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  The Federal Government has directed the use of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine as the only recommended booster shot. The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) spokesman, Yanda Muhammad, made this known in an interview on Friday. Muhammad stated that the government had approved the Pfizer vaccine as a ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has joined other world leaders in mourning India’s Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife, and 11 others killed in a helicopter crash. President Buhari, in a message to the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on Thursday, described the deaths as irreparable losses to ...

  The former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Bisi Akande, seemed to attack President Muhamnadu Buhari who attended his book launch in Lagos on Thursday by saying he deserved no sympathy because he wanted to be President of Nigeria. Akande, who took the hard-line stance against ...

  The Senator representing Borno South in the National Assembly, Ali Ndume, was seen controlling traffic in Abuja on Wednesday. A video that has now gone viral captured the lawmaker taking up the job of a traffic warden for a few minutes before heading to the National Assembly for plenary. ...

  Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Thursday cancelled the Lagos peace walk planned for this month. POLITICS NIGERIA recalls that Sanwo-Olu, in an address on November 30, 2021, had invited some EndSARS frontline protesters in the state to a peace walk for “the healing of Lagos”. Specifically, the governor ...

  Popular Nigerian singer, Tiwa Savage, and businessman, Obi Cubana, has topped Google’s 2021 list of the most trending people in Nigeria. Google on Wednesday released the list showing the most searched terms, moments, people, topics, events, places that capture the world’s attention in the year 2021. Savage was a ...

  The Presidency has denied President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the immediate sack of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) management. Reports had emerged that Buhari had through the minister of state for power ordered the sack of the AEDC management over the recent strike embarked upon by electricity workers. But ...

  Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesoa has said the calls for his resignation over recent jailbreaks in the country are unnecessary. This as the Minister maintained that he won’t be resigning his position over the cases of jailbreak in the country. Aregbesola made the position known on Wednesday while ...

  The Ojodu Local Council Development Association (LCDA) on Wednesday revealed the identities of secondary school students killed by a truck in the Ojodu area of Lagos State on Tuesday. A statement by the Chairman of Ojodu LCDA, Odunmbaku ‘Segun, claimed that two students died while 12 others were injured. ...

  The Lagos State Government has shut down Bab Fafunwa Millennium School, Ojodu, formerly Ojodu Grammar School until January 2022. Education commissioner Folashade Adefisayo announced this when she visited the school on Wednesday morning. Yesterday, a speeding truck rammed into some of the school’s students, killing two and injuring 12, ...