About 140 cases of measles have been reported across 10 local governments in Taraba state, a health official in the state has said. According a statement, Innocent Vakkai, the Commissioner of Health, on Wednesday told journalists that majority of those affected were children bellow five years, who had not been vaccinated. He said the disease, […]
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Ace entertainer and activist, Charly Boy, on Tuesday, collapsed at the Unity Fountain after inhaling teargas fired at protesters by anti-riot policemen in Abuja. Apart from teargassing the protesters who are demanding that President Muhammadu Buhari either resume office or resign, the police also fired high velocity stream of water at them. Buhari has been […]
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NIGERIA – Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has advised foreign investors to take advantage of the opportunities in the Nigerian economy now or risk blaming themselves in 10 years time. Osinbajo made made this declaration when he spoke at the Presidential villa in Abuja during a meeting of delegates from the Nigerian Initiative for Economic Development […]
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The spokesperson of President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, has adviced protesters demanding the president’s resignation to do their research, as the president has done nothing out of place. The protesters marched to Aso Rock on Monday, asking the president, who has been receiving medical attention in the UK since May 7, to either resume office or […]
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Laolu Akande, spokesman of Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, said the federal government has removed Maimuna Aliyu and Sa’ad Alanamu from the board of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other offences Commission (ICPC). ICIR, an investigative website, had exposed the alleged fraudulent activities perpetrated by the two individuals whose appointments Osinbajo approved on Tuesday. While Alanamu […]
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After years of foot-dragging, the US state department has approved the sale of a $593 million A-29 Super Tucano attack planes with associated parts, training, facilities and weapons, to Nigeria. The defence security cooperation agency delivered their certification of the foreign military sale to congress, as required by law, on August 2, according to United […]
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team, which visited Nigeria from July 20 to July 31, says non-performing loans across Nigerian banks have 6 percent in 2015, to 15 percent in 2017. The team led by Amine Mati, senior resident representative and mission chief for Nigeria at the IMF, discussed recent economic and financial developments, updated […]
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Mr Nicolas Terraz, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer Total upstream companies in Nigeria, on Wednesday said that the firm would boost the country’s daily oil production by 200,000 barrels from 2018. Terraz, who was represented by Mr Biodun Afolabi, Executive Director, Corporate Affairs and Services, said that the additional barrels would come from the company’s multi-billion […]
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The Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, has spoken on the recent allegations made against him by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike. In a statement by the minister’s spokesperson, David Iyofor, on Tuesday, Mr. Amaechi said the Peoples Democratic Party governor has no concrete evidence to prove his allegations. “Wike has nothing, we mean absolutely […]
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On Sunday, US news network CNN made a mockery of the prolonged absence of President Muhammadu Buhari who has been out of Nigeria for 85 days. American journalist Fareed Zakaria, during the ‘GPS challenge,’ segment of the programme “The Global Public Square (GPS)” posed a trivia to viewers of his show: “The head of state […]
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