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The destruction of health facilities and personnel by Boko Haram insurgents in North East has denied children of being immunised against cholera and other child-killer diseases. Forty-six per cent of health facilities in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe are either fully ...

Anglican bishop, HURIWA urge suspension of payment Labour unions in Ekiti State have urged Governor Kayode Fayemi to use the Paris Club refund to pay workers’ salary arrears, gratuities and pensions. The union leaders said that the labour would beam ...

The outgoing chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum (NGF), Kashim Shettima, in Kaduna hinted of moves by the body to reconcile his Kano counterpart, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, and Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II. Responding to media reports that quoted him to ...

Economists have revealed ways to boost the non-oil revenue in the country. Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG)’s Fiscal Policy Roundtable through its Citizens Perception Report, yesterday, urged government to establish an Office of Tax Simplification (OTS), among other recommendations, to ...

Unknown gunmen have abducted five oil workers in Akuku-Toru Council of Rivers State. It was learnt that the victims were working within the OML-55 operational area of an indigenous oil company, Belemaoil Producing Limited (BPL), when the bandits struck and ...

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has said that the northeast state is safer than the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and other states in the north. Shettima disclosed this before the House of Representatives Committee on Army at the Government ...

Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) have thrown their weight behind the implementation of financial autonomy for states’ legislature and judiciary, to ensure Nigeria attains high level transparency in governance. Speaking at the opening of a two-day conference on the implementation of ...

Senior Special Assistant to Edo State Governor on Anti-Human Trafficking Issues, Solomon Okoduwa, has said that the state government is committed to the welfare and reintegration of returned migrants from Libya. Okoduwa spoke at the end of an empowerment programme ...

Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, has described the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) as one of the leading centres in health services and training institutions in the country. Besides, Gowon and the National Chairman of the All ...

Deputy speaker of Imo State House of Assembly, Ugonna Ozurigbo, has resigned. The resignation came a day after the speaker, Acho Ihim, was suspended and less than a month to the expiration of the eighth assembly. Ozurigbo said he resigned ...