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Ahead of G7 Leaders Summit in the UK this weekend, a joint letter by UNICEF goodwill ambassadors urged G7 leaders to share at least 20 per cent of available COVID-19 vaccine doses or risk resurgence. Priyanka Chopra Jonas, David Beckham, Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, Whoopi Goldberg, Angélique Kidjo, and Liam Neeson lent their voice to a call by 28 high-profile UNICEF...

Some gunmen Thursday attacked  Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria, in Kaduna State,  abducting some lecturers and their families. Kaduna state authorities have confirmed two lecturers and eight students were kidnapped in an armed attack on Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria on Thursday. One student was shot dead in the attack, according to Samuel Aruwan, Kaduna’s commissioner for internal security and home affairs. Aruwan said...

President Muhammadu Buhari has replaced Professor Armstrong Idachaba, acting Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). Idachaba was replaced with Mr Balarabe Shehu Ilelah, a veteran broadcaster. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced the appointment of Ilelah in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday. He said Mr. Ilelah’s appointment is for a tenure of five years in...

The Nigerian government is currently negotiating a fresh $14.4 billion loan which is about N5.9 trillion to finance two rail lines in the country. Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi disclosed this in an interview with Bloomberg. According to the minister, Standard Chartered Plc, a British multinational bank will be funding the project despite previously announcing the state-owned Export-Import Bank of China. The...

Governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi, has called on residents of the state to rise up and fight invaders and killer herdsmen who attack them, instead of waiting for security agents to come to their aid. Umahi who also offered amnesty to armed youths in the state during an enlarged security council meeting in Abakaliki on Thursday, added that the...

The Presidency has said enemies of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration are trying to cause a crisis between the President and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, following a comment the President made in an interview on Arise TV on Thursday. Buhari, while responding to a question on zoning of political positions in the ruling...

 President Muhammadu Buahri says all his appointments are strictly based on merit and in accordance with his administration’s zeal to serve Nigerians. Buhari said this during an exclusive interview with Arise TV on Thursday morning. Some critics of the Buhari administration have accused the president of nepotism. After the death of General Ibrahim Attahiru, former Chief of Army Staff, Buhari appointed General...

The Debt Management Office (DMO) stated on Wednesday that the country added N191 billion to its debt stock between January and March. As a result, Nigeria’s overall debt has increased to N33.107 trillion as of the end of March 2021, up from N32.916 trillion in December 2020. The debt stock comprises of the Federal Government of Nigeria, 36 state governments, and...

The House of Representatives Wednesday passed for second reading, a bill seeking establishment of state security outfits that complement the operations of the Nigeria Police Force. The bill titled ‘A Bill for an Act to Alter the Provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 to Give Legal Backing to State Security Outfits to Complement the Nigeria...

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has set up a 7-member screening committee for aspirants seeking the party’s ticket for the November 6, 2021, governorship election in Anambra State. In a statement on Wednesday, Secretary of the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Sen. John James AkpanUdoedehe, said the committee is expected to conduct the screening exercise in line with the...