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The Federal Government has assured of producing more female seafarers with a view to exploring their potential in shipping for national development. It stressed the need for collaboration between the private and public sectors to review existing policies that would ...

Medical experts have raised the alarm over increasing cases of drug misuse and addiction in the country, blaming it on mental health issues that were left undiagnosed and untreated. Speaking at the symposium on practical solutions to combat substance abuse ...

Three communities in Akuku-Toru Council of Rivers State staged a protest in Port Harcourt yesterday against alleged involvement of Governor Nyesom Wike in their confrontations with Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in the OML 25 oilfield. Belema, Ngeje and Offoin-Ama ...

 About 47 million Nigerians or 24.4 per cent of Nigeria’s population still defecate openly, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said. Nigeria, it added, ranked second on the world behind India among those still practising open defecation. Making the declaration ...

The latest Lassa fever outbreak report indicates that since the onset of the 2019 episode, there have been 132 deaths, with case fatality ratio (CFR) of 22.3 per cent in confirmed cases. Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), in its ...

Retirees in Osun State protested in Osogbo against non-payment of their 13 months pension arrears and other outstanding entitlement owed by the state government. Armed with placards with various inscriptions as, EFCC Should Probe Rauf Aregbesola; Retirees Are Dying; Pension, Gratuity ...

President of International Women Society (IWS), Nkoli Ogbolu, has urged the federal government to make legislation that will protect and empower the widows. Speaking yesterday at the IWS Skills Acquisition Centre, Lekki, Lagos, to mark the International Widows Day (IWD), ...

Anglican bishop of Egbu Diocese in Owerri, Imo State, Geoffrey Okorafor, has condemned in strong terms the turban of Abia North Senatorial District, Orji Uzor Kalu, as an Emir. Okorafor stated this at a Eucharistic Service of Confirmation, Admission and ...

The Committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff (CCDS) of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has restated their resolve to curb terrorism in the region. It explained that it would recommend a special summit of the ECOWAS Authority of ...

In a bid to prevent crimes on the nation’s railway corridor, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has deployed K9 assets to all railway stations across the country. Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, disclosed this at the commencement of ...