The Nigerian government has suspended a controversial plan to nearly double registration fees for final-year secondary school examinations following widespread public anger. The Ministry of Education announced on Monday that it had withdrawn a directive that would have seen uniform fees...
More than 2,700 people are estimated to have died from heat-related causes during intense heatwaves that hit England and Wales in May and June, a study has found. The research, jointly conducted by experts from Imperial College London, the Met Office, and the London School of Hygiene and...
The director-general of a controversial, non-existent government agency is set to appear before the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday, accused of running a sprawling administrative fraud. Adeniyi Adeyemi, the head of the so-called Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council...
LOKOJA — Nigeria’s First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, has launched a ₦100m ($61,000) empowerment scheme aimed at supporting 2,000 small-scale traders in the central state of Kogi. The initiative, part of the government’s broader “Renewed Hope” social investment agenda...
An operation by Nigerian troops has uncovered evidence that foreign fighters, including a Palestinian trainer and a Moroccan medical doctor, are actively supporting Islamist militants in the country’s north-east. The discoveries were made after soldiers killed an Islamic State West...
