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A university teacher, Professor Dominic Osaghae, has identified pre-term birth complications, Acute Respiratory Tract Infection (ARI), Intra-partum related complications, congenital Anomalies and Diarrhoea, as the leading causes of deaths among children. He listed Malaria, VPD and Environmental Hazards, as well ...

Archbishop of Metropolitan See of Lagos, The Most Reverend Alfred Adewale Martins, says since Nigeria was a secular nation, President Buhari should not have attended the OIC meeting at a time the citizens were opposing alleged Fulanisation of the country. ...

Representative of Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, has reacted to his defense of President Muhammadu Buhari for attending Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in Saudi Arabia. President Buhari had earlier been criticised for attending the OIC summit, which ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a Federal Government delegation to support Nigeria’s candidate, Professor Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, who is vying for United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) president in New York on Tuesday. Professor Bande, who is Nigeria’s Permanent Representative at the ...

The Centre for Social Justice, Equality and Transparency has accused foreign media outfits of promoting the activities of the terrorists in Nigeria. In a report presented in Abuja by its Executive Director, Isaac Ikpa, the group revealed that in the ...

The Nigerian Army has urged the public to disregard the claims by Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) that it had captured military personnel and equipment in Lake Chad region. In a statement yesterday in Maiduguri, Borno State, spokesman of ...

Media personality and former Big Brother Nigeria (BBN) finalist, Alex Asogwa popularly known as Alex Unusual, has mentored over 100 kids between the ages five and 13 years to mark the Children’s Day celebration. The event, which held in Lagos ...

President Muhammadu Buhari says the destruction of oil facilities by vandals operating in the Niger Delta hurts the host communities and the environment more than it hurts government. Receiving South-South Monarchs Forum (SSMF) led by King Edmund Daukoru, Mingi XII, ...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has declared that for democracy to endure in Nigeria, the country must embrace electronic voting. Deploring the military interference in this year’s general elections in Rivers State, he advised the Ninth National Assembly to review the ...

The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has warned the Federal Government against acts capable of throwing the nation into genocide, accusing some officials of the current administration of allegedly backing militia groups. Its Publicity Secretary, Yinka Odumakin, gave the warning while ...