•Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer Britain’s struggling National Health Service (NHS) will expand the use of so-called community diagnostic centres, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced today, as his Labour government bids to cut hospital backlogs. The new plan, which also includes increasing private sector involvement and the use of tech...
The Lagos State Government has announced that traffic will be diverted away from Eko Bridge to facilitate emergency repairs by the Federal Ministry of Works. A statement by Commissioner For Trasnport, Oluwaseun Osiyemi today, said the repairs will be carried out in four phases, during which the bridge will be intermittently fully or partially ...
•Protest The Take It Back Movement (TIB), a key organiser of the EndBadGovernance nationwide protests, in collaboration with other protest organisers, has announced a massive one-million-man protest scheduled to take place across all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, tomorrow, Saturday, August 10, 2024. According to Mr....
•Siminalayi Fubara Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, says his administration has begun preparing the 2025 budget, which will be presented soon. He said the process is ongoing despite calls by the Martin Amaewhule-led Assembly that he should resubmit the 2024 budget proposal, reports Channels TV. Governor Fubara stated this while addres...
The plan by telecommunication operators in Nigeria to hike tariffs for data and voice calls appears not to have gone down well with Nigerians, warning that any move to further impoverish them would be resisted. The planned resistance is coming on the heels of a joint statement released yesterday, by the Association of Licensed Telecom [&hellip...
•IBEDC/UCH Barely 48 hours after the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, IBEDC, restored power to the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan, Oyo State, after agreeing on a payment package with the hospital’s management, IBEDC has said power may be disconnected from UCH if its terms are not met. UCH, however, urged IBEDC to give it time...
•Mbappe Kylian Mbappe has reportedly ruled out a move to the Premier League this summer, ending the tentative hopes Liverpool may have had on completing a deal. The Reds have been tentatively linked with a move for Mbappe ever since he first left Monaco to join Paris Saint-Germain in 2017. Since then, every transfer window […]
The UK will introduce legislation to ban disposable e-cigarettes in order to tackle a rise in youth vaping, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was to announce today, reports AFP. “As any parent or teacher knows, one of the most worrying trends at the moment is the rise in vaping among children, and so we must act […]
•Ganduje and Yusuf Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano state today Friday, January 26, said he has no plans to dump the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) on whose platform he won the governorship polls. Yusuf was responding to an invite by the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, to […]
•Tinubu The presidency has maintained that there are no plans to move the Federal Capital to Lagos as speculated in some quarters. Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to President Bola Tinubu, stated this in a statement via his official X handle today. According to Onanuga, those peddling the rumour are dishonest, [&h...