A university teacher, Professor Dominic Osaghae, has identified pre-term birth complications, Acute Respiratory Tract Infection (ARI), Intra-partum related complications, congenital Anomalies and Diarrhoea, as the leading causes of deaths among children. He listed Malaria, VPD and Environmental Hazards, as well ...

Archbishop of Metropolitan See of Lagos, The Most Reverend Alfred Adewale Martins, says since Nigeria was a secular nation, President Buhari should not have attended the OIC meeting at a time the citizens were opposing alleged Fulanisation of the country. ...

Representative of Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, has reacted to his defense of President Muhammadu Buhari for attending Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in Saudi Arabia. President Buhari had earlier been criticised for attending the OIC summit, which ...

The Arewa Youth Awareness Forum (AYAF) has said the North will oppose attempt to foist Femi Gbajabiamila as Speaker of the House of Representatives, saying his membership of the eighth National Assembly was full of controversies. In a statement issued ...

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has revoked the licence of an Execujet Airline pilot over alleged violation of aviation regulations. Although it withheld the name and airline of the pilot, the regulator disclosed that the sanction was the consequence ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has decried presidency’s silence on alleged attacks on justices of the Supreme Court by Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) Professor Itse Sagay. In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, it ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a Federal Government delegation to support Nigeria’s candidate, Professor Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, who is vying for United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) president in New York on Tuesday. Professor Bande, who is Nigeria’s Permanent Representative at the ...

Nigeria and Ghana have signed an agreement to enhance cross-border joint search and rescue exercise in air traffic-related emergencies. The pact, signed by the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) and the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) in Lagos, stipulates guidelines ...

Cleric urges fairness in choice of cabinet members National Chairman of the People Nigeria Party (PNP) and Presidential Candidate in the last election, Professor Peter Nwangwu has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has offered nothing but induced poverty and ...

Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has explained why his successor, Adams Oshiomhole, ran into trouble in running the parry’s affairs. Reacting to a statement by chairmen of South-South APC states chapters who blamed ...