Nurses and Allied Medical Workers at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Umuahia, have embarked on an indefinite strike over non-payment of new welfare package approved for medical workers. A check conducted by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspond...
The Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) says four Global System for Mobile (GSM) Communications operators are to pay a cumulative sum of N1.17 billion penalty for poor Quality of Services (QoS). In a statement made available to newsmen on Saturday ...
Gov. Peter Obi of Anambra says his administration will provide a better working environment for civil servants for efficient service delivery. Obi said this in Awka on Friday while declaring open a Workshop for workers in the ...
For rendering poor services to their customers, four Global System for Mobile Communications operators have been ordered by the Nigerian Communications Commission to pay N1.2 billion fine. The GSM operators-MTN, GLO, Airtel and Etisalat, reportedly fai...
The ECOWAS Committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff (CCDS) will meet on Monday to consider modalities for the deployment of troops to Guinea Bissau and Mali. According to a statement from the commission on Friday in Abuja, the move is part ...
Rivers Commissioner for Social Welfare and Rehabilitation, Mr Joe Poroma, has pledged to support the bill before the state House of Assembly on the physically challenged persons. Poroma made the pledge while declaring open a one day public h...
Senate President David Mark has called on members of the Boko Haram Sect to accept Federal Government’s proposal for dialogue. A statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Kola Ologbondiyan, said Mark made...
If the glamorous English Premier League (EPL) over the year didn’t live up to all the media hype ascribed to its as the best league in the world in terms of entertainment and mind boggling of the round leather game, the 2011/2012 season cer...
The Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Professor Adetokunbo Babatunde Sofoluwe is dead. Aged 62, Professor Sofoluwe reportedly slumped during a meeting on friday at the Senate Chambers of the institution. He was rushed to the Lag...
Six; tribulation will, doubtless, affect those engaged in da’wah work. That is Allah’s way of treatment in all the generations that went before. Study the lives of prophets and messengers; were they immune from tribulations and hardships? T...
In a gesture of unyielding compassion, Jennifer Hudson is offering prayers for the man found guilty of murdering her mother, brother, and young nephew. The Academy Award-winning singer and actress wrote in a statement Friday evening that ‘the Lor...
Navy Captain Caleb Olubolade is the Minister of Police Affairs, under whose supervision, a major project to check insecurity is being undertaken. In this interview with Soni Daniel and Emma OkereH, Olubolade sheds light on the job and the nature of pol...
It has an Arabian origin, then travelled through the western world. Shisha has arrived Nigeria and is gradually gaining presence. More common in the northern region of the country than other parts, it can mostly be found in bars, night clubs and can al...
Insecurity which has been ravaging the Nigerian fabric in the recent time especially in the North, came to the front burner at a national symposium organised by NASFAT, in Abuja. In this report, EMMA OKEREH tries to look at the issues that played out a...
A mobile police corporal identified as James Ameh who attempted to stop his colleagues from extorting money from a commercial bus driver at the Eleme Junction intersection/flyover, Obio/Akpor local government area of Rivers State was beaten to a coma, ...