archiveMarch 2021

 President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the occasion of his 84th birthday.The president’s congratulatory message is contained in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Saturday. Buhari wished the former president, who had served the country...

  The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Vaccine Taskforce has recommended compensation for citizens who suffer side effects or injury from the COVID-19 vaccination.Prof. Stanley Okolo, the Director-General of the West African Health Organisation (WAHO),  disclosed this at the  5th Regional Steering Committee meeting of the Regional Disease...

President Muhammadu Buhari together with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday in Abuja received their first doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine with the President advising Nigerians to go and get theirs. President Buhari and Vice President Osinbajo got the jab live on television, a day after the COVID-19 national...

    The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced a new “CBN Naira for Dollar Scheme” for senders and recipients of International money transfers. The apex bank in a statement released by its Director, Trade and Exchange Department, A.S Jibrin, said it will through commercial banks pay to remittance...

   Twenty-one African countries are reporting COVID-19 case fatality rates higher than the global average, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Friday. The number of COVID-19-related deaths in Africa now stood at 105,001, the specialised healthcare agency of the 55-member AU said. According to...

  Alhaji Ahmed Rabiu, Managing Director, Dala Inland Dry Port in Kano State says the project will cost 27 million dollars.Conducting an inspection of the project located at Zawaciki, in Kumbotso Local Government Area of the state, Rabiu, said the first phase would be completed by June at a cost...

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday inaugurated the 1.4 kilometre Dual Carriageway Flyover Bridge in Pen Cinema Junction, Agege. Speaking at the inauguration, Sanwo-Olu said that the flyover would reduce travel time and save man-hour that would have been otherwise lost to traffic on the road. He said...

  The Federal Government has delivered food items to victims of Shasha Market crisis and also inaugurated Special Cash Grant to 5,280 rural women in Oyo. Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development in a statement on Friday in Abuja signed by her...

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Friday directed Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) to replace faulty and obsolete meters for their customers. The commission made this known in Order No. NERC/246/2021 signed by its Chairman, Mr Sanusi Garba and Mr Dafe Akpeneye, Commissioner Legal, Licensing and compliance on its website...

Zamfara State Government on Friday said a Nigerian soldier and his girlfriend were recently caught supplying ammunition and military uniforms to armed bandits in the state. The State Governor, Bello Matawalle, represented by his deputy chief of staff, Bashir Maru, at a press conference, said the soldier was arrested by...