archiveMarch 2019

  Nigeria now fourth country with the highest HIV prevalence globally The South-South Zone recorded the highest HIV prevalence rate, according to the 2018 Nigeria HIV and AIDS Indicator and Impact Survey (NAIIS). Prof. Isaac Adewole, Minister of Health, while giving an overview of NAIIS on Thursday in Abuja, said...

Shehu Sani, the senator representing Kaduna Central, on Thursday said the President Muhammadu Buhari was not interested in any serious electoral reforms. The lawmaker explained that both previous governments and that of Buhari were not interested in serious electoral reforms because they tend to benefit from its failures. He, however,...

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Thursday granted access to President Muhammadu Buhari and his party, the All Progressives Congress, to inspect the materials used for the conduct of the February 23 presidential election. In their separate ex parte applications for the order of inspection,  Buhari and his party had...

Trading activities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) ended negative on Thursday as some blue chip stocks recording price loses. Consequently, the market capitalisation which opened at N11.694 trillion closed at N11.638 trillion as a result of N56 billion or 0.48 per cent loss. Also, the All-Share Index shed 149.49...

Ethiopian Airlines said Thursday that the black box flight recorders from the Boeing 737 MAX 8 that crashed with 157 people on board, have been flown to Paris for analysis. The airline stated this Twitter message. “An Ethiopian delegation led by Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has flown the Flight Data...

The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Major General Suleiman Kazaure, on Thursday said that the scheme would review and reform its mobilisation process for improvement of the exercise. Kazaure made this known at the 2019 Batch A Pre-Mobilisation Workshop held in Keffi Local Government Area of...

  By Collins Okeke The 2019 General Elections The 2019 general elections were conducted on the framework of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and Electoral Act 2010 (as amended). There were many problems with the 2019 general elections as the reports of local and...

The Independent National Electoral Commission  (INEC) on Thursday said it would work with the 9th National Assembly to review and strengthen the electoral laws of Nigeria. The commission also said it would immediately commence work on the aftermath of the 2019 general elections and set a roadmap for the general...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has prayed the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal sitting at the Court of Appeal, Abuja, to order the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to grant him access to inspect electoral materials. President Buhari who was announced winner of the February 23 presidential elections,  in an exparte application...

  The Nigerian HIV/AIDs Indicator and Impact Survey (NAIIS) indicates that about 1.9 million Nigerians are currently living with the disease, the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) has said. The Director-General of the agency, Sani Aliyu, made this known during the announcement of the NAIIS result at...