[This Day] A global alliance against COVID-19, COVAX, has donated a total of 16,008,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Nigeria.

[Premium Times] The World Cancer Day is an initiative of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) and is celebrated annually on February 4.

[Daily Trust] Lagos -- Prominent leaders of thoughts under the aegis of the National Consultative Front on Tuesday said they are set to launch a mega political movement aimed at rescuing Nigeria.

[This Day] The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, has said asking the oil companies operating in the country to relocate to the Niger Delta without first addressing the security concerns in the area would escalate crude o...

[Daily Trust] The First Lady, Hajiya Aisha Buhari, has lost her photographer, Mr Mohammed Yusuf Ovajimo.

[Premium Times] The FCT Minister, Mohammed Bello, has been running the territory with ad-hoc secretaries in the last 17 months.

[This Day] Nigeria's opponents in the men and women's basketball events of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan next summer have emerged with the D'Tigress paired along side world Number 1, USA, European powerhouse, France and hosts Japan in Group ...

[This Day] Lagos and Abuja -- Another reprieve came yesterday for mobile telephone subscribers yet to link their subscriber identification modules (SIM) with their National Identity Numbers (NIN) as the federal government extended the deadline by two...

[This Day] The federal government and the organised labour will reconvene on February 22 for the consideration of the reports of their technical committees on fuel price and electricity tariff.

[Leadership] Niger State governor Abubakar Sani Bello has stated that security and infrastructure development would remain paramount as the state marks 45th year anniversary.

[East African] Abuja -- Despite the Nigerian military's efforts to end banditry, at least 31 people have been killed this week in different locations in the country including Niger, Kaduna and Zamfara states.

[This Day] A Civil Society Organisation, Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) has reiterated that only the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) bill can stop the reoccurring incidents of genital mutilation, rape, unhealthy...

[Nation] Elite athletes have been dealt another major, coronavirus-induced blow with organisers of the rich Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) Half Marathon announcing the cancellation of this year's race.

[This Day] A former National Chairman of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, yesterday described the visit of some serving All Progressives Congress (APC) governors to former President Goodluck Jonathan to alle...

[This Day] Abuja, Lagos -- A former Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido, yesterday rebuked governors of All Progressives Congress (APC) that are said to be pushing for former President Goodluck Jonathan to run in 2023 on their party's platfo...

[This Day] It is time to modernise the way we rear cattle in the country

[This Day] Last Thursday, a Judge of the Delta State High Court released a press statement claiming that Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) tests conducted on the three children from his first marriage (to a woman from whom he is now divorced) reveal that h...

[This Day] The Ekiti State Government has said it would no longer sponsor pilgrimages to Mecca and Jerusalem.

[The Conversation Africa] The Fulani in the Ibarapa community of Oyo State, southwestern Nigeria, are mostly migrants from the northern part of the country. A small number come from neighbouring Chad, Niger, Benin Republic and Cameroon. These settler...

[Daily Trust] Born on April 15, 1937, in Jimeta in the present Adamawa State of Nigeria, Muhammadu Gambo Jimeta was a former Inspector General of Police (IGP). He attended Jimeta Elementary School (1947-1949), Yola Middle School (1950-1955), Bauchi P...

[This Day] Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, has stressed that no ethnic group should dominate other ethnic groups in the bid to resolve the recurring clashes between herders and farmers in some parts of the country.

[This Day] The reappointment of Hadiza Bala Usman as the managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority would enable her consolidate on giant strides she recorded during her first tenure in office.

[This Day] Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has called on those fanning the embers of discord under the guise of Nigeria's ethnic diversity to repent, rather, they should leverage on the strength of such diversities for national growth.

[This Day] The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Boss Mustapha, has urged Nigerians to disregard conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 vaccines.

[Daily Trust] The Police Command in Kogi state has introduced a "rescue me App" in the state to help citizens under attack by criminals as it plans to swoop on them in their nefarious activities to make life unbearable to citizens in their environmen...

[This Day] Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State is committed to reforming the education sector in the state in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the State Commissioner for Education, Mrs Idongesit Etiebet has said.

[This Day] The government and private sector players have been advised to fund and support the skit economy in view of its potential for economic diversification and poverty alleviation.

[Premium Times] The IGP and other top officers attained the mandatory 35 years in service last Monday.

[This Day] The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Senator Kabiru Gaya, has said suggestion that married underage girls should have the right to vote has been rejected.

[This Day] The re-arraignment of former governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Kalu was yesterday stalled at the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court.