The interim President of Guinea Bissau, Raimundo Pereira and Prime Minister Carlos Gomes were released by the country’s military junta and flown to Abidjan on Friday. The West Africa correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that ...
No fewer than 18 people were injured on Saturday afternoon when a commercial bus lost control and crashed into a pole at the Abuja city gate, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The bus, an 18-seater with registrati...
Dr Ore Falomo, the Chairman, Lagos State Medical Advisory Committee, has warned doctors in the state who are currently on strike that their action is ``a flagrant abuse of their professional calling’’. He told journalists in Lagos on Friday...
Six footballers were on Saturday arrested by the police for failing to observe the Environmental Sanitation stipulated by the Lagos State Government. The exercise is observed on the last Saturday of every month and it begins from 7 a.m. ...
A Consultant Gyneacologist, Dr Peter Adefuye, has called on the Federal Government to come up with an effective cancer control policy that will cater for cancer patients in Nigeria. He made the call at the beginning of the Cancer Awareness Campaign, or...
Prof. Emmanuel Ezeani of University of Nigeria, Nsukka, has urged the Federal Government to reposition the country’s local government councils to fast-track development at the grassroots level. Ezeani made the call on Friday in Ns...
Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo of GombeState has assured the GombeStateUniversity community of adequate security. Dankwambo gave the assurance on Friday in Gombe, while reacting to Thursday's bomb blast at the SenateBuilding of the university. He...
NAFDAC on Friday warned the public of fake methylated spirits in the market, as it paraded two suspects who were allegedly caught with N72,000 worth of the product in Onitsha. Mr Benson Kine, a Deputy Director in NAFDAC, told journalists ...
The Kaduna State Government has advised residents to report any incidentof suspected Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) in the state. The government gave the advice when it announced a five-point prevention strategy against the outbreak of t...
President Goodluck Jonathan is yet to complete one year in office of the four-year mandate given to him in 2011. However, tension is already amounting over whether he is eligible to contest in 2015 or whether power would return to the geo-political Nor...
Governor Ibrahim Shehu Shema of Katsina, in this interview with Muazu Elazeh, speaks on what his administration is doing to ensure relative peace in the state and steps he has taken to move the state forward. Can you tell us some of the programmes you ...
Acting inspector-general of police, Muhammed Dikko Abubakar, has urged the press to avoid giving prominence to criminals in the interest of national security. Abubakar, who made the call yesterday during a re-evaluation visit to the Rivers State police...
Reporters Without Borders {RSF}, a France-based media body has said that it was dismayed by Thursday’s bombings targeting ThisDay, The Sun and The Moment newspapers in Abuja and the northern city of Kaduna and called on the Nigerian authorities t...
The Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, has spoken of the need for agriculture to form the backbone of the nation’s economy as was the case before the discovery of oil in Nigeria. The royal father spoke when he received a delegation on the Fadama ...
History was made yesterday in Abuja as Nigerian Air Force produced the first female military pilot in the sub-region, when Flying Officer Blessing Liman and 29 others joined the list of military officers at a well attended ceremony hosted by the Chief ...