News

The United Nations (UN) on Thursday called on the international community to support Nigeria as it faces unprecedented floods, which have impacted more than three million people. UN Spokesperson Mr Stéphane Dujarric told correspondents at the UN headquarters in New […]

Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has expressed concern over the alarming rate of emigration of Nigerians to foreign countries describing it as a “worrisome phenomenon”. The Comptroller of Immigration Service (NIS) in Enugu State, Mr. Joachim Olumba, made the disclosure on […]

The Police Command in Kwara has arrested eight suspected illegal miners and recovered three trailer loads of marble stones in the Patigi Local Government Area of the state. The Spokesperson of the Command, SP. Okasanmi Ajayi disclosed this in a […]

President Muhammadu Buhari and his Cameroonian counterpart, Paul Biya, inaugurated a $44,000,000 bridge on Thursday in Etung local government area. The bridge, linking Nigeria to Cameroon, has two lanes and is located at the Nigeria-Cameroon border at Mfum community in […]

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has handed over 284 seized parcels of cannabis Sativa to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Kebbi. Mr Joseph Attah, the Customs Comptroller in Kebbi, handed over the seized cannabis (marijuana) to the […]

The Bank of England on Thursday jacked interest rate from 0.75 percent to to 3 percent to fight soaring inflation, the highest hike since 1989. This is despite the prediction that higher interest rates would push the economy into the […]

Nollywood actor Yul Edochie said he has received the calling of God to be a preacher. The 40-year-old actor made this known in a video shared via his YouTube channel, Yul Edochie TV. In the post, the actor claimed he […]

Kaduna State Pilgrims Welfare Agency has begun the refund of excess money paid by 1, 046 pilgrims who performed the 2022 Hajj in Saudi Arabia from the state. Dr Yusuf Arrigasiyyu, Executive Secretary of the agency said this in an […]

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has again appealed to Nigerians who are yet to be vaccinated to get the COVID-19 vaccines. Dr Faisal Shuaib, the executive secretary of the agency made the call at a one-day evaluation […]

Medical experts and pharmacists in Nigeria say the importation of substandard and fake drugs by unscrupulous elements is wreaking serious havoc in the country. Stakeholders in the health sector spoken to by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) across the […]