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The race for the leadership of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) for the next four years thickened on Saturday with the president of Tarayar Ekklisiyoyin Kristi A Nigeria (TEKAN), Dr. Caleb Ahima, declaring his intention to run. He will lock ...

The coalition for Quality Education Sustainability and Leadership (QESL) has urged the five-man selection committee of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) governing council to save the institution from internal crisis by ensuring that the best candidate emerges as the ...

Cross River State government has said that about 54 Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) were revived within four years to provide good healthcare for the people. The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Inyang Asibong, made this known in Calabar, the state capital ...

The destruction of health facilities and personnel by Boko Haram insurgents in North East has denied children of being immunised against cholera and other child-killer diseases. Forty-six per cent of health facilities in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe are either fully ...

Anglican bishop, HURIWA urge suspension of payment Labour unions in Ekiti State have urged Governor Kayode Fayemi to use the Paris Club refund to pay workers’ salary arrears, gratuities and pensions. The union leaders said that the labour would beam ...

The outgoing chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum (NGF), Kashim Shettima, in Kaduna hinted of moves by the body to reconcile his Kano counterpart, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, and Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II. Responding to media reports that quoted him to ...

Economists have revealed ways to boost the non-oil revenue in the country. Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG)’s Fiscal Policy Roundtable through its Citizens Perception Report, yesterday, urged government to establish an Office of Tax Simplification (OTS), among other recommendations, to ...

Unknown gunmen have abducted five oil workers in Akuku-Toru Council of Rivers State. It was learnt that the victims were working within the OML-55 operational area of an indigenous oil company, Belemaoil Producing Limited (BPL), when the bandits struck and ...

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has said that the northeast state is safer than the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and other states in the north. Shettima disclosed this before the House of Representatives Committee on Army at the Government ...

Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) have thrown their weight behind the implementation of financial autonomy for states’ legislature and judiciary, to ensure Nigeria attains high level transparency in governance. Speaking at the opening of a two-day conference on the implementation of ...