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...
The National Bureau of Statistics last week announced that inflation rate rose to 12.9 per cent in April, year-on-year, driven largely by non-food items, sending interest rates on bonds and interbank borrowing on an upswing. The figure compared with a ...
The British High Commission (BHC) has renovate sports facilities in Government Secondary School Tudun Wada, Zone 4, Abuja. This is part of the organisation’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Speaking at the event yesterday, the British High...
The delay in the release of funds to the three tiers of government by the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) has further worsened the liquidity situation in the financial system, further increasing inter-bank lending rates last ...
The Nigerian Air Force is to embark on joint defence venture programme with local and foreign corporations to attract more economic prosperity to itself and the country. This is contained in a communiqué issued at the end of a seminar titled ``Effecti...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has congratulated Nigeria’s international midfielder, John Mikel Obi, over the UEFA Champions League victory. Obi’s club, the English Premiership team, Chelsea defeated the Germany’s Bayern Munich...
The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said that the volume of gas currently flared in the country has dropped from 19 per cent in December, 2011 to 14 per cent in January. This is contained in the latest edition of its online Mont...
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence official who was sentenced to life in prison in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, has died, the Libyan government said on Sunday. He was 60. The bombing of the Dec. 21, 1988 Pan Am flight from...