The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Monday night alerted that the non-adherence to public health and social measures by Nigerians was exacerbating the public health response efforts to limit the continued spread of COVID-19 in the country. Disclosing this in its latest Public Health Advisory released last night, the Centre noted that Nigeria

The ongoing National Identification Number (NIN) enrollment may be suspended considering the large crowds seeking registration in centres across Nigeria and the risk of COVID-19, the Minister of State for Health, Olorunnimbe Mamora, has said. He made this remark on Channels TV Sunrise Daily show where he appeared as a guest on Monday. Mr Mamora,

A British appeal court has overturned an order that prevented a Nigerian construction company from enforcing parts of a $48 million arbitration award. The company is seeking damages over an abandoned hotel project at the Lagos airport. The ruling was delivered in November 2020 but newsmen has just obtained a copy. The award, given in

A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Abuja has granted bail to Sahara Reporters’ publisher, Omoyele Sowore in the sum of N20m. Four other activists, who were arrested with Sowore on New Year’s Eve in Abuja for holding a protest against bad governance, were also granted bail in the sum of N1m each. Sowore and Juwon

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday she would push ahead with efforts to remove President Donald Trump from office during the final days of his administration after his supporters’ violent attack on the Capitol. Pelosi, the top Democrat in Congress, said there would be a resolution in the House of Representatives on Monday calling

The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu on Sunday, said amending the Electoral Act without a commitment from stakeholders to do things differently, cannot guarantee free and fair elections. Yakubu said this in an address delivered on his behalf by the INEC National Commissioner in charge of Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus

A federal high Court in Abuja has dismissed a case of Forgery levelled against the Governor of Edo stat, Godwin Obaseki on Saturday. Justice Ahmed Mohammed delivered the judgment on Saturday in a suit filed by the All Progressives Party (APC) and a chieftain of the party, Williams Edobor, against the governor. The All Progressives

United States (US) President Donald Trump on Friday, announced that he will not attend the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden set to take place January 20, 2021. The outgoing President said this a day after Biden’s Electoral College win was endorsed by a joint session of the US Congress. Trump on his official Twitter handle

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has threatened to sue the Cross River government over the non-payment of magistrates for two years. Newsmen had reported that one of the magistrates, Richard Bassey, on Tuesday, collapsed at the gate of the governor’s office in Calabar during a protest over unpaid 24 months’ salary. In his statement on

Against the backdrop of the dearth of critical infrastructure across the country, the plan by the Federal Government to float a N15 trillion infrastructure fund is ambitious but nonetheless a step in the right direction. Besides the need for a careful articulation and implementation of the proposal, it may very well be a good opportunity