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The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in a communique on Monday decried the stringent conditions given by the Central Bank of Nigeria 9CBN for its members to access the N100 billion health intervention funds. The body, therefore, called on the President Muhammadu Buhari and strategic stakeholders in the nation’s financial sector...

Barely a month after the EndSARS protest that rocked the nation, the Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC), a human rights advocacy group, has called on the Police Service Commission (PSC) to investigate an increase in extrajudicial killings by the Nigerian Police following the #EndSARS protests. In a...

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, on Monday said that the state’s COVID-19 related death had increased to 223. Abayomi made the disclosure through his verified Twitter account @ProfAkinAbayomi, while giving the state’s COVID-19 update for Dec. 11. “Two #COVID19 related deaths were recorded. Total number of #COVID19...

Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III led Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), has described the abduction of hundreds of students of Government Science Secondary School (GSSS), Kankara, as a slap on President Muhammadu Buhari’s face. The apex Islamic body in the North said that the boldness of the bandits...

Northern elders have expressed concerns on the worsening security situation in the region, saying Friday’s attack on Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, in Katsina State, had further confirmed their position that the region was only now at the mercy of terrorists, bandits, and other criminal elements. The elders, under the...

About 16,000 reports of sexual abuse in 29 Sexual Assault Referral Centre have been received across 17 states as of September 2020 in Nigeria. Danladi Plang, the National Programme Manager, Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Programme, disclosed that many people are rejecting the culture of silence and coming out to...

The Senate has ordered the Petroleum Ministry to refund to the federation account N145 million its management staff allegedly defrauded the government in carrying out media campaigns on Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB). Senator Matthew Urhoghide led-Senate Committee on Public Account, said the management staff illegally awarded the PIB media campaign...

    A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, has urged the Nigerian Army to stop making ‘reassuring noises’ and do everything possible to secure the release of the schoolboys abducted last Friday from the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State. Bandits had...

Other notable ties in the first knockout round include Man City against Monchengladbach, holders Bayern Munich against Lazio and Porto versus Juventus as Liverpool will take on RB Leipzig in the last 16 of the Champions League, Chelsea face Atletico Madrid and Lionel Messi’s Barcelona will take on Neymar and...

  Ekiti State government on Monday cautioned residents against engaging in business transactions with unverified loan givers to avoid being scammed. Commissioner for Information and Values Orientation, Mr Akin Omole, said in a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti that some unscrupulous persons and organisations were going about baiting people with attractive loan...