Nigeria
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Dr Idowu Audu, the Deputy Incident Manager of National Polio Emergency Operations, on Saturday said Nigeria has been consuming 70 percent of the world’s polio vaccines without significant results. Audu, while speaking in Ilorin during a meeting of experts, lamented that while the country was consuming most of the world’s polio vaccines, the virus has…
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Caverton Marine has called on marine industry stakeholders to pay utmost attention to safety on all waterways in the country to position the industry for unlimited growth. Speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting on safety and insecurities in Abuja, the Chief Executive Officer, Caverton Marine, Olabode Makanjuola, said the entrenchment of safety across Nigeria will offer…
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Starlink, the satellite internet service owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, has paused its planned increase in monthly subscriptions for Nigerian users. In a message sent to subscribers on Thursday, the company, which serves 24 million users, stated that the price hike would be suspended while it addresses regulatory issues. Customers who have already been charged…
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Nigeria's Peace Effiong has said that she wants to make her late mother proud by helping the Flamingos win the ongoing 2024 FIFA Under-17 Women's World Cup in the Dominican Republic. Effiong speaking on Thursday in an interview with the official website of FIFA said her mother supported her all the way to becoming a…
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Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has condemned the scrapping of Nigeria's Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, calling for an immediate reversal. President Tinubu recently announced the ministry’s dissolution as part of wide-reaching reforms, establishing in its place the Ministry of Regional…
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The Flying Eagles have set a date with Niger Republic in the semi-finals of the WAFU B U20 Championship currently going on in Togo with the game scheduled for Saturday. Nigeria came from behind to edge a flaming battle with Cote d’Ivoire 2-1 in Lome on Thursday to reach the semi-finals of this year’s WAFU…
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About 83 cases of Circulating Variant Poliovirus Type 2 (cVPVD2) have been recorded in the country this year. Consequently, the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has called on the federal government to increase immunization coverage and intensify efforts to stop the cVPVD2 transmission, particularly in the Axis of Intractable Transmission (AIT) states of Katsina, Kano,…
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Nigeria has been ranked among the African countries that have experienced the most substantial decline in governance performance since 2014 over the past decade, according to the 2024 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) on Wednesday. IIAG, which tracks governance performance across 54 African countries, shows that from 2014 to 2023, Nigeria’s overall governance score…
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Nigeria’s public debt has risen to NN134.3 trillion ($91.3 billion) in the second quarter of 2024, according to the Debt Management Office
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Ahead of the Conference of Parties (COP29) of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, ActionAid Nigeria has called on the Nigerian government to advocate for the revitalisation of the shrinking Lake Chad. The Country Director of ActionAid Nigeria, Andrew Mamedu, speaking at a National Dialogue and Pre-COP 29 meeting organised by ActionAid Nigeria (AAN) and…
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that the principle of regionalism, which was adopted at independence and is still being carved today, is the root of Nigeria’s problems. Rather than thinking about which part of the country a leader comes from or which region should produce the next president, he urged Nigerians to focus on…
22 Oct
Dr. Tajudeen Abbas, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, revealed that Nigeria requires an investment of $3 trillion over the