…says to be ready for unscheduled visits to Lagos hospitals By Chioma Obinna The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi has declared zero tolerance for sloppiness and poor work ethics in his Ministry, even as he said the administration will channel more resources into primary healthcare centres as well as strengthen collaboration between […]

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said his administration will continue to collaborate with religious groups in addressing societal ills that impede development in society. The governor disclosed this during a courtesy visit by the General Overseer, Spirit and Life Family Bible Church, Apostle (Mrs.) Deb’rah Eunice Gordon-Osagiede at Government House, in Benin City. […]

Dayo Johnson – Akure Ahead of the 2020 governorship election in Ondo state, the Nigeria Union local government Employees (NULGE) yesterday cautioned opposition political parties in the state against politicising the ongoing screening exercise of workers ordered by the state government. Recall that some governorship aspirants in the opposition parties have criticised the screening exercise […]

By Samuel Oyadongha & Emem Idio – Yenagoa Ahead of the November 16 Bayelsa State Governorship Election, the Stakeholders Democracy Network, SDN, in collaboration with the United Nations Democracy Fund, UNDEF, has trained thirty staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Bayelsa State on capacity building and election practices. The one-day training workshop […]

Soni Daniel – Abuja Eighteenth Engineering Company (EEC) a leading construction company in Nigeria, has chosen Government Girls Secondary School, Dutse, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja as a centre for its Educational Charity as part of the events marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China. Under […]

The Japanese government has donated 20 rice reapers and 20 rice threshers to small scale farmers in Awe, Obi and Keana Local Government Areas of  Nasarawa State. Speaking in Azara, Awe LGA, the Ambassador of Japan to Nigeria, Yutaka Kikuta, said that the donation was under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Project (GGP), […]

  Kebbi Government with support from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the European Union has begun the process of implementing primary healthcare in its environs. The Executive Secretary of the state Primary Health Care Development Agency (SPHCDA), Dr. Abubakar Kaoje, made this known in Birnin Kebbi on Wednesday. Kaoje noted that primary healthcare […]

…Opine that Poor exploitation, utilization of solid minerals affect socio-economic devt By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The President of Organisation of African Geological Surveys, OAGS,  who also doubles as Director-General, Nigerian Geological Survey Agency, NGSA, Engr. Abdulrazaq Garba, yesterday, asserted that poor exploitation and utilization of solid minerals affect Africa’s socio-economic development. Garba who also […]

By Sola Ogundipe AS part of moves to improve the care for children born with cleft lip and palate, no less than six surgeons are to specialise in cleft care every year from 2020 across Nigeria and entire West Africa. Cleft lip and cleft palate are openings or split in the upper lip, the roof […]

Professor Michael Ngadi, Director, Integrated Food and Bioprocess (IFB) programme, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.   Ngadi made the assertion on Tuesday at the 20th International Conference and 40th Annual General Meeting of the Nigerian Institution of Agricultural Engineering (NIAE) hosted by Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara. Ngadi, a Professor of Food and Bioprocess Engineering, said Nigeria’s […]