Month: October 2026

NAFDAC Finds Excess Pesticide Residues in Some Beans Beans and agricultural chemicals illustrating NAFDAC’s warning about pesticide

Beans and agricultural chemicals illustrating NAFDAC’s warning about pesticide

NAFDAC Finds Excess Pesticide Residues in Some Beans

Oluwatobi Adu October 10, 2026

LAGOS, Nigeria – Nigeria’s food and drug regulator has raised concerns over pesticide residues exceeding permitted safety...

NAOWA Urges Military Families to Break Health Stigma NAOWA holds a breast cancer and mental health awareness programme for military families in Abuja.

NAOWA holds a breast cancer and mental health awareness programme for military families in Abuja.

NAOWA Urges Military Families to Break Health Stigma

Oluwatobi Adu October 10, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – The Nigerian Army Officers’ Wives Association (NAOWA) has urged military families to seek timely...

Tinubu: Mental Health Patients Must Help Shape Care Nigeria’s First Lady Oluremi Tinubu calls for people with lived mental health

Nigeria’s First Lady Oluremi Tinubu calls for people with lived mental health

Tinubu: Mental Health Patients Must Help Shape Care

Mirian Gom October 10, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has called for people living with mental health...

Customs Seizes N3.67bn Cannabis Products at Lagos Port Nigeria Customs Service launches One-Stop-Shop to cut cargo clearance time

Nigeria Customs Service launches One-Stop-Shop to cut cargo clearance time

Customs Seizes N3.67bn Cannabis Products at Lagos Port

Korede Abdullah October 10, 2026

LAGOS, Nigeria – The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted more than 1.2 tonnes of suspected illicit...

Nigeria Lacks Enough Crude to Supply Dangote Refinery – FG Says Minister of Finance, Taiwo Oyedele

Minister of Finance, Taiwo Oyedele

Nigeria Lacks Enough Crude to Supply Dangote Refinery – FG Says

Korede Abdullah October 10, 2026

LAGOS, Nigeria – Nigeria currently lacks sufficient uncommitted crude oil to meet the full supply requirements of...

TETFund Sets Up Innovation Hubs in 45 Nigerian Institutions ETFund's Research for Impact Initiative supports innovation and commercialisation in Nigerian tertiary institutions

ETFund's Research for Impact Initiative supports innovation and commercialisation in Nigerian tertiary institutions

TETFund Sets Up Innovation Hubs in 45 Nigerian Institutions

Hope Ajayi October 10, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) is establishing innovation hubs in 45 beneficiary tertiary...

ASUU Suspends Strike in Three Lagos Universities ASUU suspends industrial action at three Lagos State-owned universities

ASUU suspends industrial action at three Lagos State-owned universities

ASUU Suspends Strike in Three Lagos Universities

Mirian Gom October 10, 2026

LAGOS, Nigeria – Lecturers at three Lagos State-owned universities are set to return to classrooms after the...

Anambra Building Collapse Kills Mother, 14-Year-Old Daughter

Building collapse in Okpoko, Anambra State, kills a woman and her 14-year-old daughterEditorial notes before publication

Anambra Building Collapse Kills Mother, 14-Year-Old Daughter

Mirian Gom October 9, 2026

ANAMBRA, Nigeria – A mother and her 14-year-old daughter have died after a three-storey building under construction...

Nigeria Lacks Mental Health Specialists, Beds – Lagos Warns Lagos Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi

Lagos Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi

Nigeria Lacks Mental Health Specialists, Beds – Lagos Warns

Korede Abdullah October 9, 2026

LAGOS, Nigeria – Nigeria lacks sufficient mental health specialists and treatment beds to meet growing needs, the...

Cars Burn, Shops Looted as Xenophobic Violence Erupts in South Africa Burnt vehicles and damaged businesses amid xenophobic violence in South Africa

Burnt vehicles and damaged businesses amid xenophobic violence in South Africa

Cars Burn, Shops Looted as Xenophobic Violence Erupts in South Africa

Oluwatobi Adu October 9, 2026

South Africa – At least 24 vehicles were burnt in Johannesburg and Durban as xenophobic violence erupted...