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*Staff members walk against cancer* Ecobank Nigeria has pledged its commitment and financial support for the fight against non-communicable diseases. Managing Director, Ecobank Nigeria, Patrick Akinwuntan, said this at the weekend during the bank’s cancer awareness walk in Lagos as ...

The Federal Government has disclosed that plans were underway for the reclamation of 1,260 abandoned mining sites nationwide. Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite, dropped the hint at a media briefing in Abuja to herald the 2019 Mining ...

An employee of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Ukwunna Anthony, has been arraigned at a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Abuja by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for allegedly defrauding job seekers of ...

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has backed the commitment of both the executive and legislative arms of government to ensure the national budget is returned to the January-December cycle. Expressing the hope of the early passage of the 2020 ...

The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has charged the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to take the issue of migration seriously with a view to avoiding a rise in extremism. The immediate past governor of Osun State, who ...

President of Amazing Love Assembly, Bishop Amaechi Nwachukwu has said that Nigeria must adequately fund the nation’s education sector to guarantee its future. He said improved infrastructure, skills acquisition, training and partnerships were required to move the country’s education to ...

The Akwa Ibom State Government has sought residents and commuters understanding and patience given the current inconveniences they are facing following diversion of traffic from Olusegun Obasanjo Way and Abak Road. State Commissioner for Works, Ephraim Inyangeyen, made the appeal ...

The Senate has resolved to ask the Federal Government to direct the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) to begin construction of the oil, gas and research centre in Oloibiri Community, Bayelsa State where oil was first discovered in commercial quantity in ...

The United Nation Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has raised concerns over the increasing smuggling of Tramadol through the nation’s seaports. It disclosed that the quantity of smuggled Tramadol seized at the seaports has gone up from eight tons ...

An Epidemiologist at the Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Health and Chairman, Committee on the Nigerian Medical Association Physicians Week, Dr. Aniekeme Uwah, has disclosed that a Coordination Center for Disease Control would soon be established in the state. He ...