archiveJuly 23, 2021

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has faulted claims by the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) that Nigeria does not have enough network coverage to guarantee the electronic transmission of election results in 2023. INEC Director of Publicity and Voter Education, Nick Dazang who revealed this on Friday, during an interview on...

The Nigerian government has not come up with charges that could lead to the extradition of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, currently detained in Benin Republic. Lawyers to Sunday Igboho made this known after the Yoruba rights activist appeared at Cour D’Appel De Cotonou on...

Former Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Seriake Dickson has warned that chains of injustices metted out to oil producing communities in Nigeria in the recently passed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) may spark off fresh violence in the Niger Delta region. Dickson now a Senator representing Bayelsa West District in the National...

The Federal Government says the COVID-19 pandemic impacted diaspora remittances into Nigeria as it witnessed a 20 per cent reduction from the $25 billion annual inflows. Chairman/CEO of the Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, stated this during a press briefing in Abuja on Thursday ahead of...

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has said that almost half of the world’s 1.7 million children living with HIV did not get treatment in 2020. This is contained in the final report from the Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS Free initiative, UNAIDS and partners. In the report,...

  The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said the country recorded additional 184 COVID-19 infections as of July 22. The NCDC made this known on its website on Friday morning. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the new infections indicate a decrease from the 238 cases announced...