OVER 15,000 Nigerian nurses have obtained licences to practise in the UK within the five year period spanning from March 2017 to March 2021 making Nigeria the largest source of foreign nurses in the country after the Philippines and India.
According to a recent report just published by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)...
HUNDREDS of Muslims joined their Christian brethren in Kaduna for Christmas church services as part of a communal programme aimed at promoting peace and religious tolerance across northern Nigeria.
More than any other state in Nigeria, Kaduna is split 50:50 between Muslims and Christians but of late, has been the scene of...
NIGERIA'S Super Eagles may not be participating in the African Nations Cup come January after all as signs emerged yesterday that the Confederation of African Football (Caf) may call off the tournament in response to the renewed threat from Covid-19.
Already postponed twice, the 33rd Nations Cup was slated for next month in...
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Every one of Nigeria’s 774 local government areas must have at least one industrial estate. Failure to establish one within one year of assuming office will make a local government chairman liable to face criminal, treason and economic sabotage charges
No licences will be issued to any faith house to open a...
NIGERIANS resident in the UK are now free to return to the country and isolate for 10 days in their homes after the British government scrapped its controversial red list scheme which singled out 11 African countries for travel restrictions.
This month, Canada, the UK and Saudi Arabia all introduced severe travel...
STRINGENT travel restrictions imposed on Nigerians visiting the UK as a result of the coronavirus pandemic could be lifted this week as the British government is planning to scrap its controversial red list with a less Draconian measure involving resting.
Last weekend, the British government placed Nigeria on its red list of...
NIGERIA is to introduce retaliatory travel bans on several countries as from tomorrow Tuesday December 14 in response to them restricting the entry of Nigerians under the guise of controlling the coronavirus pandemic by banning their airlines from landing.
Earlier this month, Canada, the UK and Saudi Arabia all introduced...
REDEEMED Christian Church of God (RCCG) general overseer Pastor Enoch Adeboye has hit out at industrialised nations for inferring that Africans will die en mass from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Over the last week, the debate around the coronavirus pandemic has become charged as several Western nations like Canada and the UK have...
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If Nigeria had offered Pfizer and AstraZeneca land to build a factory that will produce 100m doses of a coronavirus vaccine annually
In conjunction with Air Peace, Nigeria offered to distribute Covid-19 vaccines across the African continent
Nigeria’s federal government took out a stake in a joint venture between...
NIGERIAN players Kelechi Iheanacho and Ademola Lookman have been dropped from Leicester City's squad that has flown out to Italy for today's Europa League game against Napoli due to a Covid-19 scare.
Leicester City has had seven of its players affected by the virus and as a result has had to leave them out of the trip. Apart...
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