The University College Hospital (UCH) chapter of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has joined the ongoing seven-day nationwide warning strike declared by the association’s national headquarters. The strike, which began at midnight on July 29, followed the Federal Government’s failure to meet long-standing demands raised by the association. Speaking after the…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Jigawa State Command, has confirmed the death of four persons and the disappearance of five others following a canoe mishap in Zangon Maje village, Taura Local Government Area. The incident, which occurred around 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, involved a canoe transporting 17 passengers, mostly girls aged between…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has conferred national honours on all 24 players and 11 technical staff of Nigeria’s senior women’s football team, the Super Falcons, following their landmark victory at the 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in Morocco. At a special reception held at the State House in Abuja, President Tinubu awarded each…
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has rejected the membership claim of former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, and has announced his 30-year expulsion from the party. The decision was disclosed in a statement issued in Abuja by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Araba Rufus Aiyenigba, following reports submitted…
Six students of the Nigerian Law School have been abducted by gunmen suspected to be bandits in Benue State while travelling to resume academic activities at the institution’s Yola Campus in Adamawa State. The incident, reported by NewsPointNigeria, occurred on the evening of Saturday, July 26, along the volatile Wukari-Benue border axis, a route notorious…
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has confirmed that five persons lost their lives and 55 others sustained injuries following severe flooding in Yola, the Adamawa State capital. Mr. Ladan Ayuba, Head of Operations at NEMA’s Yola office, disclosed that the injured victims are currently receiving treatment at the Modibbo Adama University Teaching Hospital. The…
Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State and Chairman of the Progressives Governors’ Forum (PGF) has confirmed that consultations are ongoing to select a new National Chairman for Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Wednesday following a closed-door meeting with fellow APC governors, Uzodimma stated that the selection process was…
Nigeria’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), has relocated its upcoming National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting to the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa in Abuja, citing logistical reasons. The meeting, originally slated to hold at the party’s national secretariat on Blantyre Street, Wuse II, Abuja, will still take place on Thursday, according to…
The first lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has said that despite commendable progress in maternal testing and care, major gaps still exist in prevention and treatment of paediatric HIV in the country. Mrs Tinubu stated this on Tuesday at the National HIV Health Sector Symposium, themed: “Advancing PMTCT and Paediatric Treatment Coverage for Nigeria,” organised by…
Nigeria has revised the methodology for calculating its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), significantly increasing the size of the economy to ₦372.8 trillion in 2024, following a rebasing exercise by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The update shifts the GDP base year from 2010 to 2019, bringing the country’s national accounting system in line with…
