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FG Hikes Driving Licence Rate By 50%
The Joint Tax Board has announced the implementation of over 50% raise on the rates for vehicle number plates and driving licences across the country. Nigerians will now pay N18,750 for standard private and commercial number plates against the old rate of N12,500. Fancy number plate previously N80,000 is now N200,000; motorcycle number plate is…
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Ivory Coast Records First Case Of Ebola In 25 Years
Health Minister, Pierre N’Gou Dimba, has announced the country first Ebola case in 25 years. Dimba publicly shared that officials confirmed the case after testing samples from an 18-year-old female who travelled from neighbouring Guinea. “This is an isolated and imported case,” he said, adding that the patient was currently being treated in intensive care…
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22 Suspected Arsonists Arrested Over Deadly Fires In Algeria
The East African country has arrested 22 people suspected of being behind the most devastating wildfires in the country’s history that killed 69 people, injured over 1000 and displaced 600. Forest fires have hit mountainous areas in northern Algeria since Monday, mainly in Tizi Ouzou of the Kabylie region east of the country’s capital, Algiers. Algeria’s President,…
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Guinea Confirms First Case Of Deadly Marburg Virus
The World Health Organization has reported the first case of Marburg virus disease in the West African country, Guinea. Marburg disease is closely related to Ebola and, like COVID-19, is passed from animal hosts to humans. The virus, which is carried by bats and has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent, was found…
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600 Families Displaced By Wildfires In Algeria
At least 600 families have lost their homes to wildfires near Algeria’s capital, according to a representative of the Algerian Red Crescent. Mountain forests and villages of Tizi-Ouzou, capital of Kabyle, has been in the grip of ravaging wildfires since Monday. The outbreak has claimed not less than 69 lives — 41 civilians and 28…
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Shell To Pay N45 Billion In Compensation To Ogoni Communities
British-Dutch multinational oil and gas company, Royal Dutch Shell plc, has resolved to pay N45 Billion in settlement to the Ogoni people: marking an end to the 31-year long battle between the parties. The agreement was reached at the order of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday. Justice Ahmed Mohammed held that the…
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Nigeria Loses 4528 Doctors To The UK As Health Sector Declines
As Nigeria’s health sector barely struggles to stay afloat, new reports have revealed that the country has lost over 4500 medical professionals to the UK in 6 years. 4,528 Nigerian medical doctors trained in the country have migrated to the United Kingdom to practise their craft as the UK continues to improve its immigration process…
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Special Report: Is Your Bank Defrauding You?
The Central Bank Of Nigeria recently disclosed it had so far recovered N89.2 billion excess and illegal charges slammed on customers by banks in Nigeria following several reports from aggrieved customers. After the creation of the Consumer Protection Department in 2012, the Director for the unit revealed that between 2010 and 2014, CBN refunded N14.69…
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Nigeria’s Gas Flare Falls By 0.33% In Q1 2021
Gas flare in Nigeria’s oil fields fell by 0.33 per cent to 45.33 billion cubic feet BCF, in the first quarter of 2021 compared to 45.48BCF of gas flared in the fourth quarter of last year, according to the latest data from the oil and gas industry. Data also showed that on a year-on-year basis,…
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FG Suspends Roll Out Of New Covid-19 Vaccines
The Federal government has postponed the rollout of COVID-19 Moderna vaccine doses received from the American government, according to a statement by The Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 (PSC). In May, the US pledged to share 80 million vaccines with countries around the world to aid the fight against coronavirus. Nigeria received 4 million doses…