Sleeping beauty syndrome: the girl who sleeps for ten days at a runWhen 15-year-old Louisa Ball takes a nap, she doesn’t mess around. She sleeps for days on end, and no amount of shaking or prodding can fully wake her up. The girl has a rare cond...
In the past few months, I have been following with keen interest the new and novel approach towards a solution not only for the crisis of education in the North of Nigeria but of the Almajiri problem, a problem peculiar to Northern Nigeria. First, let ...
Omajafor Steve Omojafor, one of the founding fathers of advertising in Nigeria, is one of the troika that founded Rosabel Advertising Agency out of their zeal to create a model advertising outfit to give professional value to customers’ needs. Wi...
The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, yesterday sacked his Chief of Staff, Abu Fari, following the face-off between him and the National Secretary of the party, Olagunsoye Oyilola. In the sack letter dated June 12...
An uncompleted storey building, yesterday, collapsed in Apo Mechanic Site area of Abuja. Though no lives were lost in the incident, the three men who were working at the site and had been trapped under the rubble before help came sustained various degr...
The Nigerian Army and its Pakistani counterpart began a meeting yesterday at Rawalpindi with a view to striking a military deal between them. They have agreed to partner on areas of professional interest in furtherance of their long standing cordial re...
Based on the recommendation of a cabinet committee set up by the ministry of Interior, the Federal Government, yesterday, approved a new visa policy for the country aimed at competing with certain assumption and dynamics that have changed over the year...
A 74-year-old man, Mallam Danazimi Kawo of Bujun Kasuwa village in Lau Local Government Area of Taraba State said he lost all his properties in the recent attack on the village by suspected Bachama people from Ramurde Local Government Area ...
Four persons were killed along Bauchi road and Bukuru in Jos, the Plateau State capital, yesterday as security operatives moved to enforce the law banning commercial motorcycle operations, popularly called ‘okada’ in the state. ...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has called in the management of the Federal Secretariat in Minna to put in place an effective evacuation plan to safeguard the workers in the complex. The NEMA Zonal Coordinator, Mr Ishaya Chonoko, made t...
The Kano State government, in partnership with a German company, Helios Energie, has concluded arrangement to build two plants of combined 60 megawatts of electricity to be powered by solar energy to generate electricity for the use of Kano State. This...
Kano State governor, Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has directed the state civil commission to start the recruitment of 1003 graduates to the state civil service. Kwankwaso gave the directive during the swearing-in of new permanent secretary in the dir...
For allegedly shortchanging their customers, two petrol stations in Lokoja metropolis were yesterday sealed off by the Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON), in conjunction with the Federal Ministry of Trade and Investment. The service stations sealed...
A heavy downpour in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on Tuesday destroyed property worth several thousands of naira. The destruction was occasioned by the flooding that accompanied the torrential rainfall along Ajase-Ipo road, Ilorin. The heavy rain th...
Transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange appreciated for third consecutive day on Wednesday as the investing public weigh the implication of the suspension of the Director General of SEC, Ms Arunma Oteh. The News Agency Nigeria (NAN) rep...