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Nigerian health bosses hope to vaccinate 70% of the population by the end of next year

NIGERIA'S National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) has set itself an ambitious target of vaccinating 40% of the country's  200m people before the end of 2021 and as many as 70% by the end of 2022.

 

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World Bank report reveals that moving goods within Nigeria is 5.3% higher than in the US

WORLD Bank officials have lamented the fact that it costs more to move goods locally within Nigerian than to ship them around the US  as local shipment costs are some 5.3 times higher than they are in America.

 

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Nigeria leads Ecowas to impose fresh sanctions on Guinea and Mali for truncating democracy

NIGERIA has got the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) to impose fresh sanctions against Guinea and  to maintain existing once against Mali over the decisions of their militaries to overthrow democratically-elected governments.

 

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Lamido Sanusi enrols as a PhD student of Islamic law at the University of London

FORMER Emir of Kano and one time Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Alhaji Lamido Sanusi has returned to the classroom enrolling as a doctoral candidate in Islamic Law at the University of London in the United Kingdom.

 

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Super Eagles goalkeeper Maduka Okoye becomes the latest Nigerian to sign up for Watford

SUPER Eagles goalkeeper Maduka Okoye is to become the next Nigerian international to feature in the English Premier League after Watford announced that it has reached an agreement with his Dutch club to purchase him during the January transfer window.

 

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Nigerians seeking admission under EU's Erasmus+ scholarship programme urged to apply online

NIGERIAN students seeking admission into European institutions of higher learning under the Erasmus+ scholarship programme van now apply online via the European Union's (EU).

 

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Buhari urged to sign unexplained wealth order into law to strengthen his fight against corruption

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to prevail on the National Assembly to pass the Proceeds of Crime Bill that will include an unexplained wealth order forcing the well off to account for where they got their money from.

 

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Former Pension Reform Task Team boss Abdulrasheed Maina sentenced to eight years in jail

FORMER Pension Reform Task Team chairman Abdulrasheed Maina has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment by an Abuja high court after being found guilty of several counts of corruption and money laundering.

 

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Health minister says it will take Nigeria about 120 years to acquire the necessary number of doctors

NIGERIA'S education  minister Mallam Adamu Adamu  has declared that it would take the country about 120 years to have the necessary number of medical doctors required to get the health sector functioning at full capacity.

 

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