Doctors at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) have performed a total knee replacement surgery also known as artificial knee joint surgery. The procedure is a treatment for arthritis. Prof. Mike Ibadin, the UBTH Chief medical Director, tol...
Dr Dalhatu, Tafida, Nigerian High Commissioner to UK on Thursday said it was unacceptable that the Nigeria spends more than 10 billion dollars annually on food importation. Tafida, who made the remarks at the annual briefing of the Business Council for...
President Goodluck Jonathan has dispelled reports in the media alleging his involvement in a bribery scandal involving Chairman of House of Representatives' fuel subsidy probe ad-hoc committee chairman, Farouk Lawan and a petroleum marketing firm, ...
Libya's Supreme Court scrapped a new law that criminalised the glorification of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi or his supporters on Thursday after opponents argued it violated freedom of expression. A lawyer who appealed against the measure said the...
The EFCC told an Abuja High Court on Thursday that it had again failed in its bid to re-arrest Mrs Dora Gilmaska, a Polish suspect, in a fraud case. Gilmaska has jumped the administrative bail which the commission granted her in September 2011. An admi...
The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, said the federal government was doing its best to improve social protection of its citizens in line with the International Labour Convention (ILC). The Minister said this in abninte...
The National Blood Transfusion Centre (NBTC) in Enugu has blamed religious and cultural inhibitions for the low rate of blood donation in the South East zone. The Coordinator of the centre, Dr Michael Chukwu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in En...
A total of 110,000 undecided cases are before the Supreme Court and other lower courts across the nation, Justice Umaru Eri, the Administrator of the National Judiciary Institute (NJI), said on Thursday. He made the statement in Katsina at the commissi...
The clash between two factions of a youth group on the Bukuru road in Jos on Wednesday left five people seriously injured, the military Special Task Force (STF), has said. The STF Spokesman, Capt. Salisu Mustapha, told newsmen on Thursday in Jos that t...
Like it or not, our relationship with our mother will have a lifelong influence on our personality, behaviour and self-esteem. If we’re lucky, that legacy will be an overwhelmingly positive one. But what happens when you are raised by a ‘di...
Sleeping beauty syndrome: the girl who sleeps for ten days at a runWhen 15-year-old Louisa Ball takes a nap, she doesn’t mess around. She sleeps for days on end, and no amount of shaking or prodding can fully wake her up. The girl has a rare cond...
In the past few months, I have been following with keen interest the new and novel approach towards a solution not only for the crisis of education in the North of Nigeria but of the Almajiri problem, a problem peculiar to Northern Nigeria. First, let ...
Omajafor Steve Omojafor, one of the founding fathers of advertising in Nigeria, is one of the troika that founded Rosabel Advertising Agency out of their zeal to create a model advertising outfit to give professional value to customers’ needs. Wi...
The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, yesterday sacked his Chief of Staff, Abu Fari, following the face-off between him and the National Secretary of the party, Olagunsoye Oyilola. In the sack letter dated June 12...
An uncompleted storey building, yesterday, collapsed in Apo Mechanic Site area of Abuja. Though no lives were lost in the incident, the three men who were working at the site and had been trapped under the rubble before help came sustained various degr...