How state creation pushed Nigeria behind Indonesia, Malaysia, Brazil -Ndoma-Egba
Former Senate Majority Leader Victor Ndoma-Egba has blamed Nigeria's underdevelopment on breaking down the nation's former three regions into 36 states.
He said other nations...
Nigeria gets lowest education budget size in six years, months after president’s promise to double funding
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has reneged on his promise to raise Federal Government's budget for education by 50 per cent, effective from 2022.
The education sector...
Salaries, costs of running offices gulp 73% of Nigeria’s 2022 health budget
PAYMENT of workers' salaries, training of staff, cost of running offices and related matters will consume 73 per cent of the budget proposed for...
Handwashing: How Nigeria squandered success before COVID-19 struck – UNICEF
NIGERIA blew away a chance to make at least 30 per cent of its citizens have access to handwashing facilities in 2019, months before...
Buhari more popular than Awolowo, Azikiwe, Aminu Kano, others – Adesina
THE Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity Femi Adesina has said that the president is the most popular leader in...
Nigeria begins enforcement of compulsory COVID-19 vaccine for workers on December 1
THE Nigerian government will begin the enforcement of compulsory COVID-19 vaccination for all its employees effective December 1.
Consequently, all workers are to show evidence...
Plight of Abuja residents living with polio
ADAMU Musa, 35, and Maimunat, 30, are among the scores of couples living with disabilities at the Abuja Disabled Colony. They are polio survivors.
Many of the...
Africa records less than five per cent of global COVID-19 deaths
NEARLY two years after its emergence and eventual declaration as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), Africa's fatalities from COVID-19 have been...
WHO approves malaria vaccine for children
THE World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the administration of RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine on children in sub-Saharan Africa.
The vaccine acts against P. falciparum, the...
In two years, Nigeria lost nearly 9,000 doctors to UK, others
NIGERIA lost about 9,000 of its doctors to the United Kingdom, Canada and other countries between 2016 and 2018, the ICIR has found.
The loss...
