Nigeria’s capacity for rapid and increased testing for COVID-19 may receive a boost soon as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has successfully validated the...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Monday night confirmed 216 COVID-19 cases in the country. The centre said on its Twitter handle that the...
The number of Nigerians who have contracted the COVID-19 pandemic continued on the rise on Saturday with the country recording 176 new cases. The Nigeria Centre...
Nigeria’s weekly capacity for COVID-19 is set to increase by 9,100 following Federal Government’s readiness to repurpose the tuberculosis GeneXpert machines that have been deployed in...
A number of Nigerians who were stranded in the United Kingdom as a result of the COVID-19 breakout have been airlifted to Nigeria. They landed at...
Lebanon’s Ministry of Health has informed that no fewer than 25 passengers on a flight from the city of Kano to Beirut have tested positive for...
Crisis equals opportunity. And difficult roads often lead to amazing destinations. Always? Sometimes? Brutus to Cassius in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare put it succinctly: ’’There...
Another set of Britons, no less than 304 of them were on Tuesday evacuated from Nigeria through the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos, by...
Apart from the great reform brought by COVID-19 to the health sector in Nigeria, one of the other areas that seems to have witnessed the wind...
The Nigerian House of Representatives has resolved to probe the legality of Chinese nationals and their businesses in the country. The aim is to ensure that...
What has been unveiled so far by CBN are mere palliatives, and are inadequate to stop the looming mass business failure. The 13 suggestions below should...
If there is any programme of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration that has enjoyed the most attention, spiced with unfair criticisms – hinged mostly on beer...
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is pushing for measures aimed at easing the debt burden of about $3.4 trillion on Nigeria and...
Oil prices showed some signs of recovery Wednesday morning as US oil futures jumped by over 20% and Brent eased after falling for two days as...
Doctors Without Borders (MSF), an international humanitarian medical non-governmental organisation of French origin has confirmed the death of one of its aid workers to COVID-19 in...
Nigeria and other countries in Africa require $114 billion to tackle the coronavirus pandemic successfully, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said. A statement released by...
A new report by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has revealed that a slump in fuel imports by Nigeria and other countries in West...
The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, and the President of the World Bank, David Malpass Friday declared that China and other G-20...
Capital outflow of more than $4.2bn has been lost by Nigeria and some other sub-Saharan Africa countries since the end of February as a result of...
Journalism in Nigeria is on the decline, and its credibility is steadily being destroyed. The solution lies in the hands of practitioners. They can reverse the...
A 71-year-old farmer, has been arrested by the Ondo State Police Command on Monday for allegedly beating his wife to death at Idanre town in the...
The Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF), a regional military force fighting the Boko Haram, have denied knowledge of the reported pull out of Chadian forces. According...
Nigeria and other regional member nations will get emergency credit of up to $10 billion from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to battle COVID-19. Akinwunmi Adesina,...
Despite calls from several citizens, including the Nigerian Medical Associations (NMA), to the federal government to set aside its plan to bring Chinese experts into the...
The World Bank Tuesday announced it had given Nigeria medical support in the sum of $82 million, its own bit of global institutions’ assistance to nations...
Africa’s largest oil producers, Nigeria and Angola, may lose $65 billion of their income to the harsh, monumental impact of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, an...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Sunday morning announced additional 10 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country. The 10 new cases, according to NCDC,...
Archbishop Samson Benjamin has called on the Nigerian government not to accept any form of aid or personnel from China in efforts to eliminate the covid-19...
International credit rating agency, Fitch Ratings, has noted in its latest outlook for the Nigerian banking sector that banks across the country face acute threats from...
The latest debt profile of Nigeria has revealed that borrowing by the Federal Government alongside the 36 states of the federation plus the Federal Capital Territory...
The UK Government has pledged up to £75 million to bring its stranded citizens around the world back home amid the outbreak of the COVID-19 disease....
The Nigerian Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, on Monday, stated that another Nigerian has died from the coronavirus disease. He stated this at a press...
The German Mission has informed its citizen’s resident in Nigeria of its intention to airlift nationals wishing to leave over fears of the spread of the...
No fewer than 70 Israeli nationals were evacuated from Nigeria by Air Peace airline on Saturday over fears of the spread of the deadly COVID-19 disease...
The United States of America through its Embassy and Consulate in Nigeria has ordered its citizens living in the country to prepare for evacuation flights out...
“We must make sure about two things, namely: that our principles are just and that are methods are practical; for nothing destroys her own ends as...
The number of people suffering from the dreaded coronavirus disease in Nigeria has now risen to 36, the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire confirmed on Monday....
Statistics released on Sunday by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) reflects that it sold around 21.51 billion litres of petrol estimated at N2.64 trillion, indicating...
A six-month long investigative story, with laboratory tests, by RUTH OLUROUNBI and KELECHUKWU IRUOMA reveals how contaminants in the air, water and soil, as a result...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has confirmed five new cases of the deadly coronavirus infection also known as COVID-19 in Nigeria, which originated in Wuhan, China,...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has declared that the accumulated bill of the power supplied by Nigeria to its West African neighbours – Benin, Togo...
The global oil market may be right at its darkest hour as oil prices plunged below $30 per barrel on Monday. Governments around the world are...
These 5 latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. SpotOn secures $50 million in Series B Funding after a...
The nation’s spending on importation of petrol plummeted to N1.713 trillion in 2019, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Tuesday have shown....
The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Thursday agreed to another cut in production adding up to 1 million barrels per day (bpd) among its fourteen...
Riding on the back of an economic growth that surpassed forecasts in the fourth quarter of 2019 and stimulated expansion in the four years to 2019,...
Israel on Tuesday declared its readiness to help Nigeria tackle the Boko Haram insurgency in the North East. The Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, Shimon Ben-Shoshan, who...
The fear of coronavirus has forced the Presidency to embark on a preventive measure to keep the country’s seat of power free of the deadly disease....
A Consultant Virologist, Dr Adeola Fowotade, has claimed that the hot temperature currently being experienced in Nigeria could actually suppress the spread of the deadly coronavirus...
The downtrend in the oil market reached a new nightmarish height Thursday as the Brent (against which Nigeria’s Bonny Light is benchmarked) tumbled to $51 a...
