United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon yesterday highlighted the importance of road safety in preventing more than one million people from dying and many more from getting injured each year in traffic accidents. “This year, the ...
Only recently, an unprecedented tragedy unfolded in the Niger Delta Region, with surging flood spreading through the East-West Road which is the flagship project of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs. Terrified by the surging water which rendered dist...
About 300 Nigerians living in the Republic of Botswana have been deported back to Nigeria by the Lieutenant General Seretse Khama Ian Khama administration in the past few months following refusal of the authorities to renew their permits. Perturbed by ...
Gunmen, yesterday, wreaked havoc in Kaduna and Bauchi states when two policemen and other civilians were killed in an orgy of bloodshed. In Kaduna, the gunmen riding on a motorbike shot and killed one police officer, Corporal Bejamin Sule and one other...
A Lagos lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has called on the National Assembly to direct President Goodluck Jonathan to stop the about to be taken $7.9 billion foreign loan. Instead, he urged the government to recover billions of dollars the Nigerian National ...
It was another shocking sight at a residence in Jikwoyi, an Abuja suburb, where a man who simply gave his name as Mr. Peters, disclosed at the weekend, that his 30 year old younger brother raped his 14 months old daughter. According to sources, the mot...
Hon Agi Jerome Aduojo is a philanthropist and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).He has been an advocate of social change and youth empowerment. In this interview with OSBY ISIBOR, he spoke on the review of the 1999 constitution, Ribadu re...
Nigeria’s political parties were put on the slammer last week and ironically its major players took turns to upbraid it. At the heart of the matter is absence of internal democracy, discipline and lack of any ideological bent. UCHENNA AWOM writes...
It began as a small boil in the middle of his forehead in 2008; painful though it was, there was nothing particularly extra-ordinary about it. So, when it was ripe and pregnant with pus, Mal Adamu Muhammed, 37, decided to prick it open. Immediately, th...
The president, Spinal Bifida and Hydrocephalus Care Foundation, Mrs Lawani Dubumi, has disclosed that about 12,000 pregnancies by Nigerian women are predisposed to birth defects. Speaking to newsmen during the first World Spinal Bifid...
Each year on November 14, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), seeks to promote the theme of ‘education and prevention’ on World Diabetes Day. The campaign slogan for 2012 is, ‘Diabetes: protect our future’ and foc...
The astronomical increase in unclaimed dividends in the country that was put in the region of N52 billion by the apex market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has been traced to the complicity of some registrars who allegedly con...
The Federal Government, through the Nigerian Ports Authority has extended contract periods for two major concessionaires within the Tin Can Island Port Complex by five years each even as the initial contractual terms are yet to expire. The two terminal...
Stakeholders in the water and sanitation sector will on Tuesday, Nov. 20, converge on Lafia, the capital of Nasarawa State, for the 21st meeting of National Council on Water Resources. Mrs Sarah Ochekpe, the Minister of Water Resources, told the News A...
The Kaduna State Christian Pilgrims Board says that prospective pilgrims will not be allowed to climb Mount Sinai during this year’s pilgrimage. Rev. Joseph Yari, the agency’s Executive Secretary, said this while speaking with the News Agen...