Anietie Udobit, AbujaThe Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has instructed hospitals nationwide to enhance their Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) measures, in response to rising global concerns over Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV).The directive aims to safeguard public health amid increased HMPV activity reported in countries such as
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Anietie Udobit, AbujaThe National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has sealed off a Chinese supermarket in Abuja for allegedly selling expired products and items labelled exclusively in Chinese without the required English translations, as mandated by NAFDAC regulations.NAFDAC, in a statement, said that the supermarket, located
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Okoroafor C., MaiduguriBorno State Executive Council has approved the renaming of Borno State University to Kashim Ibrahim University in honour of the first governor of northern Nigeria.This decision was reached during the first State Executive Council meeting of 2025, chaired by Governor Babagana Umara Zulum. The meeting, which ended Monday
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After 13 years without an end-of-year celebration due to insecurity, the Lassa community in the Askira local government area of Borno State welcomed the new year with a grand event.For over a decade, Christians and Muslims in Lassa had not united for celebrations as they once did before the onset
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Anietie Udobit, AbujaThe Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has vowed that those arrested by the security agencies for alleged involvement in the removal of sewage manhole covers on highways in Abuja will be made to face the full wrath of the law so as to serve
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Anietie Udobit, AbujaThe House of Representatives will begin the 2025 budget defence session with Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) today (Tuesday) January 7, 2025.According to the Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, Abubakar Bichi, the harmonisation of reports from the exercise will take place on Wednesday, January 22, 2025. The
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The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has arrested the proprietor of Tsangagyar Sani Uthman Islamiyya School in Kuchibuyi Village, Bwari Area Council, Adamu Ashimu, following an Improvised Explosive Device explosion that occurred at the school premises on Monday.The incident, which took place around 11 am, involved an IED allegedly brought
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President Bola Tinubu has approved $20,000 foreign medical treatment, bullet-proof SUVs and cooks, among other benefits, as a retirement package for service chiefs and generals, Punch reports.According to the Harmonised Terms and Conditions of Service for Officers and Enlisted Personnel in the Nigerian Armed Forces, signed by President Bola Tinubu
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Anietie Udobit, AbujaPresident Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday, January 6, left for Accra, the capital of the Republic of Ghana, to attend the inauguration of President-elect John Dramani Mahama on January 7.Mahama, who served as the 12th president of Ghana between 2011 and 2017, was reelected in December 2024. He
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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the group chief executive officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, to explain how the funds budgeted for the repairs of the Nigerian refineries were spent.SERAP is specifically asking the organisation to account for the whereabouts
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