A London Commercial Court presided over by Mr. Justice Robin Knowles has ordered Process & Industrial Developments Limited (P&ID) to pay £20million Interim Cost to Nigeria in respect of the ongoing case of alleged breach of a 2010 gas supply contract. The Honourable Attorney General of the Federation, Prince Lateef Olasunkanmi Fagbem...
•Volleyball The Egypt U-17 female volleyball team defeated their hosts, Nigeria, 3-1 in the final match to lift the trophy of the 2023 Girl’s U-17 African Nations Volleyball Championship. The match was played indoors in the sports hall of Moshood Abiola National Stadium (Package B) yesterday in Abuja, reports The PUNCH. The Egyptians showed th...
•Kamil Al-Awadhi Nigeria has again been confirmed as the topmost indebted country to foreign airlines globally in far away Geneva, Switzerland. The Regional Vice President for Africa and the Middle East (AME) for IATA, Kamil Al-Awadhi, revealed this during an interactive session with journalists across Africa at the two days Global Media Day h...
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) says that Nigeria recorded a total of 77,000 new HIV infections and 43,000 AIDS-related deaths in 2022. The National Programme officer of the organization, Doris Ogbang made the disclosure yesterday in Abuja during the commemoration of World AIDS Day (WAD), by the UN system in Nigeria, re...
•Infertility The rising case of infertility among couples in Nigeria can be curtailed, if endowed Nigerians come to their aid financially to enhance their access to Advanced Fertility Care (AFC) like In vitro Fertilisation (IVF), a lecturer of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (O&G), University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Prof. Lukman Omo...
•Tinubu and Bazoum The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, has stated that Nigeria will continue to engage with the government of the Niger Republic to ensure the release of the country’s deposed President, Mohamed Bazoum. Former Nigeria’s Military Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd.), said in August that Bazoum told the del...
Kano State Government said as Nigeria records over two million in Nigeria living with HIV, Kano State has 46,732 persons currently receiving treatment. The Commissioner of Health, Dr Labaran Yusuf made this known while briefing journalists on the commemorations of the World AIDS Day with the theme: “Let communities lead” in collaboration with ...
•Girl-child in Nigeria Despite several activities that mark the annual celebration of the girl-child, the significance of the day is lost on millions of girls in Nigeria who are conditioned not to live up to their potentials by the prevailing economic conditions and societal constructs. KEHINDE AKINSEINDE-JAIYEOBA shares the story of the girl-...
•Nigerian Flag Nigeria, a country yet to be designated as a ‘Country of Particular Concern’ by the U.S. Department of State, has been listed among the worst persecutors of Christians in the International Christian Concern’s (ICC) 2023 report. The report depicts an alarming portrait of the dangers Christians face in the country, asserting that ...
Lately, the Nigerian media landscape has witnessed an upsurge in a campaign led by Olufemi Akinbode and his Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Group (CAPPA). Their mission revolves around advocating for an increase in the current 10 naira per litre tax on sweetened beverages, as stipulated in the 2021 Finance Act, to 30 naira. T...

