Alhaji Isa Sali, the Head of the Civil Service of the Federal, said in Abuja on Thursday that the Federal Government was concerned about the high level of corruption in both the public and private sectors. Sali made the remark at an interactive session...
The Federal Government says it will establish two blood component production centres by 2013 in order to get maximum benefits from every unit of blood donated. The Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday while bri...
The Nigeria Air Force has completed its International Helicopter Flying School in Enugu and may inaugurate it in July, an official has said. The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Mohammed Umar, made the announcement during a courtesy visit to Gov. Sulliv...
Alhaji Aminu Kofar-Soro, the Sokoto State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Thursday warned officers and men of the corps against misuse of fire arms. Kofar-Soro told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Sokoto state ...
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...