Travellers, workers groan as conveyor belts, AC collapse at Lagos airport
Nigeria’s transport sector has grown significantly, contributing 1.65% to the economy in Q4 2021, a rise from 1.32% recorded the previous year. In real terms, the country’s GDP climbed N20.33 trillion in 2021 — an uptick from 1.32 percent recorded in 2020. Within the same period, the aviation sector grew 19.70% […]
Daily COVID Tracker: NCDC logs 45 infections — but no fatalities
Nigeria recorded 45 cases of COVID-19 on Thursday. Here are five updates about the pandemic this Friday. Australia approves Moderna COVID vaccine for children from age six to 11. Australia’s medicines regulator has granted provisional approval to Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine in children from age six to 11. Stephane Bancel, Moderna’s chief […]
Newspaper Headlines: PDP governors’ meeting in Ghana over zoning ends in deadlock
The rising tension in Osun state ahead of Saturday’s governorship primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) dominated the cover pages of Nigerian newspapers. Source: Top Stories
Only 31% of Borno teachers are competent, LEA assessment panel tells Zulum
A committee set up to conduct assessment for local education authority (LEA) teachers in Borno says only 31 percent of teachers in the state are competent to teach. Babagana Zulum, Borno governor, had tasked the committee with conducting basic literacy and numeracy competency assessment for 17,229 local education authority teachers across the 27 […]
EU must help stem economic migration of Africans to Europe, says Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the European Union to make new trade deals and policies that will help stem economic migration from Africa to Europe. Buhari, who is currently in Brussels for the EU-AU summit, said irregular migration from Africa to the global north is draining Africa’s talent pool and creating political crises […]
PHOTOS: Lagosians flood filling stations with jerrycans as petrol scarcity persists
Many Lagosians have taken to filling stations in unusually large numbers, with jerrycans, to purchase petrol. The development is as a result of the petrol scarcity that persists in the country due to what regulators have described as efforts to recall “contaminated products” in circulation. On February 9, Mele Kyari, group managing […]
Buhari healthier than most youths attacking him on health matters, says Garba Shehu
Garba Shehu, presidential spokesperson, says President Muhammadu Buhari is “healthier than most young Nigerians” criticising him on health issues. Shehu spoke on Thursday via Zoom in an interview on Channels Television. Buhari is currently in Brussels, Belgium, for the sixth European Union-African Union (EU-AU) summit. In some of the pictures of […]
NGF: We will collaborate with JTB to increase tax revenue by 200%
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) says it will collaborate with the Joint Tax Board (JTB) to increase aggregate tax revenue by 200 percent. The governors’ forum said this on Wednesday at its second meeting for the year. In a communique released after the meeting, Kayode Fayemi, chairman of NGF and governor of […]
EXCLUSIVE: Regulators ignored warnings on ‘bad shape’ of Trinity Spirit’s FPSO vessel before explosion
There were several warnings made to regulatory authorities over the state of a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel that exploded two weeks ago, TheCable understands. The Trinity Spirit’s FPSO vessel, located at the Ukpokiti terminal, around Excravos, Warri south-west, Delta state, exploded with ten crew members on board on February 3, […]
Sadiya Farouq: N5k means a lot to poor Nigerians — some people shed tears when given
Sadiya Umar Farouq, minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, says it is “elitist” to assume that the N5,000 monthly national cash transfer to vulnerable households is insignificant. The minister spoke on Thursday during a briefing with state house correspondents. She made the comment when asked about the relevance of […]