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The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has commended the Federal Government for including health as an area to be tackled by the Economic Management Team.Speaking with newsmen in Abuja the President of the NMA, Dr Omede Idris, said the action of the Fe...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, which was established to combat graft in all its ramifications, appears to have gone into inertia because of its inability to try and convict high profile Nigerians who have allegedly stolen huge sums of mo...
Chairman, Senate Committee on Science and Technology, Sen. Robert Boroffice, said in Abuja on Thursday that the Senate would be very objective in deliberating on the proposed withdrawal of fuel subsidy. Boroffice told journalists that the outcome of th...
The Civic Duties Awareness Initiative (CIDAI), has condemned the Cross River State government over the purchase of a N13 billion ‘dead’ aircraft from the Rivers State government. CIDAI’s executive director, Mr. Emmanuel Ulayi, a...
Amb.Vicki Huddleston, the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for in Africa, says that her country and Nigeria will strengthen ties in defence. Huddleston gave the assurance on Friday in Abuja when she paid a courtesy call on the Minister...
Some Islamic leaders in Lagos have called on the Senate not to entertain any debate on prostitution. The leaders said that any legislative process to legalise prostitution in the country was shameful, unreasonable and a celebration of immorality. The I...
23 local government chairmen in Kaduna State have unanimously quashed the allegation levelled against them of a bribery scandal. In a statement, the Makarfi local government caretaker chairman, Alhaji Mohammed Garba Sabon Gari, who spoke unbehalf of hi...
Mr Ogunjimi Abayomi, the immediate past chairman of Amuwo district of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), has advised Nigerians to stop corrupt practices.Abayomi made the call in an interview in Lagos recently. As far as he ...
The Kebbi State Pilgrims Welfare Board says it has put in place a rigorous pre-departure screening for intending pilgrims. Executive chairman of the board, Alhaji Usman Suru, said this on Thursday in Birnin Kebbi while speaking ...
The Senate Committee on Power, yesterday expressed its preparedness to partner with the Ministry of Power in ensuring that the various power plants in the country are repositioned to improve power supply to Nigerians. Chairman of the committee, Senator...
The Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola, has said that his administration is collaborating with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to bring more visibility to mental health care in the state. Fashola made the disclosure at the mental health ...
Ahuraka Isa examines some of the good, bad and ugly rulings and verdicts of the judiciary in the last 10 years. On May 24, 2011, the Justice Ayo Isah Salami-led Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja was full to capacity. Some of the ...
The Governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu, has said that six states are financially distressed with 15 others likely to go down if the revenue allocation formula was not reviewed to cushion the effect of the financial burden on the states as a resul...
Arewa Youths Forum (AYF) has expressed dismay over the way and manner the Vice President Namadi Sambo has been handling his purported presidential ambition saying he should not disgrace the region. The group in an emergency meeting in Kaduna, said that...
Plateau State Chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said that there is no going back on the ongoing strike in the state.Addressing a press conference in Jos, the state capital, the state NLC Chairman, Comrade Jibrin Banchir, said the strike ...