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Nigeria on Thursday recorded 47 cases of COVID-19. Here are five updates about the pandemic this Friday. Italy approves Pfizer COVID vaccine for children The Italian medicines agency (AIFA) has announced the approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for children between the ages of five and 11. The agency said children […]

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called for renewed measures to address the “dead” local government system in the country. Speaking on Thursday when he delivered a graduation lecture at the National Institute for Security Studies in Abuja, Jonathan said states must take deliberate steps to revive the local government system. He also […]

The Zamfara government has barred officials of ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) from speaking to the media on policies and programmes of the state. According to NAN, Ibrahim Dosara, Zamfara commissioner for information, said this on Thursday while addressing journalists in Gusau. Dosara said the Zamfara government will “centralise information management” to […]

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies known as OPEC+ have agreed to retain plans to increase oil output by 400,000 barrels per day.  The new decision is for oil production in January 2022. The oil cartel made the decision at the 23rd OPEC and non-OPEC ministerial meeting (ONOMM) […]

The Lagos judicial panel on police brutality says the state government is trying to evade responsibility by citing computer errors in the #EndSARS report. According to the panel’s report, protesters were killed at the Lekki tollgate on October 20, 2020 in what could be described in context as a “massacre”. In a […]

Usman Baba, inspector-general of police (IGP), says the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) is facing gross housing deficit as less than 10 percent of its personnel in barracks have proper accommodation. Baba spoke on Thursday at the quarter four 2021 public private partnership units consultative (3PUCF) meeting organised by the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission […]

Fatalities from the cholera outbreak in 2021 doubled the number of COVID-19 related deaths in the same period. Shocked? Don’t be. The data checks out. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), cholera is an acute diarrhoeal disease that can kill within hours if left untreated. It is estimated that there are […]

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has announced three telcos as approved bidders of the forthcoming 3.5 gigahertz (GHz) spectrum auction for the deployment of the fifth generation (5G) networks. The qualified bidders include MTN Nigeria Plc, Mafab Communications Limited, and Airtel Networks Limited. Ikechukwu Adinde, NCC’s director of public affairs, said this in a […]

A federal high court in Abuja has ordered the Department of States Services (DSS) to allow Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), to have the “maximum possible comfort” in its facility. Kanu has been in the custody of the DSS since his extradition to Nigeria in June 2021. […]