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Nigeria on Sunday recorded 55 cases of COVID-19. Here are five updates about the pandemic this Monday. Hundreds of people protest against COVID-19 restrictions in Belgium Hundreds of people marched through Central Brussels on Sunday to protest heightened COVID-19 restrictions imposed by the Belgian government. On Friday, Prime Minister Alexander De […]

The Lagos government has released the report of the state’s judicial panel on police brutality. On October 19, 2020, as part of recommendations put forward during the #EndSARS protests, the Lagos government inaugurated the judicial panel to investigate petitions on police brutality in the state. On November 15, the panel submitted two […]

Eight children have been found dead in a car parked on Adelayo street, Jah-Micheal, along Badagry expressway in Lagos. The children were said to be between the ages of four and six. The incident happened on Saturday. Adekunle Ajisebutu, Lagos police spokesperson, confirmed the incident to TheCable on Sunday. “The […]

The British High Commission says it will “pause making decisions” on visitor visa applications from all red list countries, including Nigeria. The decision was announced in a statement issued on Sunday by the commission. The development comes hours after the UK added Nigeria to its travel red list as a result of […]

British citizens and residents travelling from Nigeria to the UK are expected to spend £2,285 on hotel quarantine for 10 days. The development is as a result of Nigeria’s inclusion on the UK travel red list on Saturday, following the reported discovery of Omicron cases in the UK which were “linked to Nigeria”. […]

Three civil society organisations — The Corner House, UK; Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA), Nigeria; and Re:Common, Italy — have asked the Bayelsa state oil & environmental commission to investigate the recent oil spillage at Nembe LGA. The oil mining lease (OML) 29 wellhead in Santa Barbara south field had blown on […]

The Canadian government says it will not accept results of molecular COVID tests done in Nigeria and nine other African countries. The other affected countries are Botswana, Egypt, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Canada had, on November 30, banned travellers from the 10 countries over concerns about the […]

The Lagos4Lagos Movement, a splinter group within the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos, says it is set to take over the state. Members of the group on Saturday voted in favour of defecting to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Former Senate President Bukola Saraki had visited Lagos to meet with the leaders […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos says the defection of the Lagos4Lagos movement to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) cannot change the main opposition’s misfortune in the state. The splinter group defected on Saturday during an event attended by Bukola Saraki, former senate president. Reacting to the defection in an interview […]