Nigeria: UNAIDS to Reduce Aids-Related Deaths to 250,000 By 2025 - Report

UNAIDS noted that to achieve the Global AIDs Strategy 2021-2026 there must be a change in public health approach for drug users. Read more »

Nigeria: Military Denies Responsibility for Retaliatory Attack On Delta Community

Suspected residents of Okuama community on Thursday ambushed and murdered the soldiers including four officers. Read more »

Nigeria: $300m Malaria Fund Probe - Nigerian Lawmakers Say Health Ministry Officials Are Lobbying Them, Summon Minister

"Have they used the money? If they have not used the money, where is the money? It is a matter of simple explanation. But they have been running away, calling all manner of people… Read more »

Nigeria: N30trn Ways and Means Probe - How Emefiele Signed Billions of Naira in 13 Places - Panel

"The Committee of Governors ought to be the signatory to the ways and means account, but in the document we have here, the governor (Emefiele) signed billions of naira in about 13… Read more »

Nigeria: Senate Probes Killing of Soldiers in Delta, Rejects One-Minute Silence for Deceased

The Committees on Defence, Army, Air Force and Navy are to conduct the investigation and report to the upper legislative chamber. Read more »

Nigeria: I'll End Insecurity in South-East Within Two Minutes If I'm Released - Nnamdi Kanu

The IPOB leader spoke to reporters on Tuesday when he appeared at the Federal High Abuja in continuation of his trial. Read more »

Nigeria: Ace Nollywood Producer Andy Best Dies

The filmmaker co-produced and marketed the Nollywood classic Living in Bondage. Read more »

Nigeria: Dangote Begins Distribution of N13 Billion Rice to Vulnerable Nigerians

The Aliko Dangote Foundation is also distributing meals to at least 10,000 Muslims observing the Ramadan fast in Kano State. Read more »

Nigeria: Withheld Salaries - SSANU, NASU Strike Disrupts Activities Across Nigerian Universities As NLC Intervenes

The situation almost degenerated into an open conflict at the University of Jos, where the Vice-Chancellor, Tanko Ishaya, a Professor, was spotted in a video trying to force open… Read more »

Nigeria: Nigerian Govt Appeals to SSANU and NASU to Call Off Warning Strike

The Joint Action Committee of SSANU and NASU had directed its members to embark on a seven-day warning strike over the non-payment of four months of withheld salaries. Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria's Natep Signs MOU With Lab Four to Create 50,000 Jobs

Industry Minister, Doris Uzoka-Anite, says the pact between NATEP is planned to ultimately yield one million jobs. Read more »

Nigeria: African Games - Nigeria's Mixed-Relay Team Sets New Record

Team Nigeria picked three gold medals on Tuesday in athletics and made a couple of other podium finishes Read more »

Ghana/Nigeria: African Games - Nigeria to Battle Ghana in Women's Football Final

The Falconets have scored eight goals without conceding en route to a second consecutive African Games final Read more »

Nigeria: Kaduna Community Under Siege As Bandits Kidnap Over 100 Residents

Residents said the latest abduction happened around 10 p.m. on Sunday with gunmen operating without restraint. Read more »

Nigeria: 183 Ex-Niger Delta Militants Sue Nigerian Govt, Presidential Amnesty Programme

The 183 ex-Niger Delta militants are challenging the stoppage of their monthly stipends the Nigerian government was paying them under the presidential amnesty scheme. Read more »

Nigeria: Nigerian Army Releases Names, Photos of Soldiers Killed in Delta

Military authorities announced the killing of the soldiers on Saturday. Read more »

Nigeria: 'Poor People Don't Eat Eggs,' Nigerian Governor Rejects Inclusion of Eggs in Subsidised Food Items

Subsidised food items will be sold to vulnerable persons already enlisted in the state's social register. Read more »

Nigeria: An Emergency Call to End Perennial Power Blackouts

"The time for the review of contracts of Nigerian DisCos and GenCos is due." Read more »

Nigeria: Tinubu Appoints New Leadership of Almajiri Education Commission

President Tinubu expects that the new appointees will bring their vast experience into the management of the commission. Read more »

Nigeria: Give Me Power to Spend Security Votes Like Governors, Wike Lobbies Lawmakers

Anti-corruption advocates have long argued that the security vote has become a conduit for siphoning. Read more »

Nigeria: Ownership of Oil Palm Giant Presco Returns to Nigeria After 33-Year Belgian Control

Presco is the country's biggest fully integrated agro-industrial palm processor, according to GCR Ratings. Read more »

Nigeria: Bandits Release Seven Victims Kidnapped in Kaduna

Residents of the area told PREMIUM TIMES that the gunmen on Monday afternoon released seven captives. Read more »

Nigeria: Alleged Terrorism Financing - Court Orders Binance to Release Data to EFCC

The interim order was granted to enable the anti-graft agency unravel the alleged money laundering and terrorism financing on Binance. Read more »

Nigeria: Setting Ablaze of Vigilante Operative, Abduction of Hospital Officials, Other Top Stories From South-East

This is a review of top events which occurred in Nigeria's south-east within the past week. Read more »

Nigeria: Nigerian Govt Flags Off N40 Billion Mass Metering Project Across Army Formations

Mr Adelabu explained that for the current exercise, the sum of N12.7 billion has been released out of a total of N40 billion for the mass metering project. Read more »