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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has cautioned people against relying on information from social media about the Coronavirus pandemic that cannot be trusted. In a statement by its Communication Officer, Blessing Ejiofor, it urged the people to only trust ...

Governor Udom Emmanuel has urged the United States government to reconsider its recent visa restriction on Nigerians, especially Akwa Ibom indigenes. He made the appeal yesterday while receiving the Deputy Chief of Missions of the United States Embassy, Nigeria, Kathleen ...

The Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government has constituted a committee headed by President Roch Marc Christian Kabore of Burkina Faso to review and report to it on Nigeria’s land border closure with it neighbours. Senior Special Assistant ...

No fewer than five communities in Akwa Ibom State have benefited from World Bank-assisted micro projects worth N50 million to enhance community development in the state. The Commissioner for Economic Development and Ibom Deep Seaport, Akan Okon, revealed this during ...

Beneficiaries of European Union (EU) and World Bank-assisted projects, under the supervision of Delta State Employment and Expenditure For Results (SEEFOR) at different locations in the state have commended the interventions in their communities. The impact assessment, led by National ...

No fewer than two million Nigerian children may die in the next decade if concerted efforts are not made to fight pneumonia. However, an estimated 809,000 of the deaths could be averted by significantly scaling up services to prevent and ...

Director-General of Centre for Justice on Religion and Ethnicity in Nigeria, Kallamu Dikwa, has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to expose the financiers of Boko Haram in the country before the terrorist group plunges the nation into a religious war. According ...

United Nations (UN) Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon has condemned the destruction of humanitarian ‘accommodation and logistics’ by non-state armed group at Ngala in Borno state. Terrorists have severally attacked Ngala Community, which borders Nigeria with Cameroon and recently ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has briefed British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson on major developments in Nigeria, especially the gains in different sectors of the economy and polity. The two leaders met at the United Kingdom (UK)-Africa Investment Summit 2020, in London ...

President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja today for London to participate in the inaugural UK-Africa Investment Summit holding on Monday, January 20. President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina in a statement in Abuja said the event would ...