archiveMarch 2024

      The Minister of State for Health, Dr Tunji Alausa has called for a total ban on the importation of medical syringes into the country to encourage local production and help to grow the nation’s economy. The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration...

    Nigeria has called for a coordinated and multilateral approach by the West African region to protect shared telecommunications infrastructure and diversify connectivity to ensure uninterruptible connections. This followed the recent undersea cable cuts that disrupted connectivity in many countries in the region. The Executive Vice Chairman of the...

  The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has explained why it increased fresh registrations for 2024 Hajj fares from its initial N4.9 million to over N8 million. It would be recalled that the commission, in a press release signed by its Assistant Director, Public Affairs, Fatima Sanda Usara and...

The Federal Government has hailed  the outstanding performance of Team Nigeria in the just concluded 13th African Games in Ghana. Team Nigeria finished second on the medals table behind Egypt with 47 gold, 33 silver and 40 bronze medals. The Minister of Sports Development, Sen. John Owan Enoh, who conveyed...

  The Police Service Commission (PSC) has rescheduled the date for the medical screening and examination for candidates for Police recruitment into the Constable cadre across the country as a result of the ongoing Muslim Ramadan fast and the Christian Lenten period. The PSC in a statement signed by the...

The office of the National Security Advisers, ONSA, has confirmed the escape of the Binance regional manager for Africa, Nadeem Anjarwalla. Anjarwalla, Binance’s Africa regional manager,was reported to have escaped from custody on March 22, 2024, from an Abuja guest house, where he and his colleague, Tigran Gambaryan, were detained...

The Edo State Chief Judge, Justice Daniel Okungbowa, has set up a seven-man panel headed by Justice S.O. Omonua (rtd), to investigate the allegations contained in the impeachment notice against the state’s deputy governor, Comrade Philip Shaibu. Shaibu, it would be recalled, has been in the eyes of the storm...

  As part of the ongoing effort to crush insurgency and other security threats bedeviling the country, the Nigerian Military has declared Simon Ekpa and 96 other suspected terrorists wanted. The Director of Defence Media Operations DDMO Maj-Gen Edward Buba disclosed this in a statement on Saturday. Buba stated that...

  Nigeria, on Saturday, commiserated with the people and Government of the Russian Federation following Friday’s terrorist attack in Moscow. Gunmen in camouflage clothing opened fire on people at a concert in the Crocus City Hall near Moscow, the Russian capital, on Friday. The number of deaths, including children in...

The Debt Management Office (DMO) on Friday in Abuja revealed that Nigeria’s public debt stock rose by N9.43tr in three months to hit N97.341 trillion as of Dec. 31, 2023. The DMO, in its released data, said that the amount comprised domestic and external debt stocks of the federal government,...