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Nigeria on Monday recorded 241 cases of COVID-19. Here are five updates about the pandemic this Tuesday.  Pfizer asked to sell more COVID pills to developing countries Public Citizen, a non-profit consumer advocacy organisation, has asked Pfizer to supply more doses of Paxlovid, its COVID-19 pill, to developing countries this year. […]

Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano, says he will sign the death warrant immediately if the suspect arrested over the killing of Hanifa Abubakar is sentenced by the court. Tanko Abdulmalik, proprietor of Noble Kids School, had confessed to the killing Hanifa, a five-year-old pupil of the school. The pupil was said to […]

Olumide Akpata, president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), says the decision to postpone petrol subsidy removal is about the 2023 elections. On Monday, the federal government announced that it has postponed the planned petrol subsidy removal till further notice due to “high inflation and economic hardship”. In November 2021, Zainab Ahmed, minister […]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says in the past week, one person died of COVID every 12 seconds. Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, said this on Monday at the 150th session of the WHO executive board meeting ongoing in Geneva, Switzerland. The DG noted that it’s been two years since the organisation declared […]

The military in Burkina Faso says it has seized power and overthrown President Roch Kaboré. The announcement, signed by Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, a lieutenant-colonel, was read by another officer on state television on Monday. The development comes hours after Kaboré was said to have been detained by mutinying soldiers. Days before […]

Raymond Dokpesi, former chairman of Daar Communications, says Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president, will serve for one term if elected president in 2023.  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain spoke on Monday at the party stakeholders’ meeting in Umuahia, the Abia capital. Dokpesi, who heads Abubakar’s presidential campaign technical committee, said the former […]

The Kano government says it has revoked the licences of private schools operating in the state. Sanusi Saidu-Kiru, the state commissioner for education, announced the development on Monday at a media briefing. Saidu-Kiru said the state will begin a process to recertify all private schools based on the criteria set by the […]

There has been an explosion at the Catholic Chapel of St. John’s College, Mutum-Biyu, Gassol LGA in Taraba state. Emmanuel Ikyaan, principal of the college, told journalists that the explosion occurred around 7:20pm on Sunday. Ikyaan said no life was lost in the incident, but that the church building was destroyed. […]

The federal government has postponed the planned petrol subsidy removal till further notice due to “high inflation and economic hardship”. Subsidy or under-recovery is the underpriced sales of premium motor spirit (PMS), better known as petrol. The government had planned to stop subsidy payments on petroleum products from July this year. […]

A federal high court in Abuja has issued an arrest warrant against Diezani Alison-Madueke, former minister of petroleum resources. Bolaji Olajuwon, presiding judge, made the order on Monday, following an oral application made by Farouk Abdullah, counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Previously, Ijeoma Ojukwu, former presiding judge, had declined to […]