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Nigeria on Wednesday recorded 84 cases of COVID-19. Here are five updates about the pandemic.  Medical experts ask governments to review COVID guidelines Iorhen Akase, head of infectious diseases unit, department of medicine at Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), has called on the federal and state governments to review their COVID-19 response guidelines […]

Dave Umahi, governor of Ebonyi, says lawyers of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) misled the judge into issuing the court ruling ordering his removal as governor. Umahi said this on Wednesday while addressing a crowd of his supporters in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi capital. A federal high court sitting in Abuja had, on […]

Global oil prices plummeted by over 13 percent as the United Arab Emirates called for an output hike amid supply disruptions caused by sanctions on Russian oil.  On Wednesday, Brent crude futures, the global benchmark, fell 13.36 percent to $110, while West Texas Intermediate plunged $12.44 percent to $108.3.  Crude oil prices […]

Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna, says the lawyers of Mai Mala Buni, Yobe state governor, colluded with a petitioner to “destroy” the national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC). On Monday, Abubakar Sani Bello, governor of Niger, took over as the APC caretaker committee chairman — replacing Buni who was appointed to […]

A Russian airstrike hit a maternity and children’s hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Wednesday.  Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky described the incident as an “atrocity”, adding that children are among those trapped in the wreckage of the destroyed building. At least 17 people are reported to be wounded, although the […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has reviewed the list for its national convention sub-committees. The party’s convention is scheduled for March 26. The reorganisation of the list comes hours after after Abubakar Sani Bello, Niger governor, took charge of the party. Mai Mala Buni, ousted APC caretaker committee chairman, was booted […]

India has surpassed Nigeria as the nation with the highest number of extremely poor people. The World Poverty Clock (WPC) said this in its recent update, considering the COVID-19 pandemic economic effect. The World Poverty Clock is an online tool that monitors the progress against poverty globally and regionally and provides real-time […]

David Bennett, a 57-year-old man with terminal heart disease who had undergone a first-of-its-kind pig heart transplant, is dead. According to a statement by the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), Bennett died on Tuesday. In January, he had undergone a successful transplant of a genetically-modified pig’s heart. The organ […]

The federal executive council (FEC) has approved a ban on foreigners and their representatives purchasing agricultural produce at the farm gate. This implies that only licensed and duly registered local buying agents can now buy farm produce directly from farmers in Nigeria. According to the federal government, the effort is to ensure […]