RHV, Nisa Premier Hospitals perform first tele-robotic surgery in West Africa
By Chioma obinna A new chapter opened in Nigeria’s healthcare system at the weekend as surgeons at Redeemer’s Health Village (RHV) Hospital, Lagos, in collaboration with Nisa Premier Hospital, Abuja, successfully performed what they described as the first tele-robotic surgery in West Africa.The landmark procedure saw a surgeon in Lagos remotely operate on a patient […]
Miners’ Deaths: Call for sack of NSCDC boss misguided, unnecessary distraction — CSOs
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA — The Coalition of Civil Societies for Transparency and Accountability (COSTA) has condemned the call for the termination of the tenure of the Commandant-General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Professor Ahmed Abubakar Audi. The condemnation comes in the wake of an alleged call by a lawyer and […]
APC wins Gombe/Kwami/Funakaye Federal Constituency bye-election
By Ben Ngwakwe, Gombe The All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate, Engr. Usman Maijama’a Kallamu, has won the Gombe/Kwami/Funakaye Federal Constituency bye-election held on Saturday, September 19, 2026. Kallamu polled 41,121 votes to defeat candidates of the other political parties that contested the election. The bye-election was conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to […]
2027: Over 6,000 NDC members defect to PDP in Enugu
By Chinedu Adonu ENUGU — More than 6,000 members of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Enugu State ahead of the 2027 general elections. The defectors, led by Mr Godwin Obasi, were formally received into the PDP by the party’s state leadership in Enugu on Saturday. Obasi […]
I was offered N250m to support Obasanjo’s 3rd term agenda — Farouk Aliyu
Former House of Representatives Minority Leader, Farouk Aliyu, has alleged that he was offered N250 million to support former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s controversial third-term agenda in 2006. Aliyu made the claim during an interview on the Naija Unfiltered Podcast, where he recounted his experience as a member of the House of Representatives during the debate […]
Gombe Diphtheria Outbreak: 332 cases recorded in four LGAs
By Ben Ngwakwe, Gombe The Gombe State Government has commenced an emergency vaccination exercise following a diphtheria outbreak that has recorded about 332 cases across four local government areas of the state. The affected local government areas are Akko, Gombe, Kwami and Funakaye. The development was contained in a directive issued by the Gombe State […]
