The Chairman, Lagos State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association, Dr Edamisan Temiye, says that one million Nigerians live with haemophilia, a genetic bleeding disorder arising from faulty clotting mechanism. Temiye made the statement on Tuesday i...
The Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) has been deplored to Auchi, Edo to curb the incessant bank robbery in the area. The deployment was as a result of an agreement between the banks and the authorities for the banks to open for business after a week o...
The Apapa and Tin-Can Island ports in Lagos are to receive 3,643 vehicles on board 10 ships in the next 13 days, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The “Shipping Position”, a document of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), issued in ...
The Bauchi State government says it is set to resuscitate cotton ginnery in the state to complement Federal Government's effort at reviving the nation's ailing textile industries. Dr Dauda Abdullahi, the Permanent Secretary in the state Ministr...
Cissy Houston has officially put the brakes on Rihanna playing her daughter in a future biopic. According to the National Enquirer, Rihanna is the last person that Cissy Houston would want to portray Whitney. “Over my dead body!” dec...
A powerful 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck near Chile's eastern port of Valparaiso early on Tuesday, shaking buildings as far away as the capital Santiago. But there were no reports of significant damage and the country's main copper mines were...
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has announced plans to decentralise its functions, to give more powers to its state offices for effective service delivery. Dr Christian Oboh, Managing Director of NDDC, said this on Tuesday in Port Harcour...
An Abuja High Court on Tuesday dismissed the criminal charges filed against two former staff of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) over alleged fraud. The EFCC had on Dec. 31, 2004 arraigned Sani Shaidu, Salihu Usman and Hamza Nasir over ...
The Lagos State Police command on Tuesday announced the arrest of five suspected armed robbers and the recovery of some arms and suspected stolen vehicles. The command's spokesman, SP Joseph Jaiyeoba, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos ...
The First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan, has called on the private sector to partner with government to improve the health of the less privileged in the society. Jonathan said this at a dinner for international partners, vaccine man...
Mallam Usman Sule, a one-time university undergraduate, now a commercial bus driver in Kogi, has decried the high cost of education in the country. Sule told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Tuesday that he dropped...
The Federal Republic of Nigeria has been described as a “desolate” country. The comment was made by the national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Tinubu who spoke on Mon...
Contrary to a report that a religious tension was brewing in Osun State, the state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has debunked the rumour. CAN which said there was no truth in the rumour, stressed that Osun State was not mired in...
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Coordinating Minister for the Economy, yesterday in Abuja said the growth collectible revenue estimated in 2012 budget was N9.692 trillion. Okonjo-Iweala, who gave the figure at the 2012 budget presentation organised by the Budg...
Despite the fact that $72/per barrel (pb) oil price benchmark was used for the 2012 budget, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, said that a decline in oil price to around $85 or $90 a barrel portends problem for the...