[Premium Times] President Muhammadu Buhari recently signed the COVID-19 Health Protection Bill 2021, making the use of face masks in public places mandatory, among other measures to curtail the further spread of pandemic.

[Premium Times] "This will replace the earlier communicated 100,000 doses of Pfizer mRNA vaccine..."

[Premium Times] "If they insist on having these additional tests being done, then PTF has decided that their operations will be suspended into Nigeria."

[This Day] Abuja -- The federal government has fixed a meeting with the leadership of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non Academic Staff Union of Universities and Allied Institutions (NASU) on Tuesday (tomorrow)

[Vanguard] The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has declared Kogi a high-risk state for refusing to acknowledge the existence of the disease.

[WHO] Abuja -- "I have always believed that gender equality would impact positively on the provision of high-quality health care in Bauchi state," says Amina Madi a Gender Desk officer, Human Resource for Health (HRH) unit in Bauchi State Ministry of...

[Premium Times] The official said the Nigerian government is worried about the high number of health workers getting infected.

[Premium Times] 9Mobile CEO, Alan Sinfield, says a pilot free roaming scheme that allows customers of each company to switch to the network of the other where its own has no coverage has run smoothly in Ondo State.

[This Day] Udora Orizu writes that the long awaited Petroleum Industry Bill maybe jinxed for the umpteenth time, following altercation and divergent views between members of the National Assembly, oil producing communities, organised labour and vario...

[This Day] The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 (PTF) has identified 22 Local Government Areas in 13 states of the federation as the hotspots of the new spike in COVID-19 epidemic in the last six weeks.

[This Day] The Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Mr Sarki Auwalu, has said that the federal government is moving the headquarters of the industry regulator from Lagos to Abuja for the sake of central...

[This Day] Analysing State Power to Regulate Residence and Commerce under the Constitution

[IPS] Hyderabad -- Lilibeth Evarestus of Lagos, Nigeria doesn't like the concept of handouts -- she is against the idea of thinking of leprosy-affected people as weak.

[Vanguard] The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, says the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines from Covax will arrive in Nigeria in February.

[This Day] Many Nigerians were understandably shocked, surprised, if not alarmed last week, when they suddenly heard the news that the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari had finally decided to relieve the service chiefs appointed in 2015 of their...

[This Day] Court documents filed by Access Bank in the case between it and Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc, have shown that the oil firm may have benefitted and indeed utilised the loan obtained by Cardinal Drilling from the banks, its lawye...

[This Day] The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, has reiterated the federal government's resolve to enhance revenue mobilisation as well as Nigeria's competitiveness.

[Premium Times] Mr Igboho, arrived Ogun on Monday, saying he was visiting to help expel problematic herdsmen.

[Premium Times] The University of Abuja has announced a resumption of academic activities on February 1.

[Vanguard] Some of our supposed compatriots of Fulani extraction have been taunting Yoruba to war of late thinking that the people are a senseless group who will fight as a first resort without choosing their battles and weigh the cost of a war.

[Premium Times] The currency was stable at the black market.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Abuja -- Halima and her sister were among more than 200 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants

[This Day] Ibrahim Shuaibu presents an account of collusion between security agents, government officials including staff of the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission to turn a blind eye to widespread incidences of underage voting at the state'...

[This Day] Awka -- The federal government, through the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, yesterday said it distributed N56million to 2,800 indigent women, including widows, the vulnerable and the disabled i...

[This Day] The furore generated by the under-the-table transactions allegedly involving the President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria ((AFN), Shehu Ibrahim Gusau and a former Technical Director of the federation, Sunday Adeleye, has resulted i...

[Vanguard] The newly appointed Service Chiefs yesterday stormed Borno State, as they made their first official trip to the centre of the war against Boko Haram terrorist group, promising to step up the war against insurgency, and other violent crimin...

[This Day] Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to wake up and fight the banditry in his backyard.

[This Day] Abuja -- The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday expressed dismay over what it described as President Muhammadu Buhari's reported violation of his own executive regulation on COVID-19, which provides for six-month jail term for defaul...

[Vanguard] Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has again appealed to South East governors to as a matter of urgency, ban all manner of open grazing in the region in compliance with the 1969 statutory law of the Federal Gover...

[This Day] Bauchi -- The Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel Development has announced the selection of Bauchi State for the implementation of its Artisanal and Small Mining (ASM) Cluster development project for the north-east geopolitical zone.