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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NSCDC) has intensified its Lassa fever response after confirming infections among frontline health workers during the peak transmission season. The agency warned that strict compliance with Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) measures remained the most effective defence against hospital-based transmission. Dr Jide Idris, Director-General of the NCDC, issued the advisory on Monday in Abuja …

Mr Valentine Achum, an advocacy expert, has called for sustained enforcement, legislative backing and technological strengthening of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) as the initiative enters its second decade. Achum, Advocacy Lead for Equal Trade Alliance based in The Hague, made the call in a statement on Monday in Abuja, describing the TSA as Nigeria’s most successful fiscal reform. He …

  Aside from freezing their assets, the US has also barred all US persons and entities from transacting with the named individuals. The US government has frozen the assets of eight Nigerians for alleged links to terrorist organisations and cybercrime. This action was taken through the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and appears on a 3,000-page …

  According to the statement, the arrival of the US military trainers followed a formal request by the Federal Government of Nigeria to the US government. The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) Abuja, has announced the arrival of about 100 United States military personnel and associated equipment at Bauchi Airfield as part of ongoing defence cooperation between Nigeria and the United States. …

Many of the Democrats who came to the Munich Security Conference this weekend want to be president. But even if one of them can win the White House in 2028, they may find they can no longer claim the title every American president since the 1940s has borne: leader of the free world. California Gov. Gavin Newsom went on stage …

  -Over Electoral Act 2022 review tenure for local governments Obidigbo urges NASS -NASS on CONSTITUTION REVIEW and state legislature -NASS security summit, N758bn pension liabilities Senators and members of the House of Representatives will reconvene in plenary on Tuesday, 17 February. An announcement by the Clerk to the National Assembly, Mr Kamoru Ogunlana, did not provide further details other …

  Court documents obtained by SaharaReporters indicate that the charges, marked FHC/CR/99/2026, were filed in the name of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as complainant, with El-Rufai, 65, listed as the sole defendant. The Federal Government is set to arraign former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, before the Federal High Court of Nigeria sitting in Abuja, over allegations of unlawful …

A coalition of concerned Nigerians has condemned the recent allegations by the former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, regarding the alleged importation of a poisonous substance by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA). The group described the claims as reckless, misleading and capable of undermining public confidence in national security institutions. Addressing newsmen in Kaduna on Sunday, the …

Sen. Kenneth Eze (Ebonyi Central) says Nigeria lacks the infrastructure for seamless real-time electronic transmission of election results before the 2027 general polls. Speaking on Sunday in Ohigbo-Amagu, Ezza South LGA, Ebonyi, Eze addressed controversies over amendments to the Electoral Act 2022, especially collation and transmission provisions. He said demands for full real-time transmission ignored unstable electricity and limited technological …

The Senate has reeled out empirical data that guided its decision to make the electronic transmission of election results discretionary rather than mandatory in the ongoing reform of the country’s electoral governance framework. The upper chamber stated that the decision was based on the stark realities of the country and not on emotion or sentiment, after due consultation and engagement …