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The British government has said that all 11 countries will be removed from the UK’s travel red list from 4am on Wednesday. Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe are on the list. The red list was reintroduced in late November as a precaution after the emergence of the Omicron variant. But Health Secretary ...

The Nigeria banking sector is one of the most organised institution, being people’s lender and also accepting deposits.   However Zenith bank customers seems to have been shortchanged from the reality as continuous lamentation and groaning can be witnessed over the bank inability to reversal of funds by customers as the festive period close in.   Zenith Bank plc which ...

ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke and the Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba. The Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Education, Sonny Echono, on Thursday said most of the agreements reached with the Academic Staff Union of Universities were under duress. Echono stated this during a retreat organised by the governing council of the University of Abuja. ASUU ...

The Federal Government will today (Friday) begin the administration of booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines.   The Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib, stated this on Thursday in Abuja as the Africa Centre for Disease Control, an agency of the African Union, kicked against the introduction of booster doses in African countries. Nigeria had on ...

The Ojodu Local Council Development Area has revealed the identities of secondary school students killed by a truck in the Ojodu area of Lagos State on Tuesday.   The students were going home after closing from school around 2 pm when the truck ran over them. In a statement titled ‘Events of fatal motor/pedestrian accident at Ojodu involving students’, Executive ...

he Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday afternoon announced that three additional cases of the Omicron variant have been reported.   The new cases bring the total of the recently discovered variant of the COVID-19 virus in Nigeria to six. The NCDC in the statement signed by the Director-General, Ifedayo Adetifa further explained that the three additional cases ...

At least 13 school children died in Lagos Tuesday after a truck reportedly suffered a brake failure and rammed into them, witnesses said.   The children were returning from school when the incident happened. The exact number of casualties is yet to be ascertained. The accident happened along Isheri Road, just before the Ojodu Police Station. Businesses along the road ...

The President, African Development Bank Group Akinwumi Adesina has called the ban placed on African countries over the outbreak of the Omicron variant of the Covid-19 pandemic as ‘discriminatory’. Adesina made the statement as part of the reactions following the recent series of ban imposed on countries in the continent. The Omicron variant was first confirmed in South Africa on ...

MTN Nigeria plc, Mafab Communications Limited, and Airtel Networks Limited have been confirmed as the approved bidders for the 3.5GHz spectrum auction.   Specifically, the spectrum auction aims at the deployment of Fifth Generation (5G) Technology by January 2022.   The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) announced this in a statement signed by the Public Affairs Director of the NCC, Dr ...

The Lagos State government has rejected the resolution of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters that no fewer than nine persons lost their lives when armed soldiers stormed the Lekki toll gate to disperse #EndSARS protesters on October 20, 2020. This claim, which was contained in a 41-page White Paper ...