Months after agitation for the assent of the Revised National Health Bill trailed it’s passage by the Senate, healthcare professionals have commended President Goodluck Jonathan for signed the much awaited Bill into law. However, they urged the Federal government to ensure quick implementation of the Act.

In commemoration of World AIDS Day 2014, Coca-Cola Nigeria Limited in partnership with Friends Africa (Friends of the Global Fund Africa), a pan-African NGO, organised a week long HIV/AIDS outreach in Lagos, enabling about 4,000 persons to take the HIV test.

A YEAR after the Lagos State Government released a white paper to checkmate the storage and sale of firecrackers; there was still no dull moment at the Lagos Island markets where these products were sold especially as the Yuletide draws near.

Wale Ogunjimi and his fiancee, Roseline Barnabas recently got what they never bargained for. Two weeks to their wedding, they were robbed at gun point at the popular Idumota market where they had gone to do the shopping for their wedding, The windscreen and windows of their Honda Civic car were smashed by the die-hard robbers who dispossessed them of their phones, I-Pad and ATM cards.

By Uche Onyebadi IT is not easy for any country to tell the world that it engages in some form of torture in breach of international conventions against inflicting brutality on other human beings in order to extract information from them for whatever reason. It is even more unlikely that a country would publicly do […]

The Ogun State faction of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, loyal to a chieftain of the party, Buruji Kashamu, yesterday, discontinued the contempt proceedings against former governor of the state, Gbenga Daniel before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos.

The Lagos State Police Command, yesterday, banned the use of fire works in the state during the Yuletide season, threatening to deal with any defaulter within the ambit of the law.

The falling oil price has taken its toll on the rig count in Nigeria and its West African oil producing neighbours as the region recorded an eight percent decline in rig utilisation in the month of November.

Embattled Chairman of Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area, Enugu State, Mr. Bonaventure Onuh and his Vice, Mr. Celestine Ezeugwu, have been impeached for alleged gross misconduct and embezzlement of public funds.

Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company Plc (Ikeja Disco) has upgraded its systems to enhance secure, convenient and more efficient payment options.