On June 22, the All Progressives Congress (APC) is expected to hold its primary election to pick its candidate for the 2020 governorship election in Edo State fixed for September.

Dr Ilenre Austin Emuan is a chartered architect, development expert, environmentalist, an advocate for moral economy and bi-culturalism and former governorship aspirant of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State.

A performance and life coach, Abiola ‘Champ’ Salami, has warned that the absence of sound emotional and mental health among the people in this Covid-19 pandemic era may trigger a bigger challenge if not checked.

Varied reactions greeted Friday’s roll-out of guidelines for Lagos State post-lock down businesses re-opening by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

THE National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has said that police and other security agencies engaged in human rights violations including extortion during the lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus.

They have been surrendering in droves of late. And their stories of recruitment and surrender have been as outlandish as they are intriguing.

South-West is leading other regions in the number of coronavirus confirmed cases across the nation, statistics from the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) as of last Thursday, May 21 has shown.

In this interview, the Deputy Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Toby Okechukwu, representing Aninri/Awgu/Orji River Federal Constituency of Enugu State, speaks on what the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and the Presidential Task Force, PTF, on COVID-19 pandemic should do to set Nigeria free of the virus.

REVEREND Father Anselm Gbenga Adodo is a scholar and a pioneer of alternative medicine in Africa. He is also a Benedictine monk and priest of the Roman Catholic Church in Edo State. He founded Nigeria’s first alternative medicine and research laboratory enterprise in Nigeria known as Pax Herbal Clinic and Research Laboratories in Ewu, Edo State in 1997.

The Taliban announced a three-day ceasefire during the Eid al-Fitr holiday starting Sunday in a surprise move following months of bloody fighting with Afghan forces after the group signed a landmark agreement with the United States. President Ashraf Ghani swiftly welcomed the insurgents’ offer and ordered his forces to also comply, while the US envoy […]

Professor Maurice Iwu, a former Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman and currently the Chairman, Imo State government instituted COVID-19 management committee, is a medical scientist and majored in pharmacognosy at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

Following the news that Nigeria was taking delivery of COVID-19 drug manufactured by Madagascar, experts in the country’s pharmaceutical industry are worried.

England’s Premier League on Saturday said that two more individuals from two different clubs have tested positive for coronavirus, just three weeks from a proposed restart of the season. In all, 996 players and club staff were tested over three days last week for COVID-19. “Of these, two have tested positive from two clubs,” said […]

Government officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have denied any manipulation of its figures for coronavirus cases and deaths. The controversy came as health officials announced DR Congo’s latest COVID-19 figures which stand at 63 deaths from 2,025 cases, most of them in the capital, Kinshasa. So far, 312 people have recovered. The vast […]

This feature story discusses the simplicity and confidentiality of the new test kit for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus The numbers The Human Immunodeficiency Virus is one of the widespread diseases that have resulted in high mortality rate in the world. Since discovery in 1983, about 75m people have been infected globally, with about 32m deaths, […]