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 ...
Read More »APC slams Ganduje, others over el-Rufai’s alleged role in Sanusi’s removal
Kaduna and Kano states chapters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are at loggerheads over the controversial dethronement of Lamido Sanusi as Emir of Kano. APC chieftain in Kaduna, Yusuf Ali (Rabagardama) described the Kano chapter of the party as ...
Read More »SOKAPU condemns fresh attack by herdsmen on Kaduna communities
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 ...
Read More »Governor Ishaku returns to Taraba, says domestic accident kept him away from office
Taraba State Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku has deemed it necessary to return to the state after 87 days of prolonged absence. Ishaku was last seen performing a public function in December last year when he presented the 2020 Appropriation Bill ...
Read More »Safety professionals allay fears over coronavirus
President of the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSF), Nsikak A. Ekam, has allayed fears of participants and other Nigerians at its three-day Professional Development Conference (PDC) and Exhibition holding in Abuja between March 19 and March 21, 2020. Speaking ...
Read More »Religion greatest threat to Nigeria’s quest for peace, stability’
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 ...
Read More »TETFund mulls dairy research, devt centres in varsities
Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Professor Suleiman Bogoro has said the agency’s Board of Trustees (BoT) had recommended to President Muhammadu Buhari to establish centres of excellence on diary research and development in public universities. He ...
Read More »JAMB releases UTME results of one million candidates
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results of over one million candidates that sat for the test on Tuesday. Its Head of Media and Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said candidates could ...
Read More »Suspected herdsmen kill Rivers PDP ex-guber aspirant
Suspected herdsmen have killed a former governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State, Soalabo West. He was reportedly kidnapped outside his farm and later died in custody. The lawyer was abducted on March ...
Read More »Okowa, Tambuwal commission road project in Delta State
Sokoto State Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwa yesterday commissioned the 1.88 kilometres reconstructed Mariam Babangida Way in Asaba, Oshimili South Council and the 7.5 kilometres Ogwashi-Uku/Ubulu-Unor Road in Aniocha South Council Area of Delta State. Tambuwa, who accompanied Governor Ifeanyi Okowa ...
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