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Shell companies in Nigeria have emerged the best in Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, Innovation, and also the best in Sustainable Stakeholder Engagement at the 2015 edition of the Social Enterprise Report and Awards (SERAs) held in Lagos on Friday. In addition, Dr. Uwem Ite, of The Shell Petroleum Development Company …

The Akwa Ibom State Quartenary Medical Center, Ibom International Specialist hospital, is set to commence operations as medical expatriates have arrived the state to test run facilities at the center. The State Governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel, announced this during the Commissioning of the ultra modern Residential Apartments of the Hospital …

By Dennis Udoma, Uyo The recently concluded Annual General and Scientific Conference of the Nigerian Thoracic Society (NTS), in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, was an eye opener in many ways. To participants, it was educative and revealing, following presentations made by the various speakers which were targeted at …

An operation which brought together 750 police officers from the Italian, Spanish, Polish, English, Belgian, Georgian, Turkish and Cameroonian police, with the support of Europol and Interpol, and with the coordination of Eurojust, has led to the arrest of three more Nigerians involved various degrees of fraudulent activities across Europe. …

A third body has been recovered from the apartment in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis raided by police after last Friday’s attacks, prosecutors say. They also confirmed that one of the dead was Hasna Aitboulahcen, 26, who reportedly blew herself up in the raid. The alleged ringleader of the attacks, …

Malian commandos stormed a luxury hotel in Bamako, Friday after Islamist gunmen took 170 people including many foreigners hostage in the capital of the former French colony, which has been battling rebels allied to al Qaeda for several years. Dozens of people were reported to have escaped or been freed, …

Drug abuse has become a major problem in Nigeria and is increasingly attracting the attention of the academia, civil society groups and governments, especially on how to curb the menace. In this interview with DENNIS UDOMA in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital, the Vice-President, Global Alcohol Policy Alliance (GAPA), …

Suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter and other suspended vice-president Michel Platini have had their appeals against their 90-day bans rejected by world football governing body’s appeal committee. They were suspended in October while FIFA’s ethics committee investigates corruption claims against them. Blatter, 79, is accused of signing a contract “unfavourable” …

A female suicide bomber blew herself up and another militant died, Wednesday, when police raided an apartment in the Paris suburb of St. Denis seeking suspects in last week’s attacks in the French capital. Officials said police had been hunting Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian Islamist militant accused of masterminding the …

Ford’s new Nigerian assembly plant has built its first model and will produce an initial 10 vehicles a day for the domestic market, the United States-based carmaker said, Tuesday. The company said in August it would start the assembly of its best-selling Ford Ranger pickup trucks in Nigeria, as it …

A Nigerian man and his wife have been convicted in a London court, of charges bordering on keeping another man, a compatriot, as slave for 24 years at their home The couple, Dr. Emmanuel and wife, Antan Edet, a nurse, from Perivale, north west London, were found guilty of three …

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Tuesday commiserated with the French Government over last Friday’s terror attacks in Paris which killed more than 120 people. Governor Ambode, in a condolence letter sent to the Ambassador of France to Nigeria, Mr. Denys Gauer, described the dastardly act as an attack …

  Russia President, Vladimir Putin, Tuesday, said his country would intensify its air strikes on Islamist militants in Syria and launch a global manhunt after the Kremlin concluded that terrorists had placed a bomb on a Russian passenger jet which broke up over Egypt last month. “We will find them …

Russia, Tuesday, admitted that a bomb caused the fatal crash of a national airliner in Egypt which killed all 224 passengers on board. The plane carrying mostly tourists, crash landed over Sinai, Egypt with reports indicating it exploded in the air before crashing. Until Tuesday, Russia had played down assertions …

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has disclosed that over 62 million Nigerians are illiterate, adding that the figure remains inimical to the nation’s growth and development. UNESCO also said it would take 58 years to eradicate illiteracy, even with innovation  like Information and Communications Technology and …

President Vladimir Putin has disclosed that he has shared Russian intelligence data on Islamic State financing with his G20 colleagues, further stating that the terrorists appear to be financed from 40 countries, including some G20 member states. “I provided examples based on our data on the financing of different Islamic …

Antibiotic resistance, which can turn common ailments into killers, has reached dangerous levels worldwide, the World Health Organization warned Monday, saying users still know too little about how antibiotics work. Antibiotic resistance happens when bugs become immune to existing drugs, allowing minor injuries and common infections to become deadly. Overuse …

Several Kalashnikovs have been found in an abandoned car believed to have been used by some of the Paris attackers, French judicial sources say. The black Seat car was found in the eastern Paris suburb of Montreuil on Sunday, suggesting some of the attackers got away. Earlier, the first of …

Multiple sources have said that a severed finger found at the Bataclan theatre, where three gunmen killed 89 people during a concert on Friday night, belonged to Omar Ismaïl Mostefai, a petty criminal of Algerian origin. Paris prosecutor François Molins said the suspect was born in the poor southern Paris …

The Pentagon confirmed, Friday,  that United States forces carried out an airstrike in Syria targeting Emwazi, the Isis terrorist known as “Jihadi John” after appearing in gruesome propaganda videos depicting the beheadings of eight hostages. David Cameron made a statement from Downing Street on Friday morning confirming the attack amid …

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has banned all forms of street protests in the state, condemning the street protests by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, which have crippled commercial activities in the state. The streets of Port Harcourt were, largely, deserted Wednesday, and several companies and business premises …

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, has sent a message of congratulations to Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, his Assistant Secretary-General and Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning, on her appointment as Minister in the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari. A statement conveying the best wishes said “The Secretary-General …

The Golden Eaglets of Nigeria have won the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Chile. This makes it the fifth time that the country’s Under 17 team would be winning the coveted trophy. The Emmanuel Amuneke tutored team beat the Malian side to emerge victorious. Victor Osimhen and Funsho Bamgboye scored …

Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) has signed an agreement with Project Gaia Prospects Limited (PGPL) for the conduct of a pilot study on the use of Ethanol clean cookstoves, a cleaner and safer way of cooking. SNEPCo will provide 2,500 clean cookstoves and 15,000 canisters for distribution to …

The Igbo Catholic Community Church (ICC), of the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, United States, has held its 2015 Thanksgiving Harvest and Bazaar. The event, which Monsignor Anselm Nwaorgu, Ph.D, Administrator of ICC, said was an occasion “to thank God for His many blessings” upon members of the ICC as …