The National Bureau of Statistics has released a report that shows Nigeria’s internet users grew to 154.8 million in the Fourth Quarter of 2022. According to the report, the increase represented 9.07 percent from 141,971,560 in Q4 of 2021. The latest data also said the number of active voice subscribers in Q4 2022 rose to “222,571,568 from the 195,463,898 reported in Q4 2021, indicating a growth rate of 13.87 percent.” According to the agency, Lagos...

No fewer than 600,000 children Are Yet To Be Immunized Against Childhood Killer Diseases In  Kano, Katsina and Jigawa States. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Kano Field Office, Rahama Farah disclosed this Thursday at a media briefing on the UNICEF State of the World Children’s (SOWC) 2023: Immunization and Zero Dose situation in Kano Field Office states. The UNICEF Chief said Kano had the highest number with over 300,000 children of the figure (55%)....

The Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), Mr. Abubakar Umar, has disclosed that there are more than 3,298 inmates across the custodial centers in Nigeria who are on death row. Umar who made this known on Wednesday in Abuja, explained that the NCoS Act 2019 which made the Prisons Correctional Centres, the term ‘condemned criminal’ was abrogated, noted that it is stigmatizing He stated that many of the IDRs committed capital offenses...

Anambra State Governor Prof. Chukwuma Soludo says he has approved the sum of two million naira for the couple who gave birth to a set of quintuplets in Awka. This was made known through the Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare in her office in Awka. Speaking on the support by the state government, Hon Ify Obinabo noted that the support came after the couple Mr Tochukwu, an Onitsha-based businessman and his wife Mrs Chidinma...