The advantages of family planning cannot be overemphasised both in terms of individual and societal good. Besides helping the woman to maintain a healthier lifestyle, it helps to harness and manage family resources better, while on a broader perspective, societies can control population explosion, as well as improve socio-economic infrastructure of their people. It is pure common sense and logic which has helped many economies across the world to thrive better.

President Goodluck Jonathan will on Monday in Abuja host the 46th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, his office said in a statement on Sunday.

A chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara, Sen. Gbemisola Saraki, on Sunday donated N1 million to the victims of Nov. 3 fire disaster in Bode Saadu in Moro Local Government area of the state.

Minecraft , a cultural phenomenon, with more than 100 million players across the world now comes . to Windows Phone 8.1, giving Windows Phone users the ability to play one of the world’s most popular games while on the move.

Microsoft in partnership with 88mph, at the weekend announced the expansion of the Microsoft Ventures program into Nigeria.

As part of the 4Afrika Initiative, the collaboration is expected to help improve startups’ productivity by offering tools, resources, expertise and routes to market around the world.

The Head of Netherlands Representation in Lagos, Mr Michel Deelen, on Sunday said that his government planned to provide Nigerian farmers with technical assistance to increase their crops production.

TWENTY four hours to House of Representatives resumption, members of the opposition All Progressives Congress ,APC impeachment plot against President Jonathan gathers momentum.

A chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-East, Osita Okechukwu, has accused Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha of allegedly gambling with the chances of the Ndigbo to bargain for Vice President slot in the 2015 general elections, noting that his (Okorocha) failure contributed in weakening that opportunity.

Watchers of the political drama that attended the emergence of Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa as the standard bearer of Peoples’ Democratic Party’s in the 2015 governorship race will not forget in a hurry the palpable fear that pervaded the atmosphere at the Event centre, Asaba, the venue of the governorship primaries held on December 8, 2014.

God has spared my life on several occasions, thereby giving me a second chance to turn a new leaf. But, I have been recalcitrant. I wonder if I would come out of this alive.”
This was the exact words of Ugochukwu Felix, 28, a self-confessed member of a five-man robbery gang that has been terrorizing Ajegunle, Apapa and its environs.