The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has declared that no vaccine would be brought to Nigeria unless certified safe and effective. The Executive Secretary of the agency, Dr Faisal Shuaib, made the assertion in at a national sensitisation…
Airtel Nigeria, a telecommunications service provider on Thursday says it has commenced the National Identity Number (NIN) registration exercise in its retail outlets across the country. Airtel in a statement made available to the Newsmen in Lagos said it was…
Minister of Interior Rauf Aregbesola has cautioned travel agencies never to engage in trafficking and smuggling into the country or outside the nation. He made the call during a joint stakeholders dialogue on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) and Smuggling of…
The Police in Osun on Wednesday arraigned an 80-year-old Octogenarian, Bakare Adeyemi, before an Osogbo Chief Magistrates’ Court for an alleged fraud of N350, 000. Adeyemi was alleged to have fraudulently obtained the sum of N350, 000 from one Kazeem…
The Commissioner for Health in Sokoto State, Dr Ali Inname, says four persons have died and 56 hospitalised as result of the outbreak of diarrhea, occasioned by water contamination in Sokoto, the state capital. Reports state that the incident occurred…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday met behind closed doors with the new service chiefs at the Presidential Villa. Reports State that the service chiefs, who were appointed on Tuesday, arrived at the villa in their old official vehicles at about…
As residents complain of delay in getting their COVID-19 test results, Oyo State has recorded 21 more cases of infection, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 5, 094. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in…
The Yobe Government said it had constructed and rehabilitated various roads to cushion the effects of the destruction caused by Boko Haram insurgents in the state. Umar Duddaye, Yobe Commissioner for Works, disclosed this on Wednesday in a document he…
World Cup winner Mesut Oezil will not return to the Bundesliga or the German international team, he said during a signing ceremony with Turkey’s Fenerbahce on Wednesday. “Once I take a path, I never turn back,” Oezil told a press…
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) on Wednesday embarked on sensitisation and compliance assessment of COVID-19 protocols for schools in FCT and Nasarawa State. Some of the schools visited are Government Secondary School (GSS) Mararaba, Local Government Education Authority (LGEA) Primary…
