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Dr Ore Falomo, the Chairman, Lagos State Medical Advisory Committee, has warned doctors in the state who are currently on strike that their action is ``a flagrant abuse of their professional calling’’. He told journalists in Lagos on Friday...
Six footballers were on Saturday arrested by the police for failing to observe the Environmental Sanitation stipulated by the Lagos State Government. The exercise is observed on the last Saturday of every month and it begins from 7 a.m. ...
A Consultant Gyneacologist, Dr Peter Adefuye, has called on the Federal Government to come up with an effective cancer control policy that will cater for cancer patients in Nigeria. He made the call at the beginning of the Cancer Awareness Campaign, or...
Prof. Emmanuel Ezeani of University of Nigeria, Nsukka, has urged the Federal Government to reposition the country’s local government councils to fast-track development at the grassroots level. Ezeani made the call on Friday in Ns...
Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo of GombeState has assured the GombeStateUniversity community of adequate security. Dankwambo gave the assurance on Friday in Gombe, while reacting to Thursday's bomb blast at the SenateBuilding of the university. He...
NAFDAC on Friday warned the public of fake methylated spirits in the market, as it paraded two suspects who were allegedly caught with N72,000 worth of the product in Onitsha. Mr Benson Kine, a Deputy Director in NAFDAC, told journalists ...
The Kaduna State Government has advised residents to report any incidentof suspected Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) in the state. The government gave the advice when it announced a five-point prevention strategy against the outbreak of t...
The Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, says the media are being attacked because of the ``crucial and significant’’ role they play in the quest to end acts of terrorism. Maku made the remark on Friday when he visited the office of Th...
The Director General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mr Mike Omeri, has urged journalists to be resolute and not deterred by Thursday’s attacks on media houses. Omeri, in a statement, signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Paul Odenyi,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Friday April 27, 2012 secured a landmark victory in its suit against former governor of Abia state, Orji Uzor Kalu at the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, when the panel of three justices led by Jus...
The Vice-Chancellor of the Gombe State University (GSU), Prof. Idris Mahdi, has said that Thursday’s bombing of the Senate Building of the institution will not affect academic activities in the university. He said this in an interview with...
Kaduna State Government said on Friday that it had cancelled the April Environmental sanitation exercise due to the 33th Kaduna International Trade Fair that will be officially declared open on April 28. Mr Solomon Guruza, the Director of Environ...
An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Friday remanded a 65 year-old Islamic cleric Akanbi Ibrahim for allegedly defiling a 15 year-old girl. Ibrahim was arraigned on a three-count charge of rape, force and assault, contrary to Sections 283 and 265 of ...
Nemesis has caught up with a member of a robbery syndicate who was shot dead in error, yesterday, by one of their members. LEADERSHIP was reliably informed that the robbery suspect was mistakenly shot dead by his colleague during a shootout with securi...
Civil Society Coalition of Nigeria has faulted the recent attack by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola even as it described it as an attempt to weaken his government before the next general election. The N...