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  The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 pandemic has expressed frustration over the adverse impact of the second wave of the virus on the national response efforts. Chairman of the PTF and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF Mr Boss Mustapha, who said this on Tuesday during...

      The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) on Tuesday issued fresh guidelines for the National Identification Number (NIN) registration exercise. The NIMC spokesman, Kayode Adegoke, who announced the guidelines in a statement titled: “NIMC Adopts Booking System For NIN Enrolment,” said the move was aimed at checking the...

  The Police Command in Niger says 23 persons lost their lives when a truck fully loaded with dozens of cows and 45 persons, skidded off the road and somersaulted into a bush. The accident occurred at about 0500 hours along Bokani -Makera road in Mokwa Local Government Area of...

The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) has described Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah’s Christmas statement as unguarded and open incitement to military coup and insurrection against the democratically elected government. The group on Monday demanded the immediate arrest and prosecution of the clergy for what it described as treasonable felony against...

A New York doctor was diagnosed with the coronavirus four days after he received the first dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, Ynet reported. The case occurred at Montefiore Hospital in New York. “One of our team members started to feel symptoms about four days after he got the vaccine,”...

The leadership of the Catholic Church in Nigeria has expressed support for the position expressed by the Bishop of the Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Hassan Kukah, on the state of the nation. In a statement issued on Monday by the National Directorate of Social Communications of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria...

Gov. Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State, on Monday signed the 2021 Appropriation Bill of N141.6 billion into law. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), recalls that Bagudu had on Nov. 27, presented the budget of N141.6 billion for 2021 to the state House of Assembly. The budget had over N92.2...

A research conducted by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has shown that Lagos State Government earned a total of N4.6 billion from different charges from telecoms operators in 2019. The study examined the quantum of taxes, levies, and fees collected by state governments and their impact on the digital economy...

  The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has said that 48 per cent of COVID-19 patients in the state do not know they are carriers of the virus. Abayomi, at a briefing in Alausa on Monday, said 16 per cent of the COVID-19 cases currently in the...

Heritage Bank Plc in its continued bid to support Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), has again empowered the winner of The Next Titan Season-7 with sum of N10million. An entrepreneur, Joshua Joseph Idiong who is the CEO of Josult Oil Processing Company, a palm oil processing company in Akwa...