Following the claim by the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, alleging that the former President Goodluck Jonathan administration shared N150bn during the runup to the 2015 election, bestselling author and former aide to Jonathan, Pastor Reno Omokri, described the allegation as false.

The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has built a N354million Technology Orientation Centre, TOC, which will serve as a research and development (R&D) hub to boost locally made science and engineering products in the country.

very security agency is power drunk and allocates power to itself. In most cases, they work to achieve individual goals instead of national interest. What is the justification for National Peace Corps? Even those fighting for it now are doing so for selfish purposes. I am sure that the politicians who want the President to sign the Bill are doing so because of their re-election.

ABUJA – The United States Agency for International Development, USAID, the World Health Organisation, WHO, and other stakeholders in the Stop Tuberculosis (TB) Partnership, on Tuesday, deliberated on ways to ensure increased financing to end TB scourge in Nigeria.

Decades ago, mothers across Nigeria ensured that their female children were circumcised, an obnoxious practice. Many live with the scar today. Although the mothers regarded Female Genital Mutilation, FGM, as a traditional practice they vowed to protect, others believed it was one way of preventing the girl-child from becoming promiscuous.   Other reasons given were to protect family honour, hygiene, virginity; modification of socio-sexual attitudes (countering failure of a woman to attain orgasm); increasing sexual pleasure of the husband; enhancing fertility and increasing matrimonial opportunities among others. Contrary to these views, however, the World Health Organisation, WHO, says FGM has no health benefits for girls and women.