The Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI) has revealed that child mortality rates in the country is on the increase because of low up take of modern family planning methods by the people. The Programme Director of NURHI,, Mrs Adeb...
Bauchi State government has been called upon to set aside adequate fund for maternal health programes so as to reduce the rate of maternal morbidity and mortality in the state. The Executive Director of a non gogernmental organization, Community ...
The United States government and the federal government last week signed a partnership framework implementation plan on HIV/AIDS for 2010-2015. Speaking at the occasion, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim said t...
Recently, UNICEF, with funding from the Japanese government moved to curb the high incidences of malnutrition in some parts of northern Nigeria. WINIFRED OGBEBO, who went on a fact-finding mission, reports. A recent report has revealed that over 35,000...
Gwagwalada Area Council has threatened to sanction a firm Techstyle Engineering, for delaying in the completion the FRCN-Kutunkun Road. The council chairman, Alhaji Zakari Angulu, who made the threat in Gwagwalada during an inspection tour of som...
As festivities leading to December pick-up, the National Association of Luxury Bus Drivers has called for adequate and better road signs ahead of police checkpoints to reduce accidents on the high ways. National Chairman of the association, Mr. O...
Captain Idris Wada of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has emerged winner of the Kogi State governorship election in a landslide victory. Wada won with 300,372 votes, Abubakar Audu of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) secured 159,913 votes, Ubolo ...
Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke has hinted that a new law meant to simplify criminal prosecutions, as well as strengthen the nation’s criminal justice system is to be promulgated soon. Adoke noted that when operationa...
Imo State governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, has directed the immediate suspension of the monthly salaries of all the traditional rulers in six local government areas of the state over what he termed “an increase in criminal activities” in t...
Cult-related war has allegedly claimed the lives of two persons in Umuojoagu, Issele-Azagba, Aniocha North local government area of Delta State, as hundreds of residents fled the area for fear of loosing their lives. Reports said cult war activities be...
Tragedy struck on the Sagbama River in Sagbama local government area of Bayelsa State when six persons drowned, following a boat mishap which occurred on Friday night. Leadership Sunday gathered that the ill-fated canoe was on its way to Agoloma&...
A 92-year-old newspaper vendor, Pa Ephraim Obinedu, got more thanhe looked forward to on Friday, when he was recognised as the oldest Nigerian by the Anambra chapter of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), when they bestowed on him the Vendor Award...
The Borno State government has set up an environmental mobile court to check indiscriminate dumping of wastes in Maiduguri, the state capital. Permanent secretary, in the state’s Ministry of Environment, Alhaji Mustapha Kurna, disclosed the plan ...
The Anambra state government has issued a warning to all street beggars, especially children used by their parents to beg for alms, to vacate the streets or be arrested. 29 of such women who displayed their children as strategy for getting alms h...
The Former Director of Corp Welfare of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Dr John Abhuere has disclosed that the elite were responsible for the current security challenges wrecking havoc in the country. He made the disclosure in Abuja yesterday w...