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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has officially declared a nationwide strike. Source: Top Stories

Nigeria recorded 38 cases of COVID-19 on Sunday. Here are five updates about the pandemic this Monday.  France scraps COVID testing requirement for vaccinated visitors from UK France has dropped its COVID-19 testing requirement for vaccinated travellers arriving from the UK. According to the French interior ministry, from 12 February, travellers […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (APC) has declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the Abaji area council chairmanship election in the federal capital territory (FCT).  The election was conducted on Saturday in over 60 wards spread across the six area councils in the FCT. TheCable had reported that the Peoples […]

The Lagos state government says the developer of the three-storey building that collapsed in Onike area of Yaba, Lagos state, will be prosecuted. Five bodies have been recovered while two others were rescued following the collapse of the building on Saturday afternoon. An earlier statement by the ministry of physical planning and […]

The police command in Niger state says security operatives have rescued 20 kidnap victims following an attack on Nasko, Magama LGA of the state. Wasiu Abiodun, spokesman of the command, announced the development on Sunday in Minna, the state capital. Abiodun stated that bandits attacked some villages around Nasko on Saturday and […]

The body of a student on industrial training (IT) has been recovered from the rubble of a collapsed three-storey building at Yaba, Lagos. The three-storey building collapsed on Saturday afternoon. Ibrahim Farinloye, south-west zonal coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), confirmed the recovery of the student’s body on Sunday. Farinloye said […]

Kassim Afegbua, a former commissioner for information in Edo state, says there are grounds for zoning of political offices in the constitution. Afegbua said “zoning means the same thing as federal character” and only aspirants with “selfish and egocentric” interests would say that there is no such provision in the constitution. Section […]

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested Vyapak Nutal, an Indian businessman, for allegedly smuggling 134,700 bottles of codeine syrup into the country. In a statement on Sunday, Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesman, said the suspect allegedly loaded trucks with the syrup in Benin Republic. He was said to have come […]

Gunmen alleged to be security operatives have razed the houses of suspected members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN) in Umuonyeoka Ihitteafoukwu and Okponkume communities in Ahiazu Mbaise LGA of Imo. According to Emeka Obasi, a resident of Ihitteafoukwu, who spoke with TheCable, the armed men came in seven cars to search for […]