London, May 10, 2021 (AltAfrica)-A coalition of over 120 civil society organisations and activists has called on Nigerians to join series of mass actions in different parts of Nigeria on May 26 to register their displeasure about the worsening state of insecurity in the country. The groups said the pampering of terrorists by the Buhari-led ...

London, April 22, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Nigeria’s Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Magashi has lamented the state of insecurity in the country, saying that the nation is bleeding. Major-General Magashi made this known on Thursday at the continuation of the special weekly ministerial briefing in Abuja. He said that the Federal Government of Nigeria has taken ...

London, April 18, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Nigeria will join the digital broadcasting revolution from the end of this month, April 29 to August 2021 While the Digital Switchover (DSO) from analogue to digital in Lagos, Kano, and three other states between April and August, the exercise would kick off in the remaining states thereafter. The Minister of ...

London, April 17, 2021(AltAfrica)-Ridwan Olaleye Nigeria’s rising karate champion has done it again. Doing what he knows best-winning gold medals. His latest acquisition-a gold medal at the recently concluded 2020 National Sports Festi­val (NSF) in Delta state, Nigeria Rilwan Adisa Olaleye, Mr Karate as he’s fondly called defeated Ogene Bobby in his last group game ...

London, April 6, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Nigeria has names a new head of the police force. He is Usman Alkali Baba, appointed as acting the inspector general of the Nigerian police. Usman Alkali Baba was a Deputy Inspector General (DIG) before his promotion, which takes with immediate effect. Minister of Police Affairs Maigari Dingyadi made the disclosure ...

London, March 5, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Nigeria will commence the vaccination against COVID-19 on Friday, (Today) the Federal Government said-two days after it received the first batch of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines. The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal Shuaib, announced this on Thursday at a presidential briefing held at the ...

London, Feb. 27, 2021 (AltAfrica)- Nigerian government has has unveiled a Rabbit Waste Organic Fertilizer harvested from rabbits in four pilot states in the country. At the unveiling in Owerri, South East Nigeria, the Executive Secretary National Agricultural land development Authority, NALDA Prince Paul Ikonne whose piloted the project urged challenged Nigerian youths to take ...

London, Feb. 23, 2021 (AltAfrica)-The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC has rescued a teenage girl identified as Ada, who was chained by the neck, limbs and locked up by her parents at Umuokoro Obinkita Arochukwu Local Government Area of Abia state, South East Nigeria NSCDC Abia command said the successful operation followed a ...

London, Feb. 9, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Nigeria has decided to stick with AstraZeneca vaccine despite its limited protection against new South African The head of the country’s primary healthcare agency said on Monday that since Nigeria has not yet found the South African variant of Covid-19 in its population, it has decided to continue with plans to ...

London, Jan. 29, 2021 (AltAfrica)-In Nigerian state of Zamfara, seven bandits have willingly repented and surrendered fourteen AK47 rifles and ammunitions to the state government. The repentant bandits according to the state commissioner of security and home affairs Abubakar Muhammad Dauran migrated from neighboring states and settled in Zamfara for some years. READ ALSO: AFTER ...