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Nigeria sets a new COVID-19 record on Friday, posting its highest infections of almost 2,000 new cases in a single day. Figures from the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday, January 15, 2021, showed that the nation reported 1,867 new cases. The new figure is the country’s highest number of new positive samples confirmed within a … Read more

The Management of the University of Ibadan (UI) has cancelled the institution’s 2019/2020 academic session, Naija News reports. The Senate of the institution made this known after its sitting on Thursday. The institution’s senate also approved a new academic calendar and renamed it 2020/2021. In its new resolve, the institution has cancelled admission into the school through … Read more

The Federal Ministry of Education on Thursday updated its guidelines for school reopening, suspending assembly, and visiting days in schools. Naija News reports that this was disclosed in a statement titled, ‘School resumption date of January 18, 2021 stands – Minister’, by the ministry’s Director of Press and Public Relations, Ben Bem Goong. According to the statement, … Read more

– The federal government has clarified its position regarding the ultimatum it issued to Nigerians on NIN registration – The minister of communication and digital economy, Isa Pantami, has disclosed when the ultimatum was first issued – Pantami is not pleased with the manner citizens are going about the registration The federal government has justified … Read more

President Muhammadu Buhari-led government is planning on sharing the sum of N20,000 to over 160,000 poor and vulnerable rural women to cushion the effects of COVID-19 pandemic. The development was disclosed by the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, on Wednesday. Umar-Faruk stated this at the launching of the grant, … Read more

Five Simple Steps To Check NECO 2020 Results has been shared by NewsOnline Nigeria. NewsOnline Nigeria earlier reported that results of the National Examinations Council (NECO) 2020 were released on Wednesday. NECO released the internal Senior Secondary School Examination (SSCE) results with a two per cent increase of candidates who made five credits and above in all subjects. … Read more

A High Court in the FCT has ordered a Magistrate, Omolola Akindele, to end proceedings and stay action in a criminal complaint filed by one Kenechukwu Okeke against 50 persons who supported the #EndSARS protests. Naija News reports that Justice Bello Kawu also restrained the Nigeria Police Force from arresting or taking any action against the #EndSARS activists. … Read more

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is set to introduce new technologies to improve the conduct of the elections ahead of 2023 polls. The INEC Director of Voter Education and Publicity Department (VEP), Nick Dazang, disclosed this on Tuesday in Keffi, Nasarawa State. Dazang noted that the electoral body has started reviewing its adopted technologies … Read more

– The federal government has made clarifications regarding the NIN generated through the BVN – NIMC revealed why any NIN generated by BVN alone is incomplete – The agency disclosed steps Nigerians must take to validate any BVN generated NIN The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has informed Nigerians that any National Identity Number (NIN) generated through … Read more

The overall cases of dreaded COVID-19 pandemic since its outbreak in Nigeria was confirmed to be 102,601 on Tuesday, January 12, 2021. The figures were confirmed on the official website of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC today after it reported one-thousand two-hundred and seventy new cases of the novel virus. The health agency … Read more