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Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has taken a swipe at the Arewa Consultative Youth Movement, describing them as the most ignorant of what is happening in the Niger Delta for saying that he was over politicizing the Nembe oil spill. Diri, who was speaking as the guest of honour at the All Ijaw Summit, organised by the Ijaw …

Citizens of The Gambia have thronged out to participate in the country’s presidential election. However, a majority of them failed to comply with COVID-19 safety guides. The election process commenced by 8 a.m. in many polling stations in the country. Many voters were seen crowded and without face masks in some polling stations visited by PREMIUM TIMES on Saturday morning. …

A common criticism of Nigeria’s democracy and politics is that it is unrepresentative. For a country’s leadership to achieve social justice, its composition must largely reflect the populace. In the case of Nigeria, young people, who account for the majority, are often on the margins of power, if at all they are accounted for. This exclusion is a significant drawback …

• Mass Vaccination Begins January 2022• States To Tackle Vaccine Skepticism• Govt Pledges Support For Local Medical Industry• Germany Gives Nigeria 5.1m Vaccine Doses• USAID Commits $73m To Anti-Virus Response As COVID-19 continues to ravage humanity across the world, Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire has stressed the need to strengthen Nigeria’s health security architecture to ensure that the nation …

The Budget Office of the Federation has said restructuring Nigeria into six regions is pivotal to reducing the high cost of governance. It noted that the number of ministers also needs to be pruned and the number of political office holders and their aides reduced, lamenting that the huge recurrent expenditure had constrained the provision of good roads, steady power …

The COVID-19 vaccines purchased by the Mastercard Foundation and the Africa CDC through the Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative have arrived Nigeria. The Johnson and Johnson brand vaccines arrived at the international wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja at 4.30p.m. on Monday, November 29. According to the organisation, UNICEF Nigeria received the vaccines and will be responsible for the …

The Lagos State Government on Friday ordered the indefinite closure of Dowen College, Lekki, pending the outcome of an investigation into the death of Master Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, a student of the school. This was contained in a statement signed by the Assistant Director, Public Affairs, of the Lagos State Ministry of Education, Ganiu Lawal. The statement read, “The Lagos …

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, says all is set to launch the pilot nationwide deployment and use of Virtual Court Proceedings in Nigeria’s Correctional Centres. Malami said this in a statement by Dr Umar Gwandu, his Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, on Friday in Abuja. He said the pilot project …

The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on the investigation of the Lekki Tollgate incident and cases of police abuses has disclosed how it arrived at the finding that a massacre occurred at Lekki tollgate on the night of October 20, last year. In a response to the Lagos State government’s white paper, released on Thursday, the panel said it …

The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate allegations of duplication of projects, worth N20.138 billion, in the 2021 budget. The House resolved to set up an ad-hoc committee to investigate the allegation by the Chairman of the Independent and Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Bolaji Owasanoye, that 257 projects were duplicated in the 2021 budget. The anti-graft …