The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted dust haze from Friday to Sunday across the country. NiMet’s weather outlook released on Thursday in Abuja anticipated Dust haze with localizised visibility of less than or equal to 1000m over the northern states throughout. “The forecast period with chances of...
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The Labour Party (LP) in Imo has raised the alarm over alleged plan by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to hold the November 11 election in polling units with zero voter registration.la o The Imo LP Chairman, Mr Callistus Ihejiagwa, made the claim at a news briefing...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has defended a supplementary budget of N18 billion at the National Assembly, largely aimed at addressing the issue of staff welfare and allowances. The commission’s Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, according to the INEC daily bulletin on Thursday in Abuja, led a team...
Nigeria and 186 Member States of the United Nations on Thursday voted by a large margin against the United States’ economic and trade embargo against Cuba, first imposed in 1960. A total of 187 States voted for the resolution put forward each year against the embargo with only...
The Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) and StarTimes have signed a five-year broadcast rights deal worth one billion naira to bring the country’s elite league back on television. This was confirmed during the contract signing ceremony in Abuja, with officials of NPFL and Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) in...
An Oyo High Court 1 sitting in Oyo town, on Thursday, struck out the case instituted by Basorun of Oyo, High Chief Yusuf Ayoola and four others against Gov. Seyi Makinde and two others. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the striking out of the case...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Tiv Community of Nasarawa State has advised the Senior Special Assistant, SSA to Gov Abdullahi Sule, Comrade Peter Ahemba to apologize to the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN for dragging the church to dirty politics. Addressing journalists on Thursday in Lafia, Nasarawa...
By MBAFAN ADE, Abuja – The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has assured Nigerians that there is adequate supply of Naira notes in the economy. Recall that some bank customers in recent times have been complaining about scarcity of Naira notes at the counters, Automated...
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has promised to ensure timely completion of ongoing renovation of the National Mosque and the National Christian Centre, Abuja. Wike gave the assurance after he inspected the ongoing renovation of the two national monuments in Abuja on Thursday....
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa, has said the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) is ready to enforce the presidential directives to deal decisively with perpetrators of electoral violence in the country. Musa said this on Thursday in Lokoja while addressing troops of Operation Safe...
The Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum (PDP-GF) says the unity, peace and tranquility of the country transcends politics and political leaning. The forum said this in a statement by its Director-General, CID Maduabum, in Abuja on Thursday. Maduabum added that the political crisis in Rivers State was not...
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, says the FCT Administration will provide the needed infrastructure before allocating land to anyone for development. Wike stated this when the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, visited him in Abuja on Thursday....
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma has said that he does not interfere in the affairs of the labour unions in the state. Uzodinma said this while fielding questions from the State House Correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Thursday. He said that his administration accorded priority attention...
The Court of Appeal on Thursday affirmed the election of Sen. Jib of the APC as senator representing Kogi East. Isah is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Customs,. INEC had declared Isah of the All Progressives Congress APC) as the winner of the Kogi East Senatorial District election....
Rivers State Chief Judge, Justice Simeon Amadi, on Thursday, granted pardon to 53 inmates at the Port Harcourt Maximum Correctional Centre who are standing trial for various offences. Amadi said that the pardon was part of the week-long programmes put in place by the state judiciary to...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Lilypond Export Command, has between January and September 2023 facilitated the exportation of 12,438 containers with a Free On Board value of $518.69 million. The Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Ajibola Odusanya, said this in a statement on Thursday in Lagos. He also described...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu on Thursday in Abuja appealed to all candidates participating in the November 11 gubernatorial elections in Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi States, as well as the electorate to ensure free and fair elections. The President made the appeal at the...
FACT CHECK REPORT: Brekete Family’s claim about HPV vaccine’s effects on girls, fertility misleading
FACT CHECK REPORT: Brekete Family’s claim about HPV vaccine’s effects on girls, fertility misleading
The claim by the host of Brekete family radio programme, Ahmed Isah aka ‘Ordinary President’, that the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is harmful and targeted at depopulation lacks evidence and is misleading, a PRNigeria fact-check has discovered. The Ordinary President, in a video clip during a live broadcast...
The House of Representatives has rejected the N4.79bn budgetary allocation for a presidential yacht contained in the N2.176trn supplementary budget for the 2023 financial year transmitted to it on Tuesday by President Bola Tinubu. In passing the supplementary budget on Thursday, the House moved the sum proposed for...
The presidency says the yacht listed in the 2023 supplementary budget is a naval boat and not for President Bola Tinubu’s usage. The listing of the yacht in the budget which was passed on Thursday had elicited criticisms from Nigerians who faulted the government’s plan to purchase such for...