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• Woos govs, goes against illegal vaccination cards•‘How expanded COVID-19 testing assisted Nigeria in managing pandemic’ The Federal Government is to engage the Nigeria Governors’ Forum on mass vaccination of citizens. It restated the December 1 deadline for federal civil servants to take the COVID-19 vaccines. The government also warned that vaccination records/certificates would be verified to detect unscrupulous citizens who …

Adegboruwa warns against review, threatens to make the report public The Lagos State #EndSARS Judicial Panel on Police Brutality and Other Related Abuses has submitted its report to the state government. The report was submitted yesterday to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu at the Government House, Ikeja. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu (fifth right); with his deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat (fifth left); Chairman, Lagos …

The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, yesterday, warned that the 54 percent hike in electricity meter prices, as well as the rise in prices of gas, may push Nigerians to the wall. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, had,  announced a 32.8 percent and 21.7 percent increase in the cost of electricity meters, adding that there will be …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday gave the Federal Government an ultimatum of three weeks over failure to fulfill lingering demands. This is coming as the Senior Staff Association of Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities met today to deliberate next moves over the failure of the Federal Government to meet the union’s demands. The PUNCH reports …

“…we are gearing up to further engage with the Nigerian Governors’ Forum to push through the mass vaccination programme and mandate for our citizens,” the PSC chairman said. The Nigerian government has said it would not relent on the mandatory vaccination policy, especially for civil and public service officers, saying the country is experiencing an increase in case fatality ratio. …

“ASUU NEC members, like many other concerned Nigerians, did not accept the report of the ASUU FUTO congress…,” ASUU president said. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has rejected the report submitted by a committee in its Owerri, Imo State zone, on the appointment of Nigeria’s minister of communications and digital economy, Isa Ibrahim, popularly known as Pantami, as …

Bill’s passage assigns an Under Secretary to oversee the Agency, mandates services to rural areas, provides authorities for a new Minority Business Development Grant program and the creation of partnerships with HBCU’s and minority-serving institutions Washington, D.C. – U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo, today, announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) has been …

President Joe Biden on Monday signed into law a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package and marked the major legislative victory at a White House event with lawmakers from both parties. “The bill I’m about to sign into law is proof that despite the cynics, Democrats and Republicans can come together and deliver results. We can do this. We can deliver …

• Patient Spends Between N20, 000 To N150, 000 Monthly To Stay Alive• Country Has Highest Number Of Diabetics In Sub Saharan Africa• Diabetes Kills More People In Nigeria Than COVID-19, TB, HIV/AIDS, Cancer Combined – EMSON• 100 Years After Discovery, Insulin Still Out Of Reach Of Many As the world, today, marks the World Diabetes Day (WDD), experts are …

In Nigeria, financial technology is now all the rage with the proliferation of tech companies riding on the back of the country’s fast-evolving banking system and its vast population of digitally enabled youths to drive inclusion. That space has been made more vibrant by the incursion of foreign fintechs bringing turnkey solutions as varied as mobile lending, e-commerce, payments and …