ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has rejected the ongoing Sexual Harrassment Offences Bill, in the Senate, saying that the bill was targeted at lecturers.

The Caretaker Committee chairman of Ogba/Ebema/Ndoni Local GovernmentArea of Rivers State, Mr. Isaac Umejuru, has warned youths to shun cultism, saying his administration will not tolerate such menace.

There was confusion at the Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja, yesterday, after Harold Building, a major building in the hotel, was gutted by fire, destroying property worth several millions of Naira

Movement for Democratic Equity, MDE, has commended the ingenuity of the Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa for embarking on the Uduophori/Patani road project Phase I in spite of the harsh economic reality.

A 19-year-old man has been charged for trying to grab a police officer’s gun at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas in a bid to kill the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

APC candidate, Godwin Obaseki Sunday met with the deputy governor of the state, Dr. Pius Odubu seeking for his support ahead the September 10, 2016, governorship election.

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, has approved the extension of the appointment of Dr. Peter Singabele as the State Head of Service.

Tope Mark-Odigie, a renowned transformational speaker and award-winning television host, is making waves not only in the world of entrepreneurship but also through her impactful initiatives in the beauty industry. With five years of experience as a television host, Tope has seamlessly transitioned her passion for societal growth into innovative solutions that address unemployment, behavioural transformation, […]

The Federal High Court, Lagos Division, yesterday, restrained NICON Investment Limited, Global Fleet Oil and Gas Limited and Mr Jimoh Ibrahim from dealing with any assets or funds belonging to NICON Investment, Global Fleet Oil and other assets.

Nigeria’S earnings from crude oil and gas, Petroleum Profit Tax (PPT) and Royalties declined by 34.1 percent, to N205.05 billion in the first quarter of 2016, according to data released by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. The CBN, in its Economic Report for the First Quarter of 2016, indicated that the country earned N396.47 billion from the sale of crude oil and gas, PPT and Royalties, as against N601.52 billion recorded in the fourth quarter of 2015.

How do your children react each time you call them? Do you know that ignoring your calls sometimes may be sign or beginning of a medical condition in the child? In the views of a professor of Speech and Hearing Rehabilitation, and President, Speech Pathology and Audiology Association of Nigeria, SPAAN, Professor Julius Ademokoya, there is need for parents not to misinterpret their children’s refusal to answer their calls as stubbornness because it may signal dangers of hearing disorder.

A Professor of Radiotherapy & Oncology, Professor Abayomi Durosinmi-Etti, has raised alarm over the rising cases of cancer in Nigeria and urged Nigerians to take proactive measures against the scourge. Speaking during the inaugural lecture of the University of Lagos, that focused on cancer (the big ‘C’), Durosinmi-Etti, a Consultant Radiotherapist and Oncologist, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, said many Nigerians may be living with cancer without knowing.

lagos—A Federal High Court in Lagos, yesterday, granted bail to a former Special Adviser on Domestic Affairs to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Warpamo Dudafa, in the sum of N500 million. Justice Mohammed Idris granted him the bail with three sureties in like sum.

The Federal Government is yet to show sincerity in its diversification plan of the economy, the Managing Director, Financial Derivatives Limited, Mr. Bismarck Rewane, said. Rewane, who stated this at a public symposium on performance of President Buhari’s administration, said that Nigerians should not be deceived by what we call asymmetric data, which tells you that the economic activity has been diversified. That is the kind of propagandist literature for the past five months.

DEVELOPMENTAL enslavement is historically the worst form of underdevelopment anywhere in the globe. From 1480 – 2016, the Ijaws, statistically the fourth largest ethnic group in Nigeria, are still in the firm grip of developmental enslavement in Nigeria. This explains why emancipation struggles by the Ijaws have put on a Marxist and revolutionary colouration in the Niger Delta. 536 years is enough for any group to appropriate and adopt confrontational philosophy in the struggle to break this suffocating enclosure.