Nigeria
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 08:57:56 GMTFuel Scarcity - More Suffer As Oil Firm Announces 24-Hour Operations
[Premium Times] The crisis has led to increased cost of transportation, and many were stranded at bus-stops Tuesday.
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 04:55:49 GMTRights Group Sues Authorities Over Twitter Agreement
[VOA] Abuja, Nigeria -- A Nigerian rights group has filed a lawsuit to force authorities to publish an agreement reached with Twitter in January to lift a block on the social media company. The rights group says the failure by Nigerian authorities to...
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 04:42:50 GMTWhat Buhari Said About Fuel Subsidy, Inserted Projects in 2022 Budget
[Premium Times] President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, wrote the National Assembly seeking the approval of a supplementary budget of N2.55trn for fuel subsidy and the removal of N887.99 billion worth of projects inserted into the 2022 budget by the ...
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 06:08:55 GMTNigeria Has Capacity to Repay Its Debts, Our Worry Is Fiscal Deficit - IMF
[This Day] The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday said although it doesn't doubt Nigeria's ability to repay its soaring debts, it was concerned about the country's rising ratio of debt-to-Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 04:42:55 GMTLucky to Be Alive Amid Hunger in Nigeria
[MSF] Although the annual peak in malnutrition cases should now be over in Nigeria, dozens of severely malnourished children continue to occupy beds in Médecins Sans Frontières' (MSF) intensive therapeutic feeding centre in Katsina City, in the cou...
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 04:42:43 GMTCountry Suffers Deadliest Lassa Fever Outbreak
[CAJ News] More people than usual are dying from the Lassa fever in Nigeria.
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:34:55 GMTOba of Benin to Receive Bronze Artefacts
[Vanguard] The physical handing over of two bronze artefacts from Jesus College, University of Cambridge and University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom by the Nigerian High Commissioner to Britain to HRM Omo N' Edo, Oba Ewuare 11, will take place w...
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:34:52 GMTSowore Predicts Imminent Collapse of Main Political Parties Set to Declare Presidential Ambition
[Vanguard] Barely a year to Nigeria's general election, Mr Omoyele Sowore, Nigerian human rights activist, pro-democracy campaigner, former presidential candidate, and founder of Sahara Reporters has predicted the imminent collapse of the two major p...
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:34:49 GMTPeoples Democratic Party Will Remain in Opposition If... - Lamido
[Vanguard] Former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, warned yesterday that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, would remain in opposition in 2023 if it failed to resolve its issues, particularly acrimony, arising from the allocation of power.
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:34:46 GMTWhy We Must Impeach Deputy Governor - Zamfara Legislature
[Vanguard] The Zamfara House of Assembly declared in Gusau on Tuesday that no court order could stop its impeachment of the state's Deputy Governor, Alhaji Mahdi Aliyu-Gusau.
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:34:42 GMTPanel Recommends Demotion of Abba Kyari
[Vanguard] Following the rejection and the return of the investigation report of the Special Investigation Panel which investigated suspended Commander of IRT, DCP Abba Kyari in the $1.1million Hushpuppi internet fraud scam and subsequent directive b...
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:34:38 GMTBad Fuel - Buhari Didn't Order Query of Nmdpra Head - Presidency Source
[Vanguard] CONTRARY to story making the rounds that President Muhammadu Buhari ordered that a query be issued to the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, over the importation of adul...
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:34:36 GMTLawmaker Urges Multinationals to Protect Niger Delta Environment
[Vanguard] Chairman, House Committee on Oil and Gas and Environment, Delta State House of Assembly, Pullah Ekpotuayerin, has tasked multinationals in Niger Delta to ensure adequate protection of the environment by not dumping toxic waste in the sea a...
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:34:33 GMTWe're Helpless, Have Nowhere to Go, Say Victims of Port Harcourt Shanties Demolition
[Vanguard] Port Harcourt -- More than three weeks after Rivers State government destroyed several shanties across nine waterfront settlements in various spots in Port Harcourt following an eviction notice, the majority of the over 1000 displaced resi...
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:34:29 GMTSenate Begins Move to Amend 35-Yr Old Bank Employees Declaration of Assets Act
[Vanguard] The Senate on a Tuesday considered a bill seeking to amend the 35-year old Bank Employees Declaration of Assets (BEDA) Act 2010.
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:07:32 GMTDoctors Protest Killing of Colleague in Benin, Want Thorough Investigation
[Vanguard] Benin City -- Activities at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) were temporarily disrupted, yesterday, as members of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) protested the killing of their member, Dr Otote Osaikhuomwan, aged ...
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 06:58:32 GMTCovid-19 - Nigeria Records 33 Infections Tuesday
[Premium Times] NCDC said in Nigeria a total of 254,124 have now been discharged nationwide.
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 06:13:14 GMTBring Back Your Former Colleagues, Opposition Party Tasks Ex-Governors
[Premium Times] The PDP leadership says former governors who left the party had benefitted enormously from it.
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 06:13:14 GMTNo Plan to Demolish Official Residences of Senate President, Speaker
[Premium Times] The Abuja administration said the official residences of the President of the Senate and the Speaker did not, in any way, contravene the extant Abuja Master Plan.
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 06:13:14 GMTGovernor Bello Updates Buhari On Kogi Security, Says North-Central Deserves Presidency
[Premium Times] Mr Bello says Kogi is the most peaceful state in the country.
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 06:13:13 GMTSenate Passes Forensic and Fraud Examiners Bill
[Premium Times] The Senate also passed three other bills for concurrence.
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 06:11:00 GMTNigeria Will Fold Up If Peoples Democratic Party Loses in 2023 - Lamido
[This Day] A former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, yesterday, warned that the country might fold up if the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), lost the 2023 election and therefore, appealed to the party to resolve its issues particularly, the acr...
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 06:10:57 GMTEU Pledges to Partner Nigeria On Investments, Developmental Issues
[This Day] The European Union (EU) Commission yesterday said it would continue to partner Nigeria on business opportunities, investments and other development initiatives.
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 06:09:10 GMTOil Firm Moves to Ameliorate Queues Nationwide
[This Day] The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) yesterday said the supply of petrol would normalise across the country in a few days, announcing that between now and the end of February, it expects at least 2.3 billion litres of the product...
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 06:09:08 GMTBuhari Departs Abuja for EU-AU Summit in Belgium
[This Day] President Muhammadu Buhari departed Abuja yesterday to join European and other African leaders as well as heads of multilateral organisations at the sixth European Union (EU) -African Union (AU) summit in Brussels, the Belgian capital.
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 06:09:06 GMTFrance, Nigeria Collaborate to Contain Terrorism, Piracy
[This Day] The France government, yesterday, pledged to collaborate with Nigeria in a renewed bid by both countries to contain terrorism and piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 06:09:03 GMTBuhari Accuses National Assembly of Inserting N887bn Into 2022 Budget
[This Day] President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday criticised the National Assembly for removing crucial projects from the 2022 budget estimates sent to it by the executive and inserting the lawmakers' projects to the tune of N887 billion in the fiscal ...
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 05:42:48 GMT5 Killed As Boko Haram Bombs Explodes in Borno
[Leadership] Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted by suspected Boko Haram/ ISWAP terrorists has killed five people in Borno State.
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 05:42:47 GMTAtiku Caught in Web of Opposition Party's Zoning Dilemma
[Leadership] It's no longer news that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is at a crossroads over zoning of its presidential ticket ahead of the 2023 election.
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 05:42:45 GMTSenate Passes Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau Bill
[Leadership] Senate has passed the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (Establishment) Bill 2021.