The Federal Government has renewed its commitment to improving the lives of women, children and persons with disabilities. The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Zainab Maina, made the statement in her presentation at the minister...
Three witnesses summoned to testify in the petition challenging the result of the re run election for Jos North/Bassa Federal Constituency disappeared on Monday shortly after the Election Petition Tribunal began sitting. The action of the witnesses cre...
UNICEF says plans are underway to establish grassroots disaster resilient programmes in the six geo-political zones of the country to ameliorate the effects of climate change. Mr Kannan Nadar, the Officer in Charge in the UNICEF Water Sanitation and Hy...
The FCT Minister, Sen. Bala Mohammed, has directed the Development Control Department of the FCT to remove ``all shanties springing up in the capital. Mohammed who gave the directive in a statement by the ministry's Chief Press Secretary, Mr Mohamm...
Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on Monday said sustainable development could only be achieved in Nigeria if its citizens obeyed laws. He spoke when a delegation of the Ikeja Branch of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) led by its Chairman, Mr Taiw...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Monday announced the seizure of 9.5kg of creamy cocaine, valued at N90 million, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja. This was contained in a statement by the agency’s spo...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said the Lagos State government acted responsibly and in accordance with the state’s civil/public service rules in sacking the striking doctors in its employment. In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday b...
A human rights group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has expressed dissatisfaction with the proposed increase in electricity tariff. The Executive Director of SERAP, Mr Adetokunbo Mumuni told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) ...
Ahmad Rabi’u, the Chairman, Conference of Northern States Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, in this interview with ISAAC AIMURIE, EZRA IJiOMA and RUTH TENE, gives an insight into the losses the north incurs ...
At plenary last Tuesday, the Senate President, David Mark, advocated dialogue as a way out of the security crisis and also beamed the spotlight on the national assembly for being reactive instead of proactive. Chibuzo Ukaibe, reports. His first o...
The Senate has continued to blow the whistle on the neo-colonial business practices of some foreign airlines. UCHENNA AWOM, in this Diary, asks if it is not time to quicken the review of the Bilateral Air Services Agreement (BASA). The Senate onslaught...
EDEGBE ODEMWINGIE in this report, details the highpoints of the ongoing House of Representatives inquest into the near collapse of Nigeria’s capital market. Federal lawmakers hope the public hearing will restore back confidence in the ailing mark...
On May 4, 2012, Nigeria joined the rest of the world to celebrate this year’s World Malaria Day. The event, which was hosted by the Rivers State government, was attended by the minister of health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu as well as representat...
The Chief Executive Officer of a non governmental organisation, known as Afribaby, Dr. Odion Oscar Odiboh, in a chat with FLORENCE UDOH, is canvassing for a six months maternity leave for women. He disclosed that his organisation  ...
But for the few whose relations have cried out, quite a large number of women still die giving life due to sheer carelessness by health workers in the nation’s health institutions, WINIFRED OGBEBO reports. Mrs. Uloma Egbuchulam Anyanechi died on ...