The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said that 17,053 babies were given birth to by Internally Displaced Persons in 18 locations in Borno State alone. The UN agency told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the figure represents information of babies who have been registered between 2019 to May 2021. Frantz Celestine, the […]

Debt servicing obligations gulped 97 percent of the Nigerian government’s total revenue in 2020, a report has shown. According to BudgIT, a civic-tech non-profit organisation, of the N3.42 trillion generated as revenue, Nigeria expended N3.34 trillion on debt servicing. The report said total expenditure stood at N10.01 trillion. “This means nearly all FG’s salaries, overhead […]

The death toll in last month’s collapse of a Florida apartment building has now risen to 90, officials said Sunday, with another 31 people still unaccounted for after the tragedy. Champlain Towers South, a 12-story building built in 1981 in Surfside, a town north of Miami Beach, came tumbling down on June 24, as dozens […]

Winifred Bosa The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja “to order the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) and the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC) to perform their statutory functions to review downward the remuneration and allowances of President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, […]

Winifred Bosa UNICEF has signed an agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV to supply up to 220 million doses of the J&J single-dose vaccine for all 55 Member States of the African Union (AU) by the end of 2022. Some 35 million doses are to be delivered by the end of this year. According to a press release from UNICEF […]

Winifred Bosa “On July 5th, 150 students were reportedly abducted from a school in Nigeria’s Kaduna State, marking the latest incident in an alarming spate of attacks against children and abductions, including of students, in parts of West and Central Africa.  Hence UNICEF is  deeply concerned that as in years past, non-state armed groups and parties […]

Winifred Bosa The Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, Amina J. Mohammed has described as exceptional the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria. The UN deputy scribe, who gave the accolades during a High-Level visit to the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on SDGs also noted that the […]

National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has began routine food distribution for Internally Displaced persons in IDP camps,Host communities and liberated communities in Borno state. The IDPs in Borno State, have been receiving food items provided by NEMA as support for victims of insurgency. NEMA North East zonal coordinator wagami Lydia Madu is leading the food […]

Winifred Bosa Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted a consignment of 26.150kilograms of heroin with a street value of over N6.5billion at the SAHCO shed of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos. The illicit drug according to  Femi Babafemi ,Director, Media and Advocacy NDLEA  had arrived Lagos in 25 parcels from […]