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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says 48 cases of Lassa fever have been recorded in 2022. Lassa fever, an acute viral hemorrhagic disease, is transmitted to humans through contact with food, household items contaminated by infected rodents or contaminated persons. The agency, in its epidemiological report for January 3 to […]

Nigeria on Sunday recorded 301 cases of COVID-19. Here are five updates about the pandemic this Monday. INDIAN COMPANY WORKING ON OMICRON VACCINE India’s Gennova Biopharmaceuticals is reportedly working on an Omicron-specific COVID-19 vaccine. According to Times of India, sources said the vaccine is already being manufactured and could be rolled […]

Ajibola Basiru, spokesman of the senate, says there is no error in the electoral act amendment bill passed by the upper legislative chamber. He spoke on Sunday at a town hall meeting on the electoral bill organised by Yiaga Africa, a civil society organisation. In December, President Muhammadu Buhari declined assent to […]

BudgIT, a civic-tech non-profit organisation, says 460 projects amounting to N378.9 billion were duplicated in the 2022 budget. Iyanu Fatoba, communications associate at BudgIT, disclosed this in a statement. On December 31, 2021, President Muhammadu Buhari signed the N17.13 trillion 2022 appropriation bill into law. The presidency had submitted a proposed fiscal budget of […]

Olumide Akpata, the president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), says the issues delaying the approval of the electoral bill may be a “smokescreen” to keep the present provisions for the 2023 polls. President Muhammadu Buhari had, in December 2021, withheld assent to the bill, stating that the clause recommending direct primary for […]

The Ebonyi government has asked residents in the state to disregard the sit-at-home order of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).  The proscribed separatist organisation had said there will be a sit-at-home protest in the south-east on Tuesday. Emma Powerful, IPOB’s spokesperson, who announced the order on Saturday, had said the sit-at-home […]

Attahiru Jega, a former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says more problems may be created if the direct primary mode is made compulsory for political parties. Speaking at a town hall meeting on the electoral bill organised by Yiaga Africa on Sunday, Jega said it is not clear if any […]

At least 15 persons have been kidnapped following an attack by gunmen on a community in Niger state. Wasiu Abiodun, police spokesperson, confirmed the development in a statement on Sunday. According to Abiodun, the gunmen attacked Kulho, a village near Ibbi in Mashegu LGA and kidnapped 15 persons on January 14. […]

Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, ousted president of Mali, is dead. He is said to have died on Sunday at his home in Bamako, the country’s capital. He was aged 76. The cause of his death has not been stated. Kieta led Mali for seven years until 2020, when he was ousted in […]