyo-138,Rivers-111,Plateau-92Nasarawa-83Kaduna-59Enugu-57Imo-57Edo-43Kano-27 andKwara-20 . Others areEbonyi-19Abia-17Ogun-12Osun-12Katsina-8Bayelsa-6Bauchi-5Delta-5Borno-4Jigawa-4 andZamfara-1.

A chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, has condemned in strong terms, the gruesome killings of unarmed civilians in Orlu local government area of the state, describing it as barbaric and wicked. Senator Anyanwu therefore, called on security agencies to bring to book, […]

On the 26th of January 2021, 1,303 new confirmed cases and 15 deaths were recorded in Nigeria, as reported by the Nigeria Center For Disease Control. Till date, 124,299 cases have been confirmed, 99,276 cases have been discharged and 1,522 deaths have been recorded in 36 states and the Federal […]