archiveApril 2021

  The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)  recorded 110 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 163,440. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Wednesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that  the country’s daily new cases continue...

 The World Bank will provide 50 countries with finance to buy COVID-19 vaccines by mid-2021, Mr David Malpass, World Bank Group President has said.Malpass made this known on Wednesday in Washington D. C. during a news  conference  at the ongoing 2021 Spring Meetings which began on Monday. The president said...

 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged  countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to do more domestically to increase tax revenues and improve the quality of spending. Ms Kristalina Georgieva,  Managing Director of IMF, made this known in Washington D. C. on Wednesday at the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings news  conference. Georgieva...

President Joe Biden plans to announce Thursday an effort to limit so-called ghost guns — weapons sold without serial numbers or other identifying information — and to nominate a figure from a major gun control group as director of the federal agency that regulates firearms. By this, Biden will be...

 The JAMB  is to clampdown on some cybercafes and tutorial centres who specialise in defrauding unsuspecting candidates during registration for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).The warning is contained in the board’s weekly bulletin – Vol. 2, No 18, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday...

   Activities on the Nigerian stock market on Wednesday closed on a positive note to halt the four consecutive days of bearish run, growing by 0.02 per cent. The performance was driven by investors’ renewed posItive sentiments in blue-chip stocks like Nestle Nigeria, MTN Nigeria Communications (MTNN) and nine others....

 Dr Osagie Ehanire, Minister of Health, has appealed to the resident doctors to call off their strike in the interest of patients that needed care at this critical time. Ehanire made the call at a media briefing on Wednesday in Abuja to commemorate the World Health Day, celebrated every year...

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has stated has stated that attacks on northerners in the South were targeted to provoke the north. Deputy Chairman of ACF, Senator Ibrahim Ida, stated this at Arewa House Kaduna on Wednesday while speaking at the Northern People’s Summit. He said the North must ensure...

  Nigerian Breweries (NB) has recommended a total dividend of N7.71 billion for its shareholders for the financial year ended Dec. 31, 2020.Mrs Sade Morgan, Corporate Affairs Director of the company, said this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos. The...

The United Kingdom has said there have been 79 cases of rare blood clots, resulting in 19 deaths, with people receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine in Britain. This was disclosed by the country’s medicines regulator on Wednesday. “By the 31st of March, over 20 million doses having been given, we have...