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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT) has raised a five-man committee to resolve the crisis emanating from the emergence of Ndudi Elumelu as Minority Leader of the House of Representatives. BoT Chairman, Senator Walid Jibrin, who briefed the ...
Read More »Cross River seeks N5b for LG workers salaries as labour, opposition kick against assembly’s approval
Worried by the inability to access local government funds as a result of the result recent policy of the NFIU, the Cross River State Government is seeking a N5b loan. Already, 2018 reports of Economic Confidential had put the state’s ...
Read More »Thugs attack Kogi councils over non-implementation of NFIU directive
Suspected political thugs yesterday attacked some leaders of Adavi Council chapter of the National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) and Medical and Health Workers Union (MHWU) in Kogi State, leaving them with various degrees of injuries. They were protesting ...
Read More »Experts raise hope for breast cancer survivors, canvass early checks, detention and care
Some medical experts have raised hope of survival for breast cancer patients if the affected persons could adopt self-discipline in their lifestyles, as a preventive measure and early detection to avert death. An oncologist, Dr. Brenda Nwamuo, who disclosed this ...
Read More »Nigeria needs N19.46b to prevent 70,327 cancer deaths yearly, $300m to end TB by 2030
To prevent losing 70,327 lives to cancer yearly, Nigeria needs over N19.46b for prevention, diagnosis and treatment, hospice and palliative care, advocacy, data management and research, as well as governance and finance. The National Cancer Control Plan (NCCP) 2018 –2022, ...
Read More »US group arrives Nigeria, partners Federal Government on insecurity
A United States-based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Newstime International has offered to partner the Federal Government and Nigerians to end insurgency that has claimed several lives and property. The faith-based group with Christians, Moslems and other religions as members, insisted that ...
Read More »Ex-IYC president Edengs Eradiri joins Bayelsa governorship race
The number of aspirants eyeing the Bayelsa gubernatorial ticket continues to snowball as a former President of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Edengs Eradiri, joins the race. Eradiri, who is the state’s Commissioner for Youths, was unveiled when a coalition ...
Read More »Retirees lambaste ‘embarrassing’ screening exercise in Cross River State
No fewer than 600 pensioners including an 85-year old man have decried the current screening exercise for retirees in Cross River State, describing it as embarrassing and the worst experience for them in recent times. Some of the pensioners, who ...
Read More »We have no land for Ruga, S’East governors insist, want cattle transported by road to markets
Governors of the South East region have denied allocating any portion of land for the Ruga Fulani herdsmen settlement, even as they promised to tolerate herdsmen who carry out peaceful trade. In a statement, the director-general of the South-East Governors’ ...
Read More »You can’t threaten me with suspension, Abbo tells panel as Senate recommends death penalty for child rape
Senator Elisha Abbo engaged the Senate Committee probing his alleged assault on a nursing woman at a sex toyshop in Abuja in a shouting match. Trouble started when Abbo appeared before the panel, but declined to comment on the matter ...
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