COVID: UK bans foreign travellers from Nigeria over Omicron concerns
The United Kingdom says Nigeria will be added to the countries on its red list as a result of the discovery of COVID Omicron cases linked to Nigeria. Sajid Javid, the UK health secretary, disclosed this on Saturday in a television interview. The South Africa National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) had, […]
NPA: ALL port operations to go digital by 2025
Mohammed Bello-Koko, acting managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), says deliberate measures and investments are being taken to create a fully digital ecosystem in all the country’s port locations by 2025. NAN reports that Ibrahim Nasiru, assistant manager of the agency’s corporate and strategic communications division, quoted the NPA boss as […]
Leverage technology to address insecurity, Osinbajo tells intelligence agencies
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigeria’s intelligence agencies must adopt a culture that is empirical, data-driven and analytical. The vice-president said this on Saturday in his address at the graduation ceremony of the executive intelligence management course (EIMC) 14 of the National Institute for Security Studies, Abuja. According to Osinbajo, it has become imperative […]
Lagos APC group ‘defects’ to PDP
Some members of the Lagos4Lagos movement, a group affiliated with the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Saturday, voted in favour of defecting to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Delegates of the PDP led by Raymond Dokpesi, former chairman of Daar Communications, had visited the group on November 8. The meeting with the […]
61 Kaduna Baptist church members freed — after one month in captivity
Sixty-one members of Emmanuel Baptist Church, Kakau Daji, Kaduna, have regained their freedom after one month in captivity. Joseph Hayab, chairman of the Kaduna chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), confirmed that the abductees were released late Friday. Gunmen had invaded the church located in Chikun LGA of the state […]
Babalakin, former supreme court judge, is dead
Bolarinwa Oyegoke Babalakin, a former justice of the supreme court, is dead. He died in the early hours of Saturday at the age of 94. The deceased is the father of Wale Babalakin, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and chairman, Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Ltd. The late Babalakin, who was called […]
‘Nigeria is Africa’s most attractive investment destination’ — Buhari woos investors
President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria remains the most viable and attractive investment destination in Africa. Buhari said this on Saturday while addressing a trade and investment forum at Expo 2020 Dubai. The event was organised by the Nigerian Arabian Gulf Chamber of Commerce, Nigeria’s ministry of industry, trade and investment and the […]
INTERVIEW: Kaduna government not heartless… we make tough decisions to improve lives, says Balarabe
Hadiza Balarabe, the deputy governor of Kaduna state, is the first female elected deputy governor in north-west Nigeria. In this interview, she speaks about her partnership with Nasir el-Rufai, the governor, the achievements and the challenges ahead as the administration marches towards 2023, and about the man, el-Rufai. What has changed since November […]
Maltreated and neglected: The plight of pregnant women in Nigerian prisons
Amina Abubakar(not real name) still remembers the days of horror and pain she spent at Suleja prison in Niger state. Life was beautiful for the 28-year-old when she got married in 2012. She had hopes of a blissful marriage, but little did she know that hers was going to be painful and tough. […]
Femi Falana: White paper on Lagos #EndSARS panel report is illegal
Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, says the white paper on the report submitted by the Lagos judicial panel on police brutality is illegal. On November 15, the Lagos judicial panel submitted two documents — a consolidated report on police brutality and an investigation into the Lekki shooting incident — to the state government. […]