Nigeria said it may consider resorting to the policy of reciprocity against the United States on visa restriction imposed on its citizens, The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) Comptroller-General, Mohammed Babandede, said this while explaining the new visa policy that was launched by President Muhammadu Buhari earlier in the year, noting that the new Nigerian...
Read MoreGunmen on motorcycles killed six French aid workers, a Nigerien guide and a driver in a wildlife park in Niger on Sunday, officials said. The group was attacked in a giraffe reserve just 65 km (40 miles) from the West African country’s capital Niamey, the governor of Tillaberi region, Tidjani Ibrahim Katiella, told Reuters....
Read MoreNigerian former president, Olusegun Obasanjo has tested negative to the coronavirus, a result of the test conducted on him by a Lagos-based laboratory has shown. According to a spokesman for the ex-president, the test was conducted on Friday the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) Pent House residence, Abeokuta, Ogun State Molecular Genetics Laboratory 54gene....
Read MoreLagos and Ogun States may experience fuel scarcity as from Monday as the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has directed its members within the two states and environ to embark on strike to protest Police harassment, poor states of roads and the unending traffic on Apapa where tank farms are...
Read MoreNigeria’s Private Sector led Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) said it’s set to distribute food palliative and nd other relief items worth N23 billion to about 1.7 households across the country. According to a statement by Dangote Group chief corporate communication officer, Anthony Chiejina, the food palliative and other relief items are meant to mitigate...
Read MoreThe chief executive of ATB Techsoft Solutions Ltd, Abiodun Atobatele has offered to support Risikat Azeez, a blue-eyed mother of two blue-eyed daughters in Ilorin, Kwara State. In a post on his Facebook page, Atobatele offered to provide scholarships for the girls up to the university level and cash support, including accommodation for the...
Read MoreBy Oludare Mayowa “The country needs a complete overhaul of the government structures, the process of recruiting leaders and economic managers to free the country from bad leadership and mismanagements across the board.” Nigerians are being squeezed on all sides by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic induced economic hardship as the local currency...
Read More“Facebook has a long history of copying features from rivals, but even by that benchmark, Reels stands out.” Facebook-owned Instagram launched Reels, a product that is nearly a carbon copy of TikTok, in the US and more than 50 other countries, including India, Brazil, the UK and Germany, CNN has reported. In a Zoom...
Read MoreLagos State has effected a 48 percent reduction in its Land Use Charge (LUC), bringing it back to the pre-2018 charges, according to the state commissioner for finance Rabiu Olowo. Olowo also said the state has also waived penalties of LUC for Year 2017, 2018 and 2019, which effectively cost the state a total...
Read MoreThe Ogun State government has reversed its decision on payment of N25,000 for covid-19 test by students of private schools in the state as the governor directed that government laboratories across the state should carry out the test at no cost to them. Dapo Abiodun, the state governor also directed that those who have...
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