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The findings of the 2010 Integrated Biological and Behavioural Survey among the high risk groups in Nigeria, show increase of HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men (MSM). The Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, said this at a meet...
Alhaji Abubakar Audu, the ACN candidate in the Dec. 3 governorship election in Kogi, has filed a petition challenging the result of the election as announced by INEC.Audu, who filed the petition on Wednesday at the state High Court complex in Lokoja, r...
The National working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA ) on Thursday in Abuja announced a 14-man committee for the burial of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegu-Ojukwu. A statement, signed by Chief Ifeanacho Oguejofor, the party’s ...
The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) has said that the number of persons on Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) will increase from 400,000 to 600,000 in 2012.Prof. John Idoko, Director General, made this known in Abuja on Wednesday during an en...
The Police said in Lokoja on Wednesday that they are on the trail of members of a robbery gang that robbed the branches of G.T. Bank, UBA and Intercontinental Bank in Okene on Tuesday. The Kogi police command spokesman, Mr Ajayi Okasanmi, who confirmed...
The Senate yesterday said that it, among other legislative functions, introduced a total of 106 bills and passed one since the inception of the seventh session on June 6, 2011. The passed bill was the controversial same sex marriage prohibition bill. C...
Northern Youth under aegis of Arewa Youth Forum, (AYF), yesterday, cautioned that the planned protest by Nigerian Workers under the umbrella of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and other Civil Society groups over government’s plan to remo...
A Lokoja High Court has held that the indefinite manning of affairs of council areas by directors of local government in Kogi State was unlawful. Delivering judgement on the suit filed by some chieftains of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the s...
The Governor of Niamey Region, Aishatu Kane Bulama has explained the reason for the recent award of Grand Officer of the National Order of Niger,GONON, second highest merit award in Niger Republic, to the Katsina State Governor, Ibrahim Shehu Shema. Bu...
There was a mild drama on Wednesday in Kaduna when some youth attacked men of the State Fire Service who came to put off the fire that engulfed an Oando Filling station located around Angwan Sariki bus stop in the state metropolis. LEADE...
The Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Tuesday in Lagos said the removal of oil subsidy would strengthen investors’ confidence in the capital market. She said this at a forum organised by the Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG) with...
The National Chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), Chief Osita Okereke, has advised President Goodluck Jonathan to make peace with aggrieved political parties to strengthen the nation's democracy. Okereke gave the advice in Abuja at ...
About six billion Naira is being spent on sugar importation in Nigeria to supplement the sugar needs of the country, the Benue State Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr Eugene Aliegba, has said. He stated this on Tuesday in Makurdi at the National Sugar D...
The State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke, has pleaded with the United Nations to pay greater attention to issues of Bakassi resettlement with a view to ameliorating the sufferings of displaced persons in the area. Imoke made the plea in Cala...
Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has called on women to champion the campaign against the rising crime rate in the nation. Okorocha, who made this call at the annual Imo Women Day celebration held at the Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri, remarked that yo...