[allAfrica] Purchased through a private sector partnership by the corporate group that imports materials to process locally, the vaccine will be the first available to Nigerians.

[Premium Times] The plan to #OccupyLekkiTollGate came barely a day after the controversial ruling of the Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry to reopen the Lekki Tollgate.

[This Day] The federal government has barred the private sector from administering COVID-19 vaccine, reserving the vaccination exclusively for the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) for safety reasons.

[Premium Times] Nigeria is expected to receive an initial 16 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines through the Vaccines Global Assess Facility, COVAX.

[Premium Times] The government said devaluation would trigger inflation.

[Premium Times] The year's foreign investment fell by 59.7 per cent, and only 10 states and Abuja received inflows.

[Nigeria Health Watch] Medecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in partnership with the International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases (ISNTD) and other organizations is holding an online conference "Noma, a disease that should ...

[Daily Trust] Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Hakeem Odumosu, on Monday ordered Area Commanders and their respective Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) to tighten security in their respective jurisdictions ahead of the forthcoming#EndSARS protest...

[Leadership] President Muhammadu Buhari has said this year is vital for China- Nigeria relations.

[Leadership] The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has advised Nigeria to establish a unified exchange rate regime with a near-term focus on allowing for greater flexibility and removal of payments backlog.

[This Day] Abuja -- The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) and railway experts have called for an urgent passage of various railway bills before the National Assembly to open up the secto...

[This Day] The federal government has sealed an Abuja-based laboratory for issuing fake COVID-19 results to international travellers.

[Premium Times] Mr Ihekweazu noted that COVID-19 test samples were collected by the centre but there was no evidence that the tests were carried out.

[This Day] The federal government has said there is urgent need to ease pressure on the nation's wetlands from human activities because estimates show that these rare ecosystems are disappearing three times faster than forests.

[This Day] The recurring incidents of herders, farmers' clashes in some parts of the country will receive the attention of the Senate as it reconvenes from its Christmas break this week.

[Premium Times] The international monetary group advises the government to increase VAT to 15 per cent by 2025.

[Premium Times] The minister says the education system should be modified by reforming learning, curriculum and pedagogy.

[Premium Times] "Among the disease analysed, nearly 737,366 events are expected each year, of which 127,859 representing 17 per cent are attributable to cigarette consumption."

[ISS] Following Boko Haram's brutal attack on dozens of farmers in Nigeria's Borno State last November, the state governor called on federal authorities to enlist mercenaries to counter the terror group's activities in the Lake Chad Basin. This refle...

[Africa Renewal] From the spread of digital apps, like the Nigerian-based FarmCrowdy, which is helping farmers utilize technology to improve their operations, to Mpesa - the mobile money in East Africa, to the millions of mobile phone connections in ...

[DW] Former colleagues of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala speak highly of the economist as she prepares to become the next director-general of the World Trade Organization. Her tenure begins during turbulent times.

[Premium Times] "This is livelihoods for Nigerians, so why would you take actions that look as if you are taking away opportunities from Nigerians especially in a depressed economy."

[Vanguard] Nigeria's hope of quick recovery from recession and significant increase in economic growth is under threat from micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) sector which accounts for 48 percent of the nation's Gross Domestic Product (GDP),...

[WHO] "My husband was with me in the delivery room during the birth of our second child. His presence made the labour pain tolerable. It gave me a sense of calm as it had a psychological and emotional effect on me," says Mrs Taliah Chukwuma, a busine...

[This Day] George Okoh writes that the minority ethnic groups in Benue State, particularly the Idomas are mounting a sustained pressure to have the governorship position zoned in their favour.

[This Day] Justice Chuka Obiozor of the Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday fixed April 13, for the hearing of final forfeiture of the sum of $5,781,173.55 and the N2.4 billion, said to have been illegally acquired by the former First Lady, Mrs. Pa...

[Vanguard] Director General of the Tinubu Support Organisation, Mr. Aminu Suleman, has said that the entire North and its people were behind the presidential aspirations of All Progressives Congress, APC, National leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

[Vanguard] Police witnesses at the resumed hearing of the case on the Kaduna sex party, yesterday told a Kaduna court during cross examination that there was no sex party on December 27, 2020 at Asher restaurant and lounge, Kaduna.

[Vanguard] The Ondo State Security Agency Network, codenamed Amotekun Corps, yesterday, disclosed that it had arrested 15 suspected gold miners, for mining gold illegally from different locations in Owo council area of the state.

[Vanguard] Olowu of Kuta in Osun State, Oba Adekunle Oyelude, yesterday, hailed the appointment of former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.Gen. Tukur Buratai, and other service chiefs as envoys, by President Muhammadu Buhari, saying it would afford them the o...