[VOA] Abuja, Nigeria -- A Chinese official in Nigeria says Beijing plans to invest over $300 billion in Africa to increase African exports and help close the large trade gap with China. China's plans for more investment in Africa have been welcomed b...

[Premium Times] "I pledge to you that in the coming months you will begin to witness a shift away from a protracted insurgency to peace building, stabilisation, and ultimately development in your respective communities as we embark on a revised appro...

[The Conversation Africa] In Nigeria, the West African Examination Council and National Examination Council are the agencies that conduct the Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations. The results serve as evidence of completion of secondary school i...

[Premium Times] "The cause of the explosion is currently being investigated and we are working with necessary parties to contain the situation."

[Premium Times] What is clear now is that this government and the next cannot continue to turn a blind eye to the huge opportunity cost of fuel subsidy.

[Nigeria Health Watch] As countries undergo a demographic and epidemiological transition, the healthcare demands of the citizen change. These transitions are triggered by improvements in public health and medicine which has meant that some countries ...

[Vanguard] 24,000 Nigerians are reported missing and being traced by their families, according to the International Committee of Red Cross, ICRC.

[Premium Times] "This is a global approach applied in every country," an official said

[Premium Times] The survey, titled Status of Women's Political Participation in Nigeria, is part of the Improving Electoral Integrity and Accountability in Nigeria Project funded by the MacArthur Foundation.

[Premium Times] Their debts to First Bank and Polaris Bank had been taken over by AMCON and their assets were subsequently seized to be resold.

[Premium Times] "To prepare itself more for intra African collaboration to fight public health challenges, work together to promote vaccine production in Africa, and prompt response to climate change and the zero-emissions targets..."

[Vanguard] Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Wednesday, signed the bills for the establishment of additional two universities in the state.

[Vanguard] Calabar -- The Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Calabar Cross River state has kick-started a 30-bed space facility that comprises an intensive Care Unit, Community clinic, Isolation centre amongst others.

[Vanguard] Covid-19 pandemic, insurgency, terrorism and banditry resulting in destruction of education facilities, killing and kidnapping of school children and teachers have tremendously fueled the crisis in the education sector in subsahara Africa....

[Vanguard] When we declared bandits as terrorists, my understanding was they would be dealt with ruthlessly, says Lawan lI'm working on new approach to end insurgency -- Buhari lPromises drastic change in North East within months

[Vanguard] BUT for January 24 announcement by the Federal Government that it was shelving the planned subsidy removal on petrol and its attendant petrol pump price increase, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and its affiliates would have held last week's...

[Vanguard] A Floating Production, Storage and Offloading, FPSO, has exploded in Escravos, Delta State.

[Vanguard] The Nigeria Air Force NAF, has reportedly pounded Gwaska's bandits camp with airstrikes killing not fewer than 43 high profile terrorists and their foot soldiers in Katsina State.

[Vanguard] Kano State Consumer Protection Council, KSCPC, yesterday, uncovered and sealed a factory where adulterated and unhygienic cooking oil was being refined in the state.

[This Day] Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola has disclosed that a total of 1,350,000 passport booklets were printed and distributed by the federal government in 2021, almost double of the output achieved in 2020.

[This Day] Abuja -- The Senate yesterday received a formal request from President Muhammadu Buhari to confirm five nominees as executive directors of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority.

[This Day] Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has disclosed that no fewer than 90 per cent of terrorist elements who had a change of heart and repented from the life of crimes in the State have actually turned over new leaf.

[This Day] Security operatives comprising police, army and local vigilante men yesterday killed three kidnappers along the Benin/Ekpoma road, in Edo State.

[This Day] The federal government will today launch The Integrated Energy Planning Tool in collaboration with Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL).

[This Day] Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has charged all federal government regulatory agencies to change their orientation towards doing business.

[This Day] The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC)has withdrawn attached officers to Hon. Shina Abiola Peter following his sponsoring a bill at the National Assembly seeking the scrapping of the paramilitary agency.

[This Day] United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), has disclosed that about 8,000 children had been recruited in fighting war against Nigeria since the start of the Boko Haram crisis in the North East in 2009.

[This Day] More countries in Africa, Asia and Europe are pushing for the adoption and rollout of 5G network, despite perceived fears in some quarters that 5G technology will cause so much interference to aviation signals and even health hazards to hu...

[This Day] A report by Renaissance Capital yesterday indicated that Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt and Kenya regarded as the "Big Four" accounted for over 50 per cent of the $477 million raised by African start-ups in January this year.

[This Day] The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a $25 million Opportunities to Learn Activity in Borno and Yobe states.