[This Day] Nigeria is set to host the 2022 African Junior and Cadet Fencing Championship slated for between February 23 and February 27in Lagos with continental powerhouses Egypt and South Africa leading the roll call of participating nations.

[VOA] Nigeria is making its debut in cross-country skiing at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

[Premium Times] The government says the identities of the companies involved in the importation will be made public soon.

[Premium Times] Minister Lai Mohammed said the applications show that things are not as bad in Nigeria as being painted.

[Premium Times] Overall, the index shows a ranking of the world's 50 leading emerging markets.

[VOA] A radio program in Nigeria is helping break through conservative culture barriers by highlighting cases of gender-based violence, or GBV. Even before the COVID-19 lockdowns, many women and girls were victims of GBV.

[Nigeria Health Watch] Nigeria is among the countries where about 17% of health care facilities had no access to a water source as at 2019. A 2019 joint WHO/UNICEF report showed that worldwide, 896 million people use health care facilities with no wa...

[Africa Check] "DNA tests will be done freely at government clinics and hospitals as of June 2022." That's the claim made in a number of Facebook and Twitter posts shared in South Africa.

[Premium Times] ASUU said Nigerians should hold the government responsible if another industrial action hits the Universities in no distant time.

[Vanguard] Abuja -- The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has named four companies responsible for importing bad petrol into the country which has led to an acute shortage of the product across the country.

[Premium Times] Mr Malami had completely exonerated the executive arm of government in the problem of delays of such high-profile corruption cases, describing it as entirely "a judicial affair". PREMIUM TIMES reported the minister's claim to be inacc...

[Vanguard] Romanus Amuta, the ace and popular Nollywood actor, better known for playing Natty in 'New Masquerade', the popular Nigerian sitcom, has passed away 79.

[Vanguard] Abuja. -- In making good the warning of its Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Brigadier-General Buba Marwa (rtd), Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Tuesday night stormed a popular nightlife relaxation garden at...

[Premium Times] Nigerian public education requires all the support it can get at this point in time.

[Vanguard] Despite overwhelming rejection by workers and most Nigerians of the bill sponsored by Garba Datti Muhammed, (All Progressives Congress, APC, Kano), to alter the 1999 Constitution (as amended) to remove the National Minimum Wage, NMW, from ...

[Premium Times] The bill seeks to amend the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020.

[Premium Times] Mr Sharif-Aminu asks the Court of Appeal to stop the Kano State government from retrying him for blasphemy, and also declare the Kano State's Sharia law unconstitutional.

[Premium Times] His flourishing career suffered a setback after a stroke in 2009.

[Premium Times] It would be recalled that the students of the university had on October 1, 2021, staged a mass protest over the death of a final year student, Aisha Adesina.

[Vanguard] Jolted by the reports of incessant ritual killings across the country, the House of Representatives, yesterday, asked the Federal Government to declare national emergency on the social vice.

[Vanguard] One week after detection of bad petrol in some states of the federation, evacuation is yet to start due mainly to huge volume of the product, logistics and costs to be borne in the process of moving it from depots and filling stations to d...

[Vanguard] The International Monetary Fund, IMF, has said there is no universal case for central-bank digital currencies, CBDC.

[Vanguard] The United Nations will offer a 1.1 billion dollars humanitarian assistance to 8.4 million people in the North-East in 2022.

[Premium Times] The new policy is bound to lead to scarcity of goods in the country and will trigger inflation, they warned.

[This Day] The Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) yesterday alleged that the N621 billion for the rehabilitation of 21 critical road infrastructure in the country had been hijacked by politicians and persons in the concerned ministry.

[This Day] Any voter who engages in double registration risks one-year jail term, payment of N100, 000 or both. This is according to the newly passed 2010 Electoral Act (amended) Bill 2022 currently awaiting the assent of President Muhammadu, Buhari.

[Leadership] The leaderships of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) and Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) have called on all state governors to ensure immediate implementation of N30,000 minimum wage and consequential adjustments for teachers in their re...

[Leadership] The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) yesterday raised the alarm over plans to scuttle the signing of the 2022 Electoral Act amendment bill.

[Leadership] The President of the African Development Bank, (AfDB), Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, has lamented the dwindling economic fortunes of the African continent which he said had a decline in its Gross Domestic Product, GDP, by $165 billion in 2020.

[Vanguard] The operatives of the Imo State Police Command on Wednesday said it has raided two terror camps, killed three suspected commanders of the Eastern Security Network, ESN, of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and arrested nine others in Okwu...