By Henry Umoru ABUJA – FORMER Federal Commissioner of Information, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday described the unfolding political scenario in Bauchi that culminated in the sack of the deputy governor, Alhaji Garba Mohammed Gadi as a display of shame by the state governor, Mallam Isa Yuguda, just as he said the governor is a disgrace […]

By Emeka Mamah Kaduna – Shouts of Allah akbah! Allah akbah! (God is great) filled  the air, yesterday, in Kaduna when all the 14 passengers in a commercial bus, which plunged into River Kaduna were rescued alive. The bus, said to have moved from Kawo, was going  to Sabon Tasha through Kasua (Central Market along […]

It was when he got up for the next guy to take his turn that they discovered the bed was covered in blood! Shit! One of them screamed. She is a virgin, cried another; as if they were rehearsing a script. Frantically, they pulled me up and one of them threw me a towel while another went about packing the bed sheets from the bed.

By Daniel Idonor ABUJA-THE Presidency yesterday distanced itself from claims that the authorities of Equatorial Guinea and Angola where Mr Hery Okah was arrested for gun running before his repatriation and subsequent detention in Nigeria were not properly briefed on the grant of amnesty to him and others by President Umaru Yar’Adua before his release […]

…to sanction erring officials By Oscarline Onwuemenyi Abuja – THE Presidency is “very angry” over the poor implementation of capital budgets by ministries, departments and agencies of government, according to the Director-General of the Bureau of Public Procurement, Engr. Emeka Ezeh. Ezeh, who was speaking yesterday during a meeting with civil society organisations in Abuja, […]

The long neglect to health financing in the country has been identified as one of the major factors militating against efficient health care delivery services in the country.

THE world could be on the verge of a discovery that could provide the necessary avenues for understanding the widely variable nature of rheumatoid arthritis and open the door for new and improved treatment approach for the disorder.

IN furtherance of its commitment to reduce the burden of malaria among children and further deliver on its promise of kicking malaria out of Nigeria and Africa at large, Vestergaard Frandsen, makers of PermaNet, the Long Lasting Insecticide Treated mosquito Net (LLITN) has announced a nationwide consumer promo tagged, “Back to School Promo.”

There was a mild drama yesterday before a Tinubu magistrate’s court, in Lagos Island, hearing the case of threat to life of Mr. Gbenga Adefaye, Vanguard Newspapers General Manager, (Publication), when the two handsets earlier seized from the two accused persons and admitted as court’s exhibits failed to work.

The Lagos State Traditional Medicine Board has been urged to initiate research on traditional medicine with a view resolving some efficacy problems arising from the practice of herbal medicine.