The New Experience Newspapers Online News Indepth, Analysis and More

The Senate has resolved to henceforth engage donor agencies that give humanitarian assistance to Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in the country to make commitments to accountability on their donations. It said it would do this through the National Planning Commission ...

The Edo Government has insisted that the House of Representatives lacked the constitutional powers to shut the state House of Assembly. The Governor Godwin Obaseki administration was responding to a resolution of the lower chamber of the National Assembly ordering ...

The Senate has passed a resolution urging the Federal Government to redouble efforts towards extending the nation’s continental shelf. Citing Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), Nigeria, had in May 2009, written ...

Leader of National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), Chief Ayo Opadokun, has called for street action to achieve political justice in the country. The political activist made the call while delivering a lecture on ‘Political Injustice’ at the 2019 National Civil Leadership ...

Young Progressive Forum of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Southeast has threatened to mobilise against the House of Representatives speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, for appointing an opposition member as his special assistant on political matters. Leader of the group, ...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under its Sustaining Health Outcomes through the Private Sector Plus (SHOPS Plus) TB Programme has developed a mobile application that will help health workers easily detect and report TB cases to the ...

Experts have advocated a paradigm shift in handling the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act to fully maximise its benefits of tackling corruption in the country. The experts from the academics, law, civil society groups and public officials spoke at a ...

As the rainy season peaks with imminent flooding in some states, experts have alerted to further rise in cases of cholera, Lassa fever (LF), Wild Polio Virus (WPV) and malaria. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in its national ...

The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has disclosed that it screened and treated about 20,000 persons from oil-bearing communities in Ohaji, Imo State of various ailments under its Community Care Programme. SPDC’s Clinical Governance Lead, Dr. Ufuoma Ovwigho, stated this ...

The Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA) has cautioned that Nigeria risks being a dumping ground with President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent signing of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) Director General of NECA, Timothy Olawale who spoke to journalists after ...