The National Orientation Agency (NOA) and United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) have expressed concern over child mortality rate in the South East, describing it as alarming. They, however, argued that the situation could be reversed if mothers and caregivers ...
Read More »Group vows to expose northern governor behind RevolutionNow
A coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has vowed to expose a northern governor from the North West who it said, masterminded the Northern version of RevolutionNow protests and anti-cabal demonstrations earlier held in the region. It disclosed that the governor ...
Read More »Nigeria begins documentation for ARCC’s WPV-free certification as Edo moves to address health challenges
The Federal Government is marking three years without a Wild Polio Virus (WPV) case in the country and expressed confidence that by March 2020 Nigeria would be certified as polio-free. Consequently, the country has commenced the process of documentation for ...
Read More »Ortom condemns attack on Nasarawa deputy gov’s convoy
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has condemned the attack by an unknown gun on the convoy of Nasarawa State Deputy Governor Emmanuel Akabe along the Lafia-Abuja highway. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase, the governor described ...
Read More »Lagos pledges speedy execution of affordable housing schemes
The Lagos State Government has promised to speedily complete all ongoing housing schemes to provide shelter for the teeming population. Commissioner for Housing, Maruf Akinderu-Fatai, who addressed reporters yesterday in Ikeja, stressed that the private sector’s participation would be strengthened ...
Read More »Presidency retains Femi Adesina, Garba Shehu, Laolu Akande as spokesmen
President Muhammadu Buhari has reappointed Femi Adesina and Garba Shehu as Special Adviser and Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity. He also sanctioned the re-appointment of Laolu Akande as Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Vice President ...
Read More »Immigrants, traders, others groan as Nigeria closes borders over insecurity
The closure of Nigeria’s land borders to check banditry, terrorism, smuggling, proliferation of small arms and light weapons and related criminal activities may have begun taking toll in earnest on immigrants, traders, commuters, customs agents, forwarders and other maritime stakeholders, ...
Read More »Electronic transmission of election results illegal, INEC insists as presidential tribunal hears final addresses, reserves ruling
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has maintained that there was no extant law backing the electronic transmission of election results and as such, it could not have imported the outcome of the February 23, 2019 presidential poll into a ...
Read More »IKOTUN DIVISION RESCUES MAN,WIFE BEATEN BY POLARIS BANK SECURITY.
A young couple who were manhandled by Polaris Bank Security team of a mobile Policeman and an internal security officer yesterday for simply seeking to know how 97,000 disappeared from their account have been rescued by men of the Ikotun ...
Read More »PAN IGBO GROUP MOVES TO CONSOLIDATE UNITY,SUPPORT IN LAGOS
A prominent pan Igbo socio-cultural group, Ndigbo Buru Otu Association of Nigeria, yesterday mobilised a large number of its people which comprised mostly the executives and patrons, for what could be best described as a unity and support move. The ...
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