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The Federal Government has been urged to tackle the prevailing insecurity for farmers to do their business and ensure food security nationwide. National Amir of The Companion (a group of Muslim professionals), Alhaji Thabit Wale Sonaike, made the call yesterday ...

The National Assembly has condemned its invasion by members of the Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzakky-led Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN). Chairman, Senate Ad-hoc Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Adedayo Adeyeye, told reporters in Abuja that the unruly mob overpowered the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’ ...