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The Federal Government and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have stepped up efforts to eradicate tropical diseases in 10 local councils of Cross River and over 490 other areas across the federation. Speaking during a meeting at ...

 Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Soyata Maiga has agreed to ‘take appropriate actions’ on request by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) to sue South Africa over xenophobic attacks on other Africans. The development, analysts ...

A driver has been confirmed dead and six students of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) injured in a head-on-collision involving a Vectra car and a Sharon bus along the Bauchi-Jos highway in Miri village, few kilometers away from the Bauchi State capital. Public ...

Global divestments from fossil fuel to cleaner energy sources have assumed an upbeat dimension with pledges in that regard crossing the $11 trillion mark. To celebrate the feat, the campaigners and sympathisers alike popularised the “$11T and Counting: New goals ...

The Defence Headquarters has denied the claim by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) that the Nigerian armed forces were arbitrarily detaining children in detention facilities across the North East. In a statement, yesterday by Acting Director, Defence Information, Colonel Onyema ...

The Department of State Services (DSS) has said some groups were plotting to undermine the nation’s security, peace and unity. Its spokesperson, Peter Afunaya, in a statement claimed that the plotters were determined to exploit political differences and other events ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency on the nation’s education sector, insisting that except the industry was fixed,  “our problems may be multiplying.” Its national president, Professor Biodun ...

Dutch oil major, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), has deplored a 10,000 barrels daily oil theft on its pipelines. It’s General Manager, External Relations, Igo Weli, said the economic sabotage amounts to over N2.2 million every 24 hours. He said the ...

The Managing Director of The Nigerian Ports Authority NPA Hadiza Bala Usman,  has said it would stop at nothing in promoting professionalism, enhancing the welfare and wellbeing of its staffers who it believes are crucial to the country’s attainment of ...

The current Director-General/CEO of NIMASA, Nigeria’s principal maritime regulatory authority, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, who doubles as chairman of the Association of African Maritime Administrations AAMA, has been in the vanguard of developing and harnessing the blue economic potential in the ...