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  The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Tuesday, exonerated homes of Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) from involvement in child factory, rather the body, through its Communication Officer, Media and External Relations, Blessing Ejiofor, blamed maternity homes and other homes as culprits of child factory business. UNICEF said no government organ …

  An online rating of Africa’s top 50 universities on 2015 University Web Rankings Africa, ha s placed the highest ranking Nigerian university to be University of Lagos in lowly 20th place, with other varsities like the Obafemi Awolowo University of Ile-Ife in 23rd position, University of Ibadan in 38th …

  President Goodluck Jonathan has told the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), that this is the time to stop the movement of youths from the sub-region to Europe through the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea, which has resulted …

Health workers, under the aegis of Nigerian Union of Allied Health professionals (NUAHP) in all government hospitals across the country, Tuesday declared the commencement of an indefinite strike. National President of the Union, Comrade Obinna Ogbonna, who called for the industrial action after a meeting with health professionals at the …

  Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Tuesday, swiftly dismissed the demand by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) for her office to account for about $20 billion oil revenue from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) from June 2013 to April 2015. “There is no …

  A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has restrained President Goodluck Jonathan, from assenting to the bill for an Act to amend the Oil and Gas Export Free Zone. The court, presided over by Justice Saliu Saidu, also restrained the National Assembly, the Clerk of the National Assembly from …

Twenty-one Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidates who contested for seats in the recent of Anambra State House of Assembly elections have decided to either withdraw their petitions from the Election Petitions Tribunal or stay action on any further challenge of their electoral losses in courts. In a Communiqué issued in …

A suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber has blown himself up killing at least seven people, Tuesday at a cattle market in the rural town of Garkida, in Adamawa state, police said. Witnesses put the figure higher, saying up to 10 had been killed in the busy market when the blast …

Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA) Ahmadu Giade, ha disclosed Tuesday, that a cartel comprising some court clerks and prison warders aided 197 convicted drug traffickers to evade serving their sentences”. The NDLEA boss who disclosed this while supervising the destruction of illicit drugs valued at …

  Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, Tuesday, emerged chairman of Northern State Governors’ Forum. At the end of the meeting presided over by Niger State Governor and outgoing Chairman of the forum, Babangida Aliyu, the deputy governor and governor-elect of Kano State, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, was also elected as the …

Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, Tuesday, emerged chairman of Northern State Governors’ Forum. At the end of the meeting presided over by Niger State Governor and outgoing Chairman of the forum, Babangida Aliyu, the deputy governor and governor-elect of Kano State, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, was also elected as the vice …

The Department of Development Control of Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has began online tracking all ongoing building developments in the territory. This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Mohammed Sule, Chief Press Secretary to Sen. Bala Mohammed, FCT Minister in Abuja, Tuesday. “The scheme, known as Development …

  The Attorney-General of the Federation and Justice Minister, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke, has directed the Chief Judge of Bayelsa State to administer the Oath of Allegiance and Oath of Office on the Governor-elect of Rivers State, Nyelsom Ezenwo Wike, on May 29, following the existing vacuum in the Office …

  Reacting to the dismissal of the suit filed by the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) challenging the planned inauguration of Chief Nyesom Wike as Governor and his Deputy, Dr. Mrs Ipalibo Harry Banigo, come May 29, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state has …

  Nigeria’s former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Orubebe, has dismissed growing reports that he was defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Orubebe who said reports attributed to him on a Twitter account, @ElderGOrubebe, was completely false, further noted that, he is …

  Four companies: Rainbownet Nigeria Limited, Cosmos FM, Capital City Automobile Nigeria Limited and the Renaissance University Teaching Hospital, allegedly associated with the former governor of Enugu State, Chimaroke Nnamani, Tuesday, pleaded guilty to a 10-count amended charge preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC at …

  In a bid to reposition the factionalised Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), members of the group have elected Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari as new Chairman. Yari emerged at the end of the meeting of the forum held at the Lagos/Osun Hall of the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja. The outgoing …

Police in Lagos say it has successfully restored normalcy to the NNPC area of Ejigbo, a suburb where fracas erupted in the early hours of Monday between commercial motorcycle operators (okada) and members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW). The fracas was said to have resulted from …

President Barack Obama of the United States has announced that the designation of Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry, as head of the Presidential Delegation to Nigeria to attend the Inauguration of Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s new President next week Friday, May 29. In a White House statement released Tuesday, …

  Mr. Roberts U. Orya, the MD/CEO of the Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM) elected as the Honorary President of the Global Network of Export-Import Banks and Development Finance Institutions (G-NEXID). The Global Network of Export-Import Banks and Development Finance Institutions (G-NEXID) concluded its 10th Annual General Meeting, Tuesday, at the …

Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has received an honorary Doctorate degree from Yale University, one of the United States’ most prestigious institutions of higher learning. The minister was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters at Yale’s 2015 Commencement Ceremony in New Haven, Connecticut, …

NEDU MARK, Yenagoa Human rights group, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has reported an oil spill incident at Osiama oil field operated by Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC), in Bayelsa State. The oil spill at the Osiama field was discovered by field monitors of ERA/FoEN last month …

It has become clear that the decision of lawmakers belonging to the All Progressives Congress in the Kaduna State House of Assembly to reject a resolution requesting for the disbursement of SURE-P funds amounting to N2.744 has the support of the both the governor-elect, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, and the state’s …

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has approved the appointment of Mrs. Uju Aisha Hassan-Baba, as the new Executive Secretary/Chief Executive of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC). Mrs. Hassan-Baba takes over from Mrs. Saratu Altine Umar who has been relieved of her appointment as the Executive Secretary/Chief Executive of NIPC, Monday, …