The 2019 global multidimensional poverty index has yet again ranked Nigeria among poorest nations in the world. This comes as the Save the Children (SC) said 300,000 internally displaced persons and host communities benefited from its N4,000 monthly stipends under ...

The Economic Community of West African States  (ECOWAS) Parliament has expressed concern over the United Nations High Commission on Refugees’ report that the sub-region constitutes 40 per cent of the world’s 70 million refugees and displaced persons. It blamed leadership ...

A group of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (MIN) known as Shi’ites has broken into the National Assembly complex premises, resulting in an exchange with security operatives. The Shi’ites broke down the first gate and proceeded to the second, which ...

Justice Chile Eboe-Osuji, President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has hinted that the global institution may assume jurisdiction over corruption cases in the future. In an interview in Abuja during his visit to Nigeria, Eboe-Osuji noted that embezzling funds ...

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT) has raised a five-man committee to resolve the crisis emanating from the emergence of Ndudi Elumelu as Minority Leader of the House of Representatives. BoT Chairman, Senator Walid Jibrin, who briefed the ...

Worried by the inability to access local government funds as a result of the result recent policy of the NFIU, the Cross River State Government is seeking a N5b loan. Already, 2018 reports of Economic Confidential had put the state’s ...

Suspected political thugs yesterday attacked some leaders of Adavi Council chapter of the National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) and Medical and Health Workers Union (MHWU) in Kogi State, leaving them with various degrees of injuries. They were protesting ...

Some medical experts have raised hope of survival for breast cancer patients if the affected persons could adopt self-discipline in their lifestyles, as a preventive measure and early detection to avert death. An oncologist, Dr. Brenda Nwamuo, who disclosed this ...

To prevent losing 70,327 lives to cancer yearly, Nigeria needs over N19.46b for prevention, diagnosis and treatment, hospice and palliative care, advocacy, data management and research, as well as governance and finance. The National Cancer Control Plan (NCCP) 2018 –2022, ...

A United States-based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Newstime International has offered to partner the Federal Government and Nigerians to end insurgency that has claimed several lives and property. The faith-based group with Christians, Moslems and other religions as members, insisted that ...