A team of Medical Experts from the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital Kano (AKTH) have said that one out of five individuals are vulnerable to mental illness.

Stigmatisation is one of the major challenges persons living with immunodeficiency virus (HIV) face on daily basis in Nigeria. 

A Texas-based televangelist is facing scrutiny following a recent TV interview in which he defended his use of three private jets and referred to the public as “a bunch of demons” that he needed to avoid while preparing his sermons.

Lupus is a systemic autoimmune disease that occurs when your body’s immune system attacks your own tissues and organs. Inflammation caused by lupus can affect many different body systems — including your joints, skin, kidneys, blood cells, brain, heart and lungs. In Nigeria, awareness for such a life-altering disease remains poor.   For so many people, it is a case of witchcraft.  

The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has told his wife, Dolapo (née Soyode) Osinbajo, that with her by his side, he is ready for the next four years servicing the people of Nigeria.

Green and vervet monkeys live on either side of Africa and their evolutionary paths diverged 3.5 million years ago, and yet the two species share a hard-wired vocabulary when faced with danger, clever experiments have shown.

10 years ago, tragedy struck the family of Vivian Ogu, 14, who was killed by armed robbers who attacked her and her elder sister, and took her to a nearby bush to be raped but she resisted and paid with her life.

A Badagry Customary Court sitting at the City’s Town Hall on Friday dissolved a 14-year-old marriage on the grounds of irresponsibility and fetish acts by the husband .

We lose our humanity when we fall below acceptable standard behaviour and decency. No matter who we are and what we do, we must be rational enough to know the limit one can stoop in every circumstance and relationship. However, it would seem that late Dimeji did not realise this until his death. Bankole, (74), Dimeji’s older brother described him as a much desired child who turned out to become the black sheep of the family, wreaking    much havoc and family and friends like an hurricane throughout his lifetime. This is Pa Bankole’s account of what transpired between himself and his brother below. 

Anyone who has spent at least one hour with the Sultan of Sokoto and Amirul Mu’mineen of Nigeria before will want to have it again and again.   That is a monarch so much loved, not only by his subjects but also by people from afar.   His people of the Caliphate live their lives based on the Qur’anic injunctions, ‘Obey Allah, His messenger and those in positions of authority among you.’  

These are, indeed, times when odd happenings throw you off balance. And you begin to wonder, what could prompt a mother or a father to sell his or her child? Or how do parents who sell their children explain the motive? Or at what point do illiteracy, hunger, lack or greed become so grave that selling your child becomes an option?

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday suspended the meeting of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, to enable Muslim members  of the cabinet to break their Ramadan fast. 

The Nigerian Baptist Convention (NBC) has tasked the Federal Government and security agencies to develop new operational tactics to end the country’s security challenges.

Foreign Affairs Ministry has said its silent diplomatic efforts in the past few weeks facilitated the release of Zainab Aliyu and Ibrahim Abubakar arrested by Saudi Arabia for alleged drug offence.

Nine more motorists in Edo State have completed various forms of community service for flouting road traffic rules and regulations in Benin City, the Edo State capital, following the adoption of this method of punishment by the Edo State Traffic Control and Management Agency (EDTSMA).