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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Senior Special Assistant to Edo State Governor on Anti-Human Trafficking Issues, Solomon Okoduwa, has said that the state government is committed to the welfare and reintegration of returned migrants from Libya. Okoduwa spoke at the end of an empowerment programme ...

Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, has described the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) as one of the leading centres in health services and training institutions in the country. Besides, Gowon and the National Chairman of the All ...

The House of Representatives has passed a Bill for an Act to establish the South-East Development Commission to serve as a catalyst for developing the commercial potentials of the region through its second reading. It is also meant to receive ...

Barely 24 hours after sacking his Commissioner for Agriculture, Akwa Ibom Governor Udom Emmanuel has suspended Chairman, Local Government Service Commission, Dr. Valentine Attah, for allegedly employing persons without government’s approval. Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem, ...

Bauchi State Governor-elect, Abdulkadir Bala Mohammed has alleged that the state’s debt profile has risen to N96 billion and indicted the outgoing government for the development. Mohammed, who stated this in Abuja through Head of the Transition Team, Ladan Salihu, ...

Commercial activities were paralysed in Yenagoa and Kaiama, hometown of the late Ijaw hero, Isaac Adaka Boro, as the Ijaw of Bayelsa State converged to celebrate this year’s Isaac Boro Day. Shops, markets and other businesses were closed down in ...