The sum of N37.2 million has been earmarked by Fidson Healthcare Plc as reward for its customers in a reward scheme tagged: ‘Astymin Get Alert campaign’ to celebrate the brand at 15.

Five million naira is up for grab as the God’s Children Great Talent, GCGT, is set to kick start the season 6 of its annual gospel talent contest

NIGERIAN Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has put in place some plans that will help increase the country’s earnings on non-oil export to $30billion from the $2.7billion it currently stands even as the Council and the Ministry of Agriculture have evolve ways to transform the nation’s economy.

Less than a month after Governor Rochas Okorocha sacked 3,000 workers, the state government has dissolved the Board of Internal Revenue, BIR, warning that no revenue staff should henceforth, collect taxes from individuals without due approval from the appropriate authorities.

AS the present administration intensifies efforts to drive the economy through agriculture, the Nigerian Export Promotion Council, NEPC and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, yesterday, proffered ways to transform the sector as a key sector for job creation, food security and foreign exchange earner

Anambra State Government yesterday said it would construct four specially designed motor parks for trucks in four border towns in the state as part of measures to restrict their movement.

WIFE of the Lagos State Governor, Mrs Bolanle Ambode, has identified prayer as the key to solving the sundry challenges confronting the country. She made the submission at the prayer for the Nation 2016, organized by Fatimah Charity Foundation, a non-governmental organization, at the Muson Centre, Onikan, Lagos. Bolanle noted that although the country was facing a number of challenges like many countries of the world, fervent prayers to God would speedily resolve them.

Winners of First-Ever Global Humanitarian Awards for Women’s and Children’s Health Honored Nusa Dua, Indonesia (25 January 2016) – His Excellency Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, President of the Republic of Indonesia, and thousands of government, health and development leaders from around the world gathered today in Indonesia for the opening of the fourth International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP).

As Nigeria continued to battle the recent outbreak of Lassa fever in the country, a renowned Pharmacist, and governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos, Mr. Olujimi Agbaje has blamed the difficulty in containing the outbreak of Lassa fever on poor health system among other issues affecting smooth access to quality care.

The Town Hall meeting, which was in fulfillment of his electoral promise to Lagosians on inclusive governance, is aimed at informing the people of his achievements in the last three months in particular; his administration’s plans, policies and programmes as well as getting the people to support and contribute to the various programmes and activities of the government.

THE face off between the authorities of the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA and the National Officers of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities SSANU and the institution’s chapter of the Non-Academic Staff of Universities, NASU, is taking its toll on over 600 pupils of the University staff primary School. Members of the two unions have downed tools since the crisis started thereby paralyzing most activities in the institution. They have vowed to fight the authorities until it rescinds the “ offensive circular”.

The visit of the newly crowned Ooni of Ife, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, to Oyo early in the year to felicitate with Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi on the occasion of his 45th coronation anniversary has definitely opened a new vitsa on the much sought after unity of the Yoruba race. Barely two weeks after the historic visit of the revered monarch to the ancient town of Oyo, Ekiti state governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose, also paid a surprise visit to his Osun state counterpart, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, at the Okefia Government House, Osogbo.

Until the late Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Samuel Odulana Odugade 1 joined his ancestors 10 days ago, no one in his wildest imagination could think that the orderly arranged ascendancy to the throne of Olubadan could be enmeshed in this kind of crisis. Hitherto, many had thought the rancour-free arrangement of the titles was the best in the South West . However, unfolding events in the traditional council of the ancient city have shown that ‘the rich also cry’.

I’ve spent the past three months in London. And while I was away, I regularly received phone calls from friends and relatives who are based in various Nigerian states. Some of these friends and relatives are staunch PDP sympathisers who voted for ex-President Jonathan during last year’s election, while others are staunch APC sympathisers who voted for President Buhari

Lagos State Commissioner for Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Lola Akande, has called on the federal and state governments to promulgate laws and policies that would boost women sources of income/capital. Akande stated that such laws should be promulgated at the federal level and replicated in states, to boost women’s financial capacity in order to grow their productivity, which will automatically translate into national productivity.