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Nigeria recorded 22 cases of COVID-19 on Sunday. Here are five updates about the pandemic this Monday.  Thousands hold protest against COVID mandates in Canada Thousands of people held a loud but peaceful protest in Ottawa, Canada, against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates, on the streets in front of parliament. […]

Asari Dokubo, leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Salvation Force (NDPSF), says people in the south-east obey the sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) out of fear of being killed. IPOB had ordered a sit-at-home order every Monday across the south-east but had suspended the directive in September 2021. […]

Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, says the federal government will look into the possibility of seeking a review of the $35,000 fee requested by Egypt from foreigners to operate a business enterprise in the country. According to NAN, the minister said this during a recent meeting with the Nigerian community in […]

Opeyemi Bamidele, a serving senator and governorship aspirant in Ekiti, says there was no primary election for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. The senator had called for the cancellation of the exercise after alleging that the primary election committee was made up of loyalists of Kayode Fayemi, Ekiti governor. […]

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says 22 international passports were found inside a bag of garri at the Lagos airport. In a statement issued on Sunday by Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesman, the agency said the passports were for six countries. Babafemi also said the passports were found during a routine […]

Bello Bodejo, national president of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, says the association will not support a southern candidate for the presidency in 2023. In an interview with The Sun, Bodejo said northerners manage the country better than their counterparts in the south. “Even though Nigeria is one, we are not going to […]

The presidency says the comment by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the cancellation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to Zamfara indicates “mischief”. President Muhammadu Buhari was scheduled to visit Zamfara on January 27 to discuss insecurity in the state and also commiserate with the people over the recent attacks in Anka and […]

Rafael Nadal came back from two set down to defeat Daniil Medvedev in the final of this year’s Australian Open to claim a record 21 grand slam titles.  The world number six achieved the feat on Sunday afternoon at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne. The Spaniard fought back from two sets […]