A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday fixed June 11 and 12 for continuation of trial in the case filed against former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole. Bankole was charged on 16 counts of contract fraud leveled against him by t...
A member of the House of Representatives, Hon Charles Odedo who represents Idemili North/South Federal Constituency has stated that the much agitated rights for Nigerians living abroad to vote from the diaspora may not be possible in 2015 as proposed b...
The head of environmental department in Bwari area council, Haruna Ahmed has appealed to the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) to provide equipment to the council to aid it in its sanitation exercise. Speaking during an interview with new...
The ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Niger State has chided the only senator elected on the platform of the Congress for Progress Change (CPC) from the state, Senator Ibrahim Musa over his comments about the state government. The party w...
SEFIU AYANBIMPE in this report recounts some memorable eulogies from well-meaning Nigerians during last Thursday burial of Oshiomhole’s aide, Olaitan Oyerinde, in Ede,Osun State. Sounds of people weeping and heartfelt eulogies could be heard whil...
For Nigerians on death row in several prisons around the world for drug related offences, particularly the 16 in Indonesia, it is ‘farewell’ to the land of the dead. But for the many already jailed, especially the 300 in Indonesia, they mus...
Professor Sola Adeyeye is one of the progressive lawmakers of the current political dispensation in the upper chamber of National Assembly representing Osun Central Senatorial District of Osun State on the platform of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). ...
2011 has been a particularly rough year for the Church in Nigeria. To the best of my knowledge the Church has never felt so insecure and threatened than she has been in the last one year. It’s not as if she has never faced similar persecutions, a...
Dr. Simon Agwale is a virologist/vaccinologist and founder and chief executive officer of Innovative Biotech Ltd, Keffi, Nasarawa State, and Innovative Biotech, USA Inc. He was the West Africa’s representative on HIV/AIDs for Developing Countries...
Sports drinks hit the wire this month with a red light that their level of acidity is increasingly responsible for irreversible damage to teeth, especially amongst adolescents and younger adults, their predominant target market. The report is published...
Following the massive loss of lives being recorded from the current crisis that has led to the sack of 788 doctors in the employment of the Lagos State Government, the Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria (AGPMPN) has app...
Head or tail, should the health sector continue to suffer because of the battle for supremacy over the National Health Bill? WINIFRED OGBEBO examines the issues With anguish, a housewife in Jigawa State recounted her experience , “When my sister ...
The Bwari area council authority has presented instructional material to the Agency of Mass Literacy in support of the promotion of literacy programmes on radio. The institutional materials which include 600 pieces of new primers, 600 learners’ r...
A joint taskforce of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) yesterday demolished a bar attached to La Monde Hotel, located at Michika Street, Garki 2. The hotel is said to be owned by a serving governor. Speaking with journalists at the demol...
A campaign targeted at reviving and improving the reading culture in Nigeria, the 100 Book Challenge Nigeria has been launched in Abuja. The campaign, a private initiative is aimed at encouraging Nigerian children to read 100 books over the course of a...