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Lagos State Government has appealed to residents to patronize alternative modes of transportation in the state following the ban on commercial motorcycles, also known as Okada, in six Local Government Areas and nine Local Council Development Areas, LGAs/LCDAs of the state.
Metro

North East group: Okada ban will make 98 million jobless

July 25, 2022
The United Nations logo is seen at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on September 24, 2019. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
Nigeria

Official: UN spends $2 million on social protection in Nigeria

July 17, 2022
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Ozonnia Ojielo of Nigeria as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Rwanda, with the host Government’s approval.
Nigeria

Nigeria’s Ozonnia Ojielo appointed UN Rwanda resident coordinator

July 13, 2022
Argentina inflation soars to highest level in years, in Buenos Aires
World

UNDP: Inflation plunged 71 million into poverty since Ukraine war

July 7, 2022
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, says Nigerians will determine who becomes their leaders in the 2023 general elections.
Sport

Mahmud Yakubu: INEC will continue to uphold choices made by Nigerians

June 28, 2022
Professor Femi Soyinka, the renowned researcher and former Provost of the College of Health Sciences of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has died at 85.
Nigeria

Wole Soyinka’s brother Femi passes on at 85

June 15, 2022
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that it will systematically embark on the commencement of physical registration of voters in its state and Local Government Area offices after consulting stakeholders and reviewing the security situation across the country.
Politics

INEC to Nigerian youths: Votes determine election winners, not social media

June 1, 2022
Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State has advised his colleagues to look for alternative sources of revenue apart from oil.
Nigeria

Katsina governor: Our people have suffered immensely from gunmen attacks

May 23, 2022
Nigeria

UNDP empowers 400 displaced farmers in Nasarawa

March 24, 2022
Nigeria

UNICEF, Katsina sign $3.5 million MoA to boost healthcare

March 18, 2022
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Nigeria

Group applauds dialogue process in conflict resolution

March 3, 2022
Nigeria

Osun partners UNDP, Norway to launch crisis response system

March 3, 2022
Nigerian singer, Yemi Alade, is among the A-list musicians across the world to perform at the ‘Global Goal- Unite For Our Future – The Concert’ fixed for Saturday.
People

Nigerian singer Yemi Alade appointed Africa’s coronavirus ambassador

March 2, 2022
President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigerians in the North-east region will, in the coming months, witness a change from the protracted insurgency to peace and development in their respective communities.
Nigeria

President Buhari: How I plan to restore peace in North-east

February 2, 2022
U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, Stephanie Sullivan, joined the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman Manu at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) on Friday to receive 1.7 million newly arrived doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines.
Africa

U.S. donates 1.7 million Pfizer coronavirus vaccines to Ghana

December 27, 2021
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