Kwara State Government in partnership with Nuvasive Spine Foundation, USA, has commenced free spine surgery for 20 indigent patients at Sobi Specialist Hospital, Ilorin.

By GBENGA OLARINOYE, Osogbo REtirees of the Obafemi Awolowo University OAU, Ile Ife Osun state under the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, have called on the Federal Government to review the scheme to give succor to those that have served their country faithfully and selflessly. At a briefing in Osogbo on activities lined up to mark […]

TWENTY-FOUR hours after President Goodluck Jonathan raised a 13-man National Conference Advisory Committee, leading ethnic nationalities and other groups in the country have started consultations with a view to presenting their agenda to the panel. Vanguard also gathered that the different geo-political zones of the country may also meet to strategise and marshall their demands.

President Goodluck Jonathan’s decision to convoke a National Conference has been described as the most courageous step ever taken by any Nigerian leader, particularly in the quest to tackle the ‘national question.’

DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has said the state University Teaching Hospital, Oghara, will start kidney transplant by February 2014.

The nation’s learning resource company, Learn Africa Plc, has congratulated the National Examinations Council (NECO) and the candidates that sat for the NECO June/July 2013 Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (SSCE) on the Significant improvement recorded in the performance of students and the reduction in the incidence of examination malpractice.

The Rivers State Government has flagged-off its 2013 Free Education Project. The flagging-off ceremony took place at the Dr.Christie Toby Model Primary School, Elekahia, Liberation Stadium in Port Harcourt.

Lagos State Triathlon Association said yesterday that it expects well over 600 particiants from schools, clubs and the military in this year’s Triathlon fiesta which comes up on Saturday and Sunday at Teslim Balogun Stadium Lagos.

Worried by the high rate of youth unemployment in the state, Delta State Government is to employ over 20,000 youths in the next five years through the Small Public Works sub-component of the State Employment and Expenditure for Results, SEEFOR, Project.

AHEAD of the 2015 general elections, concerned citizens of Owan Federal Constituency in Edo State have expressed reservations over the continued adherence to the rotational arrangement between Owan West and Owan East local governments in the choice of who represents the area in the House of Representatives.

FCMB Group has disclosed that it has committed over $275 million to the power sector reform and the value chain opportunities in Nigeria.

An Ikeja High Court has fixed October 23 for judgment in the case of a couple, Elochukwu and Chiamaka Nnajiofor, accused of murdering their 14-year-old housemaid.

The Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji has called for concerted efforts by Nigerians to end the spate of bloodletting that is heating up the polity of the country.

The decision of the Federal Government to change the University of Lagos UNILAG, to Moshood Abiola University has been reverted, UNILAG Vice-Chancellor, Professor Rahamon Ade Bello has said. He disclosed this during the UNILAG Advancement Alumni cocktail/dinner held at Sheraton Hotel, Lagos on Saturday.

AN FCT High Court in Jabi, Abuja, have sentenced a soldier, Kabiru Abdullahi, to death by hanging for killing one Musa Tanko.