Oluwadamilare Adepoju has explained that his inspiration to pursue public health is his desire to advocate equal access

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says Nigeria has the second-highest number of cases of cholera outbreak in West and Central Africa.

By Elizabeth Adegbesan Nigeria spent N146.11 billion on motorcycle importation in the first quarter of this year (Q1″25). According to the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, Foreign Trade in Goods Statistics for the review period,  the Q1’25 figure represents a  N28 billion or 24.4 percent year-on-year (YoY) increase when compared to N117.4 billion spent in the […]

By Cynthia Alo  The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has directed the immediate development of an integrated real-time port performance dashboard to tackle long-standing inefficiencies in cargo dwell time and vessel turnaround at the nation’s seaports. Speaking at the Council’s Management System Retreat in Lagos, Executive Secretary of the NSC, Dr. Akutah Pius Ukeyima, said the new […]

Nwosu had said he was offered three ministerial slots to back out of plans to align the ADC with the opposition coalition.

FORMER National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Chief Okey Nwosu, yesterday, disclosed that the party has set up mechanisms to flush out infiltrators from the All Progressives Congress, APC, from its fold.

After spending $1.5 billion on the rehabilitation of the 210,000 barrels per day Port Harcourt Refinery, Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, Bayo Ojulari, has declared that operating it before it was fully completed was ill-informed.

Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, yesterday, refused the fresh bail application by Fred Ajudua.

The Nigerian Citizens Association South Africa (NICASA), has condemned the alleged killing of two Nigerians, Mr Austin Amarachukwu from Imo and Mr Owolabi Ayotunde from Lagos State in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In a statement issued on Wednesday by the President of NICASA, Frank Onyekwelu, the organisation expressed its deepest shock, sadness and outrage at the […]

By Vincent Ujumadu The wife of the governor of Anambra State, Dr Nonye Soludo has embarked on a medical outreach as part of programmes to mark her 55th birthday. At the outreach programme, which took her to Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Awka, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital,Nnewi and the newly built General Hospital, […]

Nigeria on Wednesday called for a two-state solution as a way out of the age-long conflict between Israel and Palestine. Nigeria made its position known in its statement at the United Nations High-Level Conference on the Two-State Solution at the UN headquarters in New York. Nigeria’s statement was delivered by the Chargé d’Affaires of the […]

…It’s politically instigated —SEMA By Peter Duru Makurdi— The Makurdi–Lafia highway was, yesterday, taken over by hundreds of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, housed at the Maga IDPs Camp, Mbayongo, on the outskirts of Makurdi, in protest over alleged lack of food and other basic necessities. The angry IDPs, who barricaded the highway at the junction […]

Federal Government has issued yet another urgent warning about imminent floods that could endanger lives and property…

The Katsina State House of Assembly has expressed serious concern over what it called the recent increase in bandit attacks on some communities in the state.

Last week’s protest by retired policeofficers clamouring for exit from the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, once again, brought to the fore the knotty issue of police welfare. To be sure, this agitation is not new. It is as old as the scheme itself. So, to the extent that it was about improved welfare for policemen, serving and retired, it was […]