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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 ...

The number of aspirants eyeing the Bayelsa gubernatorial ticket continues to snowball as a former President of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Edengs Eradiri, joins the race. Eradiri, who is the state’s Commissioner for Youths, was unveiled when a coalition ...

No fewer than 600 pensioners including an 85-year old man have decried the current screening exercise for retirees in Cross River State, describing it as embarrassing and the worst experience for them in recent times. Some of the pensioners, who ...

Governors of the South East region have denied allocating any portion of land for the Ruga Fulani herdsmen settlement, even as they promised to tolerate herdsmen who carry out peaceful trade. In a statement, the director-general of the South-East Governors’ ...

Senator Elisha Abbo engaged the Senate Committee probing his alleged assault on a nursing woman at a sex toyshop in Abuja in a shouting match. Trouble started when Abbo appeared before the panel, but declined to comment on the matter ...

The Federal High Court, Lagos has again, ordered that a plot of land in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, allegedly belonging to a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, be forfeited to the Federal Government. Justice Chuka Obiozor made ...

Stakeholders comprising oil and gas experts, civil society organisations and Niger Delta leaders have sought immediate action on crude theft, stating that the country had lost $12 billion to the menace. They accused security agencies, politicians and host communities of ...

Senators across party lines have blamed the rising cases of suicide among Nigerians on economic frustrations, particularly the high poverty level in the country. In separate submissions during debate on a motion sponsored by Theodore Orji (PDP Abia Central) and ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that the revival of the educational sector with focus on teaching of values like integrity in schools would require giving priority to the welfare and training of teachers who directly create the enabling environment for ...