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Greece has donated about one million doses of the Johnson and Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine to Nigeria, as the Federal Government moves to ensure more citizens are vaccinated against the virus. A delegation from the European nation, led by its Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikolaos Dendias, announced the donation, yesterday, in Abuja. Dendias made the announcement during a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama and other Nigerian government officials. He said Nigeria and Greece have enjoyed a favourable bond over the years, adding that his country was willing to broaden the ties. The Greek minister explained that…

• Tinubu: I’ve informed Buhari of my lifelong ambition to be president • He has what it takes to be president, says YCE Secretary-General • Coalition of 57 youth groups endorses Osinbajo as Buhari’s successor • Only PDP can rescue Nigeria, says Diri, Wike • Why PDP must not zone Nigeria’s presidency to the South – Kwankwaso After months of speculation, the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday, formally declared his intention to run for the country’s number one office in 2023, confirming The Guardian’s exclusive report that he has informed President Muhammadu Buhari…

The Kaduna State Ministry of Education has directed public schools in the state to migrate to a four-day working week introduced by the state government, as the schools reopened on Monday for the 2021/2022 second academic session. The Commissioner for Education, Halima Lawal, who gave the directive in a statement in Kaduna, also called on administrators and proprietors of public and private schools to sustain school-based security committees set up last term. The state government, had in December 1, 2021, commenced the transition to a four-day working week for its workers. The government had explained that the introduction of the…

National Assembly workers, operating under the aegis of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN), on Monday, embarked on a protest over the non-implementation of their minimum wage and other unpaid allowances. The aggrieved workers, who occupied the National Assembly complex chanting songs of solidarity with various placards, condemned the action of the Chairman of the National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) for breaching the memorandum of understanding (MoU) entered into in 2021. Some of the inscriptions read: “Pay us Our MOU” and “No Circular Supercedes an Act of National Assembly”, among others. A copy of the resolution to embark on the…

Former Lagos State governor and a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on Monday declared his intention to contest the office of the president in the 2023 election. “I’ve informed the President of my ambition,” Tinubu told newsmen after meeting Buhari on Monday in Abuja. “It’s been my life-long ambition. There’s nowhere in the world where a kingmaker cannot himself be king.” Speaking with newsmen after he emerged from a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Tinubu said he plans to actualise his ambition under the platform of the ruling…

Mali is facing increasing isolation after the West African bloc ECOWAS imposed new sanctions, including border closures, a trade embargo and a freeze on state assets, over delays in restoring civilian rule. Experts argue the measures may inflict significant damage to the Sahel state, which is already mired in poverty and fighting a jihadist insurgency. What are the sanctions? On Sunday, the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) slapped economic and diplomatic sanctions on Mali for its ruling military’s failure to organise swift elections. Mali’s army initially promised to stage elections in February 2022, after staging a coup…

Ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Group D opener between Nigeria and Egypt, Mohamed Salah says the Pharaohs are ready to clip the wings of the Super Eagles. The Liverpool goal poacher told TheCable that there is pressure on the Egyptian team to win the tournament. The seven-time AFCON winners are gearing up to face the Nigerian side at Roumde Adjia Stadium in Garoua on Tuesday. When asked for his take on Ahmed Musa’s comment on Eagles having more dangerous players than him, Salah said: “I don’t think there is a need to reply to him because he is someone…

*Zulum always offers logistics support without prompting, Says GOC A former vice president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has decried the continued killings in the northwest zone, particularly the recent attack in Zamfara State, which left over 200 dead, and therefore appealed to the federal government to ramp up security in the zone to stem further waste of lives. In the same vein, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, has also described the recent killings in Zamfara by bandits as nothing short…

• Army kills three terrorists in Borno as govs applaud the use of Tucano jets • Minister decries killing of 200 in Zamfara Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) claims that a whopping $15 billion (over N6.1tr) has been squandered through fraudulent arms procurement deals in the last 20 years. According to its report, released yesterday, the political and security elite monetised the conflicts and the resultant humanitarian crises. CDD was established in the United Kingdom in 1997 and registered in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1999 to promote the values of democracy, peace and human rights in Africa. The report said successive…

World number one Novak Djokovic won a stunning victory Monday over the Australian government, overturning the cancellation of his visa on Covid-19 health grounds, and ending his detention. It was an extraordinary setback for the government, which has imposed strict restrictions on its borders for the past two years to stop the spread of the coronavirus. In an emergency online court hearing, the judge ordered that the decision to cancel Djokovic’s visa “be quashed”. The judge ordered that the unvaccinated tennis superstar “be released immediately and forthwith from immigration detention”. “Such release must occur no later than 30 minutes after…