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The North East Emergency Manager for World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr. Collins Owill, has said that insecurity and hard-to-reach areas denied 820,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) access to healthcare in North East. Owill disclosed this yesterday in WHO’s 2016-2019 Report ...

The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) has condemned a fresh attack by gunmen in Gbagyi communities of Southern Kaduna. Armed herdsmen were said to have invaded Kugosi and Kajari villages in Chikun Local Council, killing three persons. The gunmen also ...

Although the Nigerian society is greatly polarised along with a variety of fault lines, none threatens its peace and stability more than religion. This is the assertion of a non-governmental organisation, The African Centre for Media and Information Literacy. Speaking ...

Assembly tasks Sanwo-Olu on prevention of spread The Lagos State government has declared that the first index case of coronavirus recorded in Nigeria has tested negative. Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi said the Italian who had been receiving treatment ...

Vice Chancellor of the Igbinedion University Okada (IUO), Professor Lawrence Ezemonye has canvassed collaboration and offering of courses on counter-insurgency operations to check insecurity in the country saying, “Security affair is not a one-man affair.” He made the call at ...

Workers have issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Rivers State government to resolve the issues concerning the implementation of the new national minimum wage or risk industrial action. A source in the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) told journalists that the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the military to clinically finish the remnants of Boko Haram insurgents in the North East to restore peace in the region. Inaugurating the National Humanitarian Coordination Committee (NHCC) at the State House, Abuja, the President ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that the diversification of Nigeria’s economy had become urgent in the face of the falling oil prices at the international market. He observed that digital technologies had become useful tools in this regard, adding that ...

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari, state governors and other leaders nationwide to be open to criticisms. Receiving members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) led by its chairman, Ademola Babalola, ...

The Abuja chapter of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) has embarked on an indefinite strike over alleged irregularities in salary payment and shortfalls since the introduction of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) by the Federal Capital ...