HPV: Adamawa to vaccinate 388,180 girls
The Adamawa State Primary Healthcare Development Agency says it is targeting 388,180 girls aged nine to 14 years for vaccination against the Human Papilloma Virus to prevent them from cervical cancer. The Executive Chairman of the agency, Dr Suleiman Bashir, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Yola. Bashir […]
Naira Marley, Sam Larry sue magistrate, police, demand N40m
Controversial singer, Abdulazeez Fashola, alias Naira Marley, and Lagos socialite, Samson Eletu, alias Sam Larry, have filed a fundamental rights suit to challenge their continued detention over the death of 27-year-old singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, alias Mohbad. Joined as defendants in the suit filed before the Federal High Court in Lagos were the police and the […]
Children recruitment by B’Haram, ISWAP must stop – Zulum
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has expressed the fear that Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists may continue tormenting the country if proper security steps are not taken to forestall the recruitment of young children into the terror groups. He spoke when the new Governing Board and Management of the North-East Development Commission paid him […]
Abuja, Lagos protesters oppose N160m SUV for lawmakers
Protests broke out in Lagos and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on Monday as youths decried the allocation of Sport Utility Vehicles for members of the National Assembly. The youths who gathered in their numbers in the Ikeja area of Lagos held placards and chanted ‘Fund education not SUVs, ‘Pay living wage not SUVs, ‘Return […]
Tinubu to present 2024 budget November, says Senate
President Bola Tinubu will present the 2024 budget to the National Assembly in the next two weeks. The President will also submit the supplementary budget for 2023 to the National Assembly for consideration. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Solomon Adeola, who made this known during the inaugural meeting of the committee on Wednesday, […]
Kidnapped Nasarawa lecturer freed after N5m ransom
A lecturer of the Faculty of Administration at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Dr Comfort Adokwe, who was recently abducted, has regained freedom after her family and well-wishers paid N5m ransom to her abductors. Heavily armed men had on Sunday night invaded her residence at Angwan Jaba in the Keffi Local Government Area of the […]
JUST IN: How Bawa sued DSS over detention without trial
Evidence has emerged of how the embattled former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, who was released Wednesday night, had on October 20, sued the Department of State Services for his incarceration without trial since June 14, 2023. Bawa in the suit filed at the Lagos Division of the Federal High […]
Tinubu names new heads for NTA, NBC, eight others
President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, approved the appointment of eight new Chief Executive Officers for parastatals and agencies under the Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation with immediate effect. They include the National Orientation Agency, the Nigerian Television Authority, the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, the National Broadcasting Commission, the Voice of Nigeria, the […]
Nigeria must diversify, cut dependence on crude – Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Sunday, again stressed the need for the country to shift from a mono-economy marked by over-dependence on crude oil and embrace non-oil exports, particularly agribusiness to overcome the problem of forex crisis that had significantly impacted the nation’s economy negatively. Obasanjo alluded to the assertion by some commentators who opined […]
Certificate saga: APC USA warns NADECO against embarrassing Tinubu
The United States chapter of All Progressives Congress on Sunday night warned the National Democratic Coalition from going ahead with its planned press conference on the controversy surrounding President Bola Tinubu’s Chicago State University academic certificate, saying the school has already confirmed its authenticity. The warning is coming two days after the Publicity Secretary of […]