World Hepatitis Day: 28 million people in Eastern Mediterranean living with hepatitis – WHO
By Chioma Obinna The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised fresh concerns over the burden of viral hepatitis in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, revealing that an estimated 28 million people are living with hepatitis B and C, while nearly 97,000 people died from the diseases in 2024, despite the availability of effective vaccines, testing and […]
Taraba State’s alleged PVC impunity
The allegation that teachers and other workers in Taraba State were directed to present photocopies of their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) before receiving their salaries has rightly provoked outrage across the country. The Taraba State Universal Basic Education Board (TSUBEB) has denied making salary payment contingent on PVC submission, insisting that its chairperson, Christiana Binga, […]
NUC licenses BYU-Pathway as online university
….As Latter Day Saints promise quality education By Adesina WahabThe National Universities Commission, NUC, has licensed the Brigham Young University–Pathway Worldwide, an online higher education organization run by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, to operate in the country. Disclosing the good news to members of the church and newsmen in Ikeja, […]
From Abuja, ATU makes Ubuntu call, by Okoh Aihe
For the policymakers, regulators and industry leaders who gathered in Abuja last week for the Seventh Ordinary Session of the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) Conference of Plenipotentiaries, the message was clear: the need for deeper collaboration, strengthening of relationships and sharing of peer experiences in order to give the continent a deserved place in the global […]
CityBoy Movement Ogun State distances self from “CityBoy Likeminds” group
By Adesina Wahab The leadership of the CityBoy Movement, Ogun State Chapter, has said it has nothing to do with a group operating under the name of “CityBoy Likeminds.” In a statement by Comrade Adeyemi Samson Ajasa, the General Secretary CityBoy Movement, Ogun State Chapter, it added that it has nothing to do with CityBoy […]
It’s a straight fight between Jackson and AMBO, by Rotimi Fasan
The so-called off-cycle governorship election slated for August 15 in Osun State is billed to be a straight fight between the incumbent governor, the ever-ebullient, happy-go-lucky Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke, and a former finance commissioner in the cabinet of Adeleke’s predecessor, Asiwaju Bola Munirudeen Oyebamiji, popularly called AMBO. He is an acolyte of the self-respecting, easy-going Gboyega […]
