The Anti-Vandal Squad of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Oyo State Command, on Saturday arrested four suspected pipeline vandals. The four suspects, Tijjani Abdulahi, 33; Sarafa Sanusi, 35; Wasiu Ajibola, 35; and Sunday Solomon, 4...
The Kano State Task force on Fake, Counterfeit and Adulterated Drugs has called on the state police command to provide adequate security to its members and their families. The Chairman of the Task force, Dr Ali Adamu, made the call while addressing new...
The Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations in New York has paid cheques worth 1.6 million dollars as gratuity to its local staff who had served for between 30 and 40 years. The New York Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) repo...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD is a serious lung disease that over time, makes breathing difficult. Physicians prefer to use the term COPD because the condition involves two lung diseases - chronic bronchitis and emphysema, which frequentl...
If a baby is does not look at his parent when they talk to him, if does not try to play games that other babies his age are playing, if he rarely smiles, if he points to things when he wants them instead of telling his parent, if he does the same thing...
One of the greatest anxieties that humans dread is aging. Like all living things, the process of aging means edging towards the end of life. But this is not to say that aging is a death sentence because at this point people tend to let go off a lot of ...
In the olden days, before the emergence and eventual domination of orthodox medicine, people lived healthier and simpler with common herbs that turn life on. It has been a long way to where we are now, but still, a journey punctuated by obvious life-th...
Indications merged last night that Kaduna State Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero has concluded plans to dissolve the cabinet which he inherited from the late Governor Ibrahim Yakowa. A source close to the governor confided in LEADERSHIP WEEKEND that the d...
Police detectives in Delta State have arrested six suspected rapists allegedly responsible for a series of rape activities in Warri metropolis. Police spokesman in the state, ASP Famous Ajieh confirmed that the suspects were arrested yesterday while us...
The Presidential Task Force on Power (PTFP) has said that President Goodluck Jonathan did not lie on the nation’s power generation figure as published by an online media which erroneously misinterpreted the President’s press briefing held l...
As the Kano State government goes tough on fake drugs and adulterated products’ sellers, the chairman of the newly inaugurated Kano State Task Force on Fake, Counterfeit, Adulterated Drugs and Unwholesome Processed Food Products, Alhaji Ali...
Renowned philanthropist and former Minister of Defence, Gen.Theophilous Yakubu Danjuma (rtd) yesterday condoled with Governor Mukhtar Ramallan Yero, Mrs Amina Yakowa and the people of the state over the death of Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa. He desc...
Justice M. Kolo of an Abuja High Court yesterday held that he would remit the case file of a suit by a former Bayelsa State Governor Timpreye Slyva seeking to stop the Economic and Financial Crimes Commision (EFCC)from taking possession of ...
Minister of Water Resources, Mrs. Sarah Ochekpe, has called for early commencement of processes for effective reservoir management to mitigate possible effects of excessive rainfall in 2013. At a strategic meeting for performance and agenda setting, an...
The Kogi State police command has arrested a 46-year-old suspected traditionalis,t Hosea Folorums, over the murder his four-month-old son. The commissioner of police, Kogi State Command, Alhaji Mohammed Katsina, who paraded the suspect in Lokoja yester...