11,000 new infections in one week New variants not cause of rising cases- Experts COVID-19 cases and deaths have continued to increase across the country since the beginning of the year, Daily Trust investigations have shown. Data obtained from the Nigeria Centre…
Chief Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, is a different person to different people. To many, he is a thug. Igboho is a traditionalist to some and a Christian to others. Read more:
Why is insecurity in the North-West getting out of hand by the day? What purpose do joint security operations in the North West serve? Endless, daily news of banditry, kidnapping and illegal tax collection from innocent villagers raise these questions.…
For eight years, Mu’azu Alhaji Misiya worked in the comfort of a bank. But in 2014, to save his native Bama and his state, he dropped his pen and picked up arm to help hunt down insurgents. Read more:
Dan Shayi is a community in Rimin Gado Local Government Area of Kano State, some 40 kilometers away from the state capital. From the bad access roads to a lone health facility built some two years ago with only one…
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the education sector has been one of the worst hits with 1.9 billion children globally unable to attend school. Amidst the pandemics, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, shut universities in the…
The total budgetary allocation to the agricultural sector, which includes the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and its 43 agencies, is about N280.415 billion. Read more :
Rivers, Zamfara, Bayelsa and Imo states did not get a kobo from the N123.348 billion grant the federal government shared to states because they failed a transparency test, which seeks to encourage those in positions of authority to be accountable.…
The Federal Government has allocated N5.84 billion in the 2021 budget to key agencies saddled with pharmaceutical research and vaccine development, in spite of the global rush for home-grown vaccines, Daily Trust findings show. The agencies are the Nigerian Institute of…
The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, on Monday, raised the alarm that Nigeria had reached a critical level where hospital capacity could no longer cope with more serious COVID-19 cases. According to him, health workers may…
