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Lagos State government has approved the provision of solar power to all public schools in the state. While 134 junior and senior secondary schools in the state won a total sum of N268 million in this year’s ‘Governor’s Award’ under the Lagos Eko Project, Governor of the state, Babatunde Fashola has announced. Fashola made the […]

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Dr. Joseph Thlama Dawha has said that the Corporation under his watch would sustain the ongoing transformation of the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry in order to impact positively on the economy. Dawha stated this on Wednesday […]

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has on Wednesday in Washington DC called for more effective global action and implementation of all existing international protocols against terrorism and violent extremism. In Nigeria’s country statement presented to the ongoing US-African Leaders Summit, Jonathan also demanded a more effective international sanctions regime against countries, organisations and individuals that sponsor […]

The Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, has confirmed that a Nigerian nurse who had primary contact with the late Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian who imported the deadly Ebola virus into Nigeria, is dead. The Minister said at a news conference on Wednesday, that the nurse died on Tuesday as a result of the virus. […]

The Lagos State Government on Tuesday debunked the allegation of illegality and impunity made against it by residents of Omole Phase 2 area of the state over the construction of some blocks of flats at the Estate.  The government said denied going wrong by constructing the flats which, it said, was part of the Lagos […]

The seven-man panel set up by the Chief Judge of Nasarawa State to try the 16-count allegation of gross misconduct against the state governor, Umar Tanko Al-Makura, has found the governor innocent of all the charges. The panel which ended its sitting minutes ago, said the House of Assembly did not provide any evidence to […]

The gruesome video footage gathered by Amnesty International(AI) provides fresh evidence of war crimes in north-eastern Nigeria, the organisation has said. “This shocking new evidence is further proof of the appalling crimes being committed with abandon by all sides in the conflict. Nigerians deserve better – what does it say when members of the military […]

The Lagos doctor who was infected with Ebola is not dead, Director, Centre for Disease Control, Abuja, Professor Abdulsalami Nasidi, has said. Nasidi made the clarification while at a press briefing in Lagos, Monday. He said the infected patient had been isolated and was receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital in Lagos. “We will not be […]

As tension continues to scale up in Nigeria over the governorship election in Osun State slated for Saturday, the two major political parties in the election, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) have again hit at each other over a directive by the APC mandating its members, political officers in […]

President Goodluck Jonathan declared that the days when a few politicians, acting in concert with their hirelings and thugs, can hijack voters cards and other electoral materials, and manipulate the outcome of elections to their personal advantage are gone forever in Nigeria. Jonathan made the declaration while speaking at a meeting with Nigerian professionals in […]

The medical doctor who handled the case of the late Mr. Patrick Sawyer, the victim of Ebola virus, who flew into Nigeria from Liberia two weeks ago, is dead. Before news of his death spread on Monday, the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, had confirmed to journalists in Abuja that the doctor had tested positive […]

About two months after calling out its members for a nationwide strike, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA)appears to be divided on whether to suspend the action or not. A press conference that was scheduled to take place on Sunday was put off for undisclosed reasons.  “Please bear with us, we will call you in 48 […]