Nigeria will receive 10 million doses of coronavirus vaccine in March, Health Minister Osagie Ehanire said in a statement late Thursday. The vaccines add to 100,000 expected doses of Pfizer vaccine, he said. The statement did not specify which type of vaccine would be used for the 10 million doses. …

The Senate of the Lagos State University has appointed Oyedamola Oke as the acting vice-chancellor of the institution. He was appointed at the emergency senate meeting held on Monday. Oke succeeds Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun whose five-year tenure ended on January 11, 2021. LASU’s Head of Centre for Information, Press and …

America’s Vice President Mike Pence will attend the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, a source said on Sunday. It was previously reported that Pence was planning to attend the inauguration, but was waiting on an invitation. Word of Pence’s intention to watch President-elect Joe Biden take his oath of office …

Nigeria may spend around $576 million to procure COVID-19 vaccine, it was gathered at the weekend. The government plans to immunise 70 per cent of Nigerians who are at risk of the virus, Director of National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHDA) Dr. Faisal Shuaib said. According to him, free vaccine …

Democrat Raphael Warnock ousted an incumbent Republican Wednesday in the first of two critical runoff elections in Georgia that will decide control of the US Senate at the outset of Joe Biden’s presidency, networks projected. Warnock, a Black pastor with deep roots in Georgia, narrowly ousted his rival Senator Kelly …

The Nigerian Defence Academy has announced that forms for entry into 73 Regular Course are not yet on sale. The Academy through the Public Relations Officer, Abubakar Abdullahi, said any information circulating on the social media purporting the sale of the forms is false and has no link with the …

An expert mission to China to find the origins of the coronavirus pandemic stumbled before it even began, with the head of the World Health Organisation complaining that Beijing was blocking the team from entering the country. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was “very disappointed” with the last-minute …

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on Monday, insists that the Federal Government has no plan to impose a fresh lockdown on Nigeria as the country battles the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Mohammed, who spoke at a conference in Lagos, however, appealed to Nigerians to adhere …

A Magistrate’s Court sitting in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, on Monday, ordered the remand of Sahara Reporters Publisher, Omoyele Sowore, and four other activists in Kuje Correctional Centre pending the hearing of their bail applications. Their formal bail applications would be heard on Tuesday, January 5, 2020. The NEWS MEN had …

The lifeless body of an 18-year-old girl was at the weekend, found in a popular hotel in Owa Community, Ika North LGA Delta State. It was learnt the victim in the company of two suspected internet fraudsters lodged into a hotel along Efeizomor road. It was learnt that the alleged …