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The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has disclosed that 2, 897, 201 people had taken the COVID-19 vaccines in Nigeria. The Executive Director, NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this on Tuesday, in Abuja, […]

Commuters along Ikorodu road on Monday were stranded as commercial drivers parked their buses along the Onipanu/Palm groove axis over alleged extortion by men of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Unit (Task […]

The world has passed the grim threshold of 4.5 million Covid-19 deaths, according to an AFP tally on Monday, as the virulent Delta variant wreaks havoc globally. Since the outbreak emerged in China in December […]

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) says it will continue to collect Value Added Tax (VAT) from businesses operating in the country. Muhammed Nami, executive chairman of FIRS, made this known in a letter dated […]

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) on Monday disclosed that over N100 billion worth of illicit drugs have been seized in Nigeria. He said […]

Nigeria’s latest impressive economic growth would have been better if the country had been more secure, the finance minister, Zainab Ahmed, has said. Mrs Ahmed said save for the country’s spate of insecurity that has […]

Balarabe Ilelah, director-general of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), has called on media platforms to adhere to the regulations of the commission. Ilelah said the commission will not hesitate to “keep on summoning anyone who […]

NOBEL Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has asked the government of the Republic of Benin to release Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, because he has committed no offence. He also warned […]

Federal Government is set to launch e-border patrol across all its land borders to checkmate issue of illegal immigrants and other criminal activities in the country. The Comprotoller General of Nigeria Immigration Service, Muhammed Babandede […]

The United States government has charged three men with attempted illegal importation of arms and ammunition to Nigeria. The defendants, who are all residents of Maryland in the U.S., are: Wilson Nuyila Tita, age 45, […]

A US air strike in Afghanistan killed two high-profile ISIS targets and left another wounded, the Pentagon said Saturday. No civilians were hurt in the attack early Saturday, which followed the suicide bombing Thursday that […]

A notorious banditry kingpin in Katsina State, Usman Idris, aka ‘Ruga Kachallah’, is asking for compensation for his burnt house and grains and the arrest of his wives as the condition for ending his criminal […]

The Federal Government has started the payment of backlog of Conditional Cash Transfers, under the Household Uplifting Programme to at least 8,000 beneficiaries in Delta. Finance Officer, National Cash Transfer Office, Mrs Judith Ofuani, disclosed […]

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, indicated on Friday that the Federal Government had not recovered N5.15tn owed to it by third parties. The PUNCH had reported on March 31, […]

The Lagos State Government on Thursday charged traditional rulers in the state on conflict resolution, fostering communal peace and economic development in their domains. Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs, Dr. Wale Ahmed, gave […]

Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun, has listed kidnapping and cultism as the biggest security challenges confronting Ogun state. Abiodun made this known while hosting the new Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone […]

Kwara Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Thursday sought improved funding for primary healthcare and easing of legal logjams militating against effective running of the system. Speaking at the opening session of a one-day meeting on improving […]

Assembly threatens to arrest finance commissioner The people of Okun land and Kogi West are demanding that the state’s governorship seat be zoned to them. In a statement to mark the 30th anniversary of the […]