The Benue State Ministry of Health and Human Services has dismissed reports of a suspected Mpox (Monkeypox) outbreak in Korinya Community, Konshisha Local Government Area, LGA, assuring residents that investigations showed the reported illness was consistent with Chickenpox (Varicella) and not Mpox.

Sometimes, a nation confronts scandals that appear unrelated: corruption in one institution, brutality in another, and troubling questions of legality elsewhere. Yet beneath the shifting headlines, a deeper pattern may be emerging. Recent debate has involved allegations of corruption, extortion, torture, and degrading treatment in correctional centres; claims that constituency projects are distorting the federal budget; […]

Governor Umo Eno’s sustained commitment to environmental sanitation has become a defining feature of his administration’s efforts to build a cleaner, healthier and more resilient Akwa Ibom State.

The recent decision by the United States House of Representatives to approve an amendment seeking to suspend American assistance to Nigeria until the federal government demonstrates measurable progress in protecting vulnerable communities, particularly Christians, has generated passionate reactions across political, diplomatic and religious circles. The measure, which was attached to the Fiscal Year 2027 State Department […]

The media are therefore not passive observers of social processes; they are active participants in either conflict transformation or conflict escalation.

By Chioma Obinna Sixteen years after sustained autism advocacy began in Nigeria, experts on Monday lamented that thousands of children and adults living with autism remain excluded from schools, workplaces and community life, blaming weak government policies, poor public support systems and persistent stigma.They warned that while public awareness of autism has improved over the […]

By Ozioruva Aliu BENIN CITY – THE Edo State Commissioner for Power, Hon Paul Usenbor has said that Governor Monday Okpebholo’s reforms in the power sector aligns with African Union’s vision of electricity for 300 million Africans by the year 2030 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7 on affordable and clean energy. Usenbor […]

“Despite being a former military general, the administration was perceived as doing “little or nothing” about the escalating threats of insurgency, banditry and kidnapping.”

This week continues the series on insecurity in Nigeria In a letter to the President, Chief Awolowo said, as far as he was concerned, the President had destroyed the efficacy of the meeting by making the intention for the meeting public. He said he would nevertheless attend the meeting in spite of what he called “the […]

By MUSA KRISHI The year 2025 was a remarkable one for the 360 members of the House of Representatives in several ways. It was a year in which the lawmakers spoke in one voice, setting aside political affiliations and clothing themselves in unmatched patriotism. A major issue of concern to the lawmakers, and indeed to every […]