Dr Chizoba Wonodi , a Public Health Physician and Researcher, says the  coronavirus vaccine is  the panacea  to end the pandemic. Wonodi, who is also the Nigeria Country Director for the International Vaccine Access Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, spoke with the  News Agency of   Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on […]

By David Odama – Lafia Nasarawa State Government, Friday, expressed its willingness to key into the Contributory Pension Scheme of the Federal Government to address the prevailing pension issues in the state. Deputy Governor of the state, Dr. Emmanuel Akabe who expressed the government’s willingness during an interface with officials of the Pension Commission, PENCOM […]

By Eberechukwu Lebechi As Imo State government dig deep its status, and the question of democratic leadership raises again, many are wondering how Imo State got here. The trenches of bad governance, legitimacy crisis, unpopular government and its policies have now become the hallmarks of the Douglas House. It is one of a depressing story, […]

By Kingsley Omonobi The Nigerian Navy has alerted the general public and the Nigerian media in particular, on inaccurate and unverified news reports on the rate of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG). A statement by Commodore Suleman Dahun, Director of Naval Information said, “These reports are a deliberate ongoing effort to discourage maritime […]

By Joseph Erunke Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, has condemned in totality the abduction of hundreds of female students in the Government Girls’ Secondary School,  Jangebe in Talata  Mafara   Local Government  Area of Zamfara State, by suspected bandits, in the early hours of Friday. In a statement issued […]

Ecobank Nigeria has today opened the market at London Stock Exchange via a virtual ceremony to mark the listing of its five-year fixed rate senior unsecured US$300 million bonds.

Lagos lawyer’s wife raises alarm over threat to life by husband, alleges infidelity, battery, neglect of their babies. Reacting, the husband said she lied and that it was the wife that threatened to kill him.

By Dennis Agbo The World Igbo Congress, WIC, has asked Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo state to henceforth withdraw all attacks on the Eastern Security Network, ESN, a group the WIC said has been helping to checkmate the menace of killer headsmen the south east. WIC said it was confused on Governor Uzodinma’s actions when […]

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the UN Security Council and its members urging them to “urgently hold a special session on Nigeria and to visit the country to press the authorities to end continuing abductions of students and the increasing level of insecurity across the country.” The organization […]

The cause of the death of a first year student of the Federal University of Technology Owerri, FUTO, whose name was given as Daniel Uchenna Nwafor, of the department of Chemistry, that allegedly hung himself to dead has been surrounded with health challenges of the ear as said be in the note, he dropped before taken his life.