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The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, has convened a meeting with commissioners for health in the 36 states as part of efforts to ensure effective sharing and distribution of COVID-19 vaccine. The Plateau State […]

Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, has said the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has given specific orders to military commanders to shoot non-security personnel armed with AK-47 […]

Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra state, has faulted the alleged payment of ransoms to rescue persons abducted by bandits. Obi, who was a vice-presidential candidate in the 2019 general election, said Nigeria is not […]

Northern traders have agreed to begin the supply of perishable food items to southern states and end the blockade of food trucks that began on February 25. TheCable gathered that traders agreed to a partial […]

Petrol scarcity in Abuja and neighbouring Nasarawa and Niger states persisted on Tuesday and provoked an over 100 per cent rise in transport fares in many locations of the affected areas. Also, hundreds of black […]

By Abujah Racheal The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has said that Nigerians under the age of 18 years will not receive the COVID-19 vaccines in the country. Minister of State for Health, Dr […]

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) says it has jammed the signals of a pirate radio claiming to be “Radio Biafra” in most parts of Lagos. Ekanem Antia, the Deputy Director, Public Affairs of NBC, made […]

The kidnapped schoolgirls of Government Secondary School in Jangebe, Zamfara State, have been released, SaharaReporters has gathered. Last Friday, suspected bandits attacked the school in Talata-Mafara Local Government Area and kidnapped many students. The police […]

Femi Adesina, presidential spokesperson, says Nigerians will be informed if there’s any ransom payment for the release of 317 students abducted from Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Zamfara state. Adesina stated this on Monday, when […]

Apopular Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has described the kidnapping of schoolchildren by bandits as a lesser evil. The cleric who has been visiting bandits in the forest in an attempt to negotiate a […]

Ondo state government has suspended the activities of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and the Road Transport Employees Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) with immediate effect. The government has also directed taxi drivers […]

When the verdict came, it reduced the Paris court to a stunned silence: Nicolas Sarkozy was guilty of corruption and influence peddling, and sentenced to three years in prison, two of them suspended. France’s president […]

By Thursday, April 9, 2020, ten days after Nigeria entered a partial lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Nigerian security officials had extra-judicially killed 13 people while enforcing the curfew – the virus had only […]

By Precious Igbonwelundu About 200 clubbers and workers were Saturday night arrested at popular Cubana Night Club for alleged breach of COVID-19 protocols. Detectives attached to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Monitoring Team at […]

In a new video trending on social media, the self-styled Yoruba warrior, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has threatened to go after politicians of Yoruba extraction who are already campaigning ahead of the […]

Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has demanded an independent medical evaluation of President Buhari’s physical and mental capacity to govern Nigeria. The Former Minister made the demand while reacting to the abduction of 317 […]

The Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria has explained why its members stopped the movement of food items from the North to the South. The body commenced an indefinite strike following the […]