While 2012 was set as a deadline for Nigeria to eradicate the wild polio virus, the country has continued to witness upsurge in the virus with 56 cases already reported . In this interview with WINIFRED OGBEBO, Dr Abdullah...
Health workers in the field of Medical Laboratory Science have been called upon to avoid strike action in the course of their duties and to avoid dabbling in politics in the name of unionism. The minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu gave this adv...
As part of the multi-dimensional approach towards fighting drug counterfeiting, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has decided to deploy some regulatory officers to man the new Mega Drug Distribution Centers buil...
The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) through the support of the Global Fund grant atthe weekend handed over the last 6 of 28 vehicles for community services against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The agency said its part of intensifi...
Human rights activist and lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, in this interview with PAUL DADA, x-rays the recent nationwide strike by the organised labour and vouches for the integrity of labour leaders just as he explains the wider implications of the fuel hike...
These are not the best of times for the country. The spate of bombings for which the Boko Haram Islamist sect has claimed responsibility has set the nation on the edge. The fabrics of unity, harmony and corporate co-existence of the c...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said it is not going to suspend its ongoing strike as speculated by government, unless its demands are met. The Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufai, after a meeting with the various universit...
Following the truce reached by the organised labour and the federal government over the disagreement and subsequent mêlée over President Goodluck Jonathan’s fuel subsidy removal, which was later, partially reversed, LEADERSHIP SUNDAY can confir...
Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Tambuwal, has urged all Nigerians to respect the sanctity of human life while voicing their grievances, saying last Friday's multiple blasts that rocked the ancient city of Kano call for greater concern ...
The Chairman of the Corresponding Chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) , Kano State Chapter , Malam Mujtapha Ramalan Bello, has said that the late reporter with the Channels Television repor...
Police in Funtua Local Government Area of Katsina State on Friday arrested a suspected armed robbery kingpin, Tasi’u Bommalli, who later died of multiple gun shot injuries on the way to the hospital. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that ...
A bill awaiting passage and presidential assent in the House of Representatives may compel President Goodluck Jonathan to set security standards on all public buildings, recreational parks and other buildings in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and ...
Following the controversy trailing the emergence of Hon. Seriake Dickson as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, the Human Rights Writers’ Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA) has petitioned chairman of the National Judicial Co...
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has expressed deep shock and outrage over the coordinated bombings in Kano that claimed scores of lives. He also condemned the bombing in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. In a statement from his Media Office in Abuja, Atiku ...
One of the Boko Haram members that attacked the Farm Centre Police Division had hundreds of thousands of naira on him. He accessed the police office by trekking from Ali Rano Road, off Country Mall, Farm Centre Kano Metropolis, he wrapped himself with ...