COVID-19
8 May 2023
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) said it was transiting the country from acute emergency response to managing COVID-19 as part of integrated healthcare delivery for all infectious diseases.
7 May 2023
Almost three years after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 pandemic a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the global health body on Friday announced an end to COVID-19 as a public health emergency,
4 May 2023
The World Health Organization's emergency committee is meeting Thursday to discuss if Covid-19 is still a global health emergency. The panel's 15th meeting on the crisis comes more than three years after it first sounded the WHO's highest emergency alarm as what was then called the novel coronavirus began spreading outside China. The independent committee…
26 Apr 2023
The WHO said Wednesday that Covid-19 deaths had dropped by 95 percent since the start of the year -- but warned the virus was still on the move.
25 Apr 2023
Ogun State Government has described as blatant falsehood, a news report, which claimed that the Federal Government refused to make COVID-19 reimbursement to the state because of pervasive corruption.
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At the end of AFCON 2023, that was in February 2024, José Peseiro, the Portuguese Manager that took the Super Eagles to Cote d’Ivoire became history. His contract was not renewed by the Nigeria Football Federation
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As part of its commitment to encourage learning and academic excellence, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) and its Joint Venture partners in OML 18, the Nigerian Content Development & Monitoring Board
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Yhung G is a rising artiste who mixes Afrobeats and Trap music. Since he started in 2017, he has gained a lot of fans with catchy songs like ‘Twisted’, ‘Fame’ and ‘Wicked Whine’.
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There may be no hiding place any longer for the embattled former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, as law enforcement agencies in the country seem to be tightening the noose on him.
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The new Ojon of Lagos, Chief Tajudeen Adisa Abisogun has paid a thank you visit to the palace of Oba of Lagos, HRM Rilwan Akiolu, three months after his coronation as a whitecap chief.
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Suspected terrorists have abducted more than 40 persons in two communities of Zamfarawar Madogara and Kasai in Batsari Local Council of Katsina State. According to reports, the incident occurred last Thursday night
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The music at the opening day of The Fabric of Courage, Somi’s week-long exhibition of the remarkable archives of the World Black Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC), which held for the second time it occurred, back in 1977, was a marvel to listen to.
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There are indications that increasing food insecurity and the resultant high cost of living is putting some strains on the smooth relationship between the National Assembly and the executive arm of the Federal Government.
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Just recently, this reporter watched a video of a reception held for Dr. Michael Iheonukara Okpara, the former Premier of the defunct Eastern Nigeria. That must have been in 1960 at the Odida Anyanwu Local Government field, Umuahia, capital of Abia State.
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The spate of piracy and maritime crimes in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG) continues to stir grave concerns. The upward push of about 50 per cent in piracy and maritime crimes recorded for the first nine months of 2023 signposts increasing danger within