In an effort to further promote and improve sports across Liberia, the President of Stages Football Club, Chris Geeply Weah has stressed the need to have an exclusive Ministry of Sports in Liberia. The call, he stated will help ensure a full concentration of exclusive sports programs and activities across Liberia. Sports, he stressed, should […]
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Nigeria Country Director of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USCDC), Dr. Mary Boyd has said that about 1.9 million people living with HIV in Nigeria have access to free treatments to save their lives. Boyd made this known at the opening of a 2-day CDC Biannual Program Performance Review Meeting and […]
The Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC in Borno State, Hon Ali Bukar Dalori has declared that Governor Babagana Umara Zulum remains the candidate to beat in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. He said, going by the unprecedented achievements recorded in the last three and half years of the Zulum’s administration, with the […]
Thirteen days after the Federal Government assured that the ongoing petrol shortage in the nation’s capital would ease, queues at filling stations have grown longer. The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, however disclosed that the number of fuel trucks into Abuja has increased to 180 per day in its bid to end […]
Dr Lauren Arendse and Prof Kelly Chibale, researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT) are part of a breakthrough finding that shows that a cancer drug, currently in clinical trials, can potentially protect from, cure, and prevent the transmission of malaria. The groundbreaking research is in collaboration with several local and international institutions from […]
Experts in the poultry industry on Wednesday said poultry production can improve Nigeria’s economy and enhance the nation’s Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), if properly harnessed by the federal government. They also stressed that massive opportunities that abound in the industry can change the unemployment narrative in the nation and as well alleviate poverty among Nigerians. […]
EXACTLY two years ago, a tragic event that has set the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos aside as a historic monument of sorts took place. A crowd of unarmed youths singing the national anthem was shot at by troops in a bid to quell protests which had lasted for nearly two weeks. The youths called […]
The Defence headquarters yesterday warned politicians and their social media handlers to desist from misusing images and visuals of military personnel to campaign and promote their interests. According to DHQ, this does not only present the armed forces in bad light, but can also sow seeds of distrust and instability. The warning comes against the […]
ORGANISERS and victims of the ENDSARS protests, yesterday, called for the full implementation of the reports of the judicial panels of inquiry set up by the government to probe the protests just as it promised to hold a memorial rally in honour of those killed during the October 2020 ENDSARS protests at the Lekki tollgate […]
Nanre Nafziger Uncertainties can be a time of great anxiety but they can be a time of great possibility. A time to rethink the language of politics, to rethink the language of struggle, rethink the language of solidarity. Power is not always about domination. It is not exclusively about domination. It is also about resistance. […]
Ado Ekiti — The Controller General of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Mr Idris Isah Jere, has charged officers and men of the Service to be upright, steadfast and patriotic, neutral and apolitical in the discharge of their national duties during the 2023 general polls. Jere urged his operatives to always be alive in their […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has ordered MTN and Airtel to immediately reverse the hike in their data tariff plan which they implemented on their respective networks last week. MTN and Airtel subscribers suddenly realised that the operators had commenced a new data tariff plan which was an upward review of the cost of their […]
Warri — The 63 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Asaba, has launched ‘Exercise Still Water II, 2022’ as part of the measures aimed at beefing up security surveillance and crimes combat, especially during festive period when criminal activities get to their peak. Brigade Commander, Brigadier General David Saraso while flagging off the exercise in Asaba […]
John Shiklam writes about the complaints by foreign-trained Nigerian doctors on the conduct of the licensing exams by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, MDCN, calling for transparency and restructuring of the conduct of the exercise. The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN), is the regulatory and licensing body for medical and dental […]
… .Creates MAOCADA for young women With youths accounting for over 60 percent of Nigeria’s population, youth unemployment requires urgent attention if the wave of social vices is to be curtailed. According to the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria is home to over 70 million young people of working age, and more than 54 percent […]
The Resource Center for the Blind, RCB, a non-governmental organisation, has called on the government and corporate organisations to ensure inclusive opportunities for the visually impaired and people with special needs. Speaking during a walk to commemorate World Sight Day in partnership with Jubrila Ayinla Foundation, Director of the Centre, Temitayo Ayinla-Omotola said that 90 […]
Abuja — The Presidency yesterday challenged states to give an account of how they spent amounts in excess of one trillion naira, allocated to them from the Ecological Fund to tackle floods and other ecological problems. This came as the Federal Government said yesterday that the release of water from the Lagdo Dam in Cameroun […]
I AM not a lawyer. But in writing this article, I spoke to learned friends who, in unanimity, held that President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has no legal beam to hang its jaundiced interpretation of the Appeal Court judgement that discharged the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, of terrorism charges. In […]