Deadly throat disease kills 61 in Kano
An outbreak of diphtheria infection has claimed 61 lives in Kano State as of March 2, 2023. The Kano State Case Manager, Dr Salma Suwaid, disclosed this on Monday at a webinar organised by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention with the theme ‘Diptheria outbreak in Nigeria: Vaccination Response.’ Dr Suwaid also said […]
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Good Day! Below are Summary of News Stories across Nigeria and Abroad: 1. The Central Bank of Nigeria has disbursed N114.17bn to beneficiaries under its 100-for-100 Policy on Production and Productivity since the commencement of the intervention. This was disclosed in a communiqué issued by the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, after the last Monetary Policy […]
FG warns against panic-buying, opens up on nationwide fuel scarcity
The federal government has disclosed why there is slight fuel scarcity nationwide. It stated that the just concluded presidential and National Assembly Elections are the reason for the scarcity. In a statement on Sunday by the Chief Executive of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, Engr. Farouk Ahmed, the authority warned Nigerians […]
2023 ELECTION : MURIC THANKS THE NORTH
An Islamic human rights advocacy group, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has expressed appreciation to the North for keeping its promise on power shift to the South. The group described the North as the bastion of honour, the citadel of nobility and the abode of integrity in Nigeria. MURIC made the declaration in a press […]
FEBRUARY 25 HEIST: IS THE JUDICIARY STILL THE LAST HOPE OF THE COMMON MAN?
By Law Mefor Since the return of Nigeria to the current democratic dispensation, the judiciary has increasingly made incursions in determining electoral victories and outcomes. In many cases, their judgments are based on technicalities, like the case of Senator Ademola Adeleke in 2019, in which a judge failed to do the needful and Adeleke lost […]
INEC Chairman Remarks On 2023 Elections
REMARKS BY THE CHAIRMAN, INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION (INEC), PROF. MAHMOOD YAKUBU, AT A MEETING WITH THE RESIDENT ELECTORAL COMMISSIONERS (RECs) HELD AT THE INEC CONFERENCE ROOM, ABUJA, ON SATURDAY 4TH MARCH 2023 National Commissioners Our Resident Electoral Commissioners The Secretary to the Commission The Director General of the Electoral Institute Directors and other Senior […]
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Good Day! Below are Summary of News Stories across Nigeria and Abroad: 1. The Independent National Electoral Commission has so far uploaded 159,509 results from 176, 846 polling units, seven days after the presidential poll. The figure represents 90 per cent of results from all the polling units. The electronic transmission of results was still […]
PMB attends UN conference in Qatar
The President, Muhammadu Buhari , will on Saturday attend the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries in Doha, the capital city of Qatar. According to the President’s spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, the development followed an invitation by the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad […]
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Good Day! Below are summary of News Stories Across Nigeria and Abroad: 1. President Mohammandu Buhari has apologised to Nigerians over the cash crunch caused by the naira redesign policy while urging the people of Kaduna State to vote for the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressive Congress Senator Uba Sani. DAILY POST 2. The […]
Supreme Court Orders Old Naira Notes To Remain In Circulation
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered that old N200, N500, and N1,000 notes remain in circulation till December 31, 2023. The apex court also nullified the Federal Government’s naira redesign policy, declaring it as an affront to the 1999 Constitution. Justice Emmanuel Agim, who read the lead judgement, held that the preliminary objections by the […]