Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has faulted the Federal Government’s decision to increase the workers’ Pay As You Earn, PAYE, tax, pension and National Housing Fund (NHF) deductions, which were applied on gross salary, making some of the workers to have as much 30 per cent reduction in salary.

A group of Australian students successfully reproduced an active ingredient for a life-saving, anti-parasitic drug called pyrimethamine, the active ingredient in Daraprim (once used as an antimalarial, now primarily used to treat toxoplasmosis and cystoisosporiasis) for just $2 per dose. The drug’s current list price is $750 a dose.

Technical Adviser of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr has said that Sunderland forward Victor Anichebe will be a part of his next invitees to the team.

THE Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has commended Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State for his interest and intensive awareness campaign and promotion for Made- in-Aba products, saying that he is reviving the pride and uniqueness of Aba.

Anger flared in the land last night, following a strident attempt by the Minister of Education, Alhaji Adamu Adamu’s move to resuscitate the defunct Northern Nigeria Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies,NBAIS, using funds from the federation account.

GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, weekend, described the faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, led by Alhaji Modu Sheriff as spoilers.

Yola—Four policemen and a civilian guard attached to the Deputy Governor of Adamawa State, Mr. Martins Babale, are been quizzed at the state’s Criminal Investigation Department, CID, for allegedly stealing relief materials donated to internally-displaced persons, IDPs, in various camps in the state. The missing items include bags of 50kg parboiled rice, jerry cans of […]

In a bid to make this year’s World AIDS Day highly impactful, the Nigeria Red Ribbon Coalition, a strategic public-private sector alliance, organised a novelty football match yesterday in Lagos to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and also provide free HIV Testing and Counselling services.

The 1963 constitution recognised the role of traditional rulers in our country for it gave automatic membership to the legislature to certain traditional rulers

The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, PTAD, has cleared the arrears owed 4,438 pensioners in the North-West and South-East zones of the country, bringing to an end years of suffering that had become their lot.