The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has issued a stark warning over the country’s worsening Lassa fever epidemic, revealing a disturbing surge in infections, with 811 confirmed cases and a sharply rising death toll of 152. As of the epidemiological week 28, 11 confirmed cases and one death have been recorded in 2025, with […]...
•Natasha and Akpabio The allegation of sexual harassment levelled against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, took another turn yesterday when High Chief Emmanuel Uduaghan, the husband of Kogi lawmaker, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, said he was aware of the claims by his wife. He noted that he had spoken to Akpabio about the matter befo...
•Car owners now turn to public transportation The country’s economic crisis and soaring petrol prices have forced Bolaji Emmanuel to give up his driver and his Honda Pilot utility vehicle. He is struggling with spiking living costs, reports AFP. Emmanuel is not alone. Many in Africa’s most populous country are abandoning their cars as the [&he...
•Petrol scarcity The prolonged petrol scarcity worsened in Lagos, Ogun and other states, yesterday, as independent marketers started lifting the product from private depots at N780 per litre, from N595 per litre, indicating an increase of 31 per cent. The marketers believe the hike in price reflects the current demand and supply of the product...
•Oil tanks Many tankers are currently at various depots in Lagos waiting to load Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, for onward delivery to states across the country as the scarcity of PMS worsens. It was gathered yesterday that though some of the trucks had started loading, the supply of the product by the Nigerian […]
•Kidnapped Nigerians No fewer than 2,140 people were reported kidnapped across 24 states of the country between January and July 2024, findings have shown. The research was conducted through a careful analysis of various kidnapping incidents reported in four Nigerian newspapers, namely The PUNCH, The Guardian, The Nation, and Vanguard during t...
•Tanker drivers The ongoing leadership tussle rocking the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) branch of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), seems to have worsened as some aggrieved members of the Association held a parallel election in Abuja. A huge number of the Association members who are dissatisfied by the recent el...
•Cholera The Lagos State Government says death from the state’s cholera outbreak has increased from 15 to 21, while infections also increased to 401 from 350 infections. Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Health, Dr Kemi Ogunyemi, said the rise in cases was anticipated following the Eid-el Kabir celebration, in which large gatherin...
The depreciation of the naira has caused the country’s foreign loans to balloon. Nigeria’s external debt stock (debt owed to foreign entities) has increased by N28tn due to the devaluation of the Nigerian naira against the United States dollar, findings reveal. According to the latest debt profile data published by the Debt Management Office, ...
•Prepaid meters The poor electricity situation nationwide has worsened with the decline of power supply to the national grid. Many communities across the length and breadth of the country have since last month been experiencing low energy supply and in some instances, outright blackouts, reports The Nation. Yesterday, the Transmission Company ...
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