President Goodluck Jonathan has given a directive to the Federal Ministry of Health to convert the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, in Abakaliki to a Federal Teaching Hospital as a way of stimulating the growth of medicine and provision of a standard research centre for students in the state.
The Rivers State Government has said that the state will this year, witness rains that are three times higher than that of last year and would elicit unprecedented flooding of certain parts of the state.
A 32-year-old surveyor living at FHA lugbe Abuja, Taye Hassan was, yesterday, arraigned before an Abuja magistrate court for beating up his landlord, following a minor disagreement between them.
Scores of Nigerians resident in Dallas, capital of the State of Texas were at the Double Tree Hotel on Thursday morning to receive players and officials of the Nigeria national football team, Super Eagles as the delegation landed in the United States of America.
With the support from the software giant, Microsoft, Standard Chartered Bank Plc, United Kingdom Trade and Investment, UKTI, Airline Services Ltd, among others, the Paradigm Initiative Nigeria, (PIN) yesterday in Lagos hosted the second town hall meeting and graduation ceremony of the Ajegunle.org project.
The project which was also supported by Nigerian Bottling Company, the [...]
Tragedy struck in Lagos, early morning Wednesday when one of the Police Cadets, who recently passed out from Ikeja Police College, lost his life in a ghastly motor accident.
TWO months to the general elections, the two major political parties in Ondo State, Labour Party (LP) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are battling to put their houses in order following the acrimony that attended their primaries.
The stakeholders in the Nigerian maritime industry, their agents, transport haulage operators and other port users have been urged to maintain the peace at sea ports, airports, and land border stations as they go about their legitimate businesses of import processes and clearance.
Some concerned indigenes of the riverine community of Igbomotoru in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, have expressed concern over the increasing rate of illegal local refinery activities in the area.
THE Dr Samuel Ogbemudia led Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, has bemoaned what it described as alleged failure of some members of the party in the state to obey court orders, hinting that it would not hesitate to fill the relevant forms that would land those concerned party members in jail
THE Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu, yesterday, ordered the setting up of a new Election Petition Tribunal to hear petitions arising from the February 2010 gubernatorial elections in Anambra State
The National Sports Commission (NSC) have described the loss of the FIFA executive committee seat by Nigeria’s Ibrahim Galadima as a big blow.
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, yesterday, apprehended two suspected drug traffickers over unlawful exportation of 3.250 kilogrammes of cocaine to Europe at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja.
THE consumer is king. Bankers are seeing the other side of kingly consumers. Some bank debtors are refusing to meet their obligations. They are not even willing to enter the normal banker-client negotiations on terms of redeeming the situation.
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