A Consultant Surgeon, in Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano (AKTH), Dr. Garzali Ibrahim Umar, on Sunday, called on the newly elected leaders in the country to assist in the training/provision of liver surgeons in Nigeria, lamenting that at the moment, the country doesn’t have any. The Chairman Local Organising Committee for the 2nd Liver Surgery […]

Nathaniel Shaibu, Abuja The Federal Capital Territory has called on the media and members of the public, not to address the Permanent Secretary of the FCT Administration, Olusade Adesola, as the Acting Minister. The FCTA made the clarification, following reports in some media assigning the designation of Acting Minister, to the Permanent Secretary. In a […]

More than a third of men in Germany find violence against women “acceptable”, according to survey results that campaigners described as “shocking” on Sunday. A total of 33 percent of men aged 18-35 said they found it “acceptable” if “their hand slipped” occasionally during an argument with their female partner, according to the survey set […]

As the negotiations between the Federal Government and organised labour entered its second week, the new petrol pump price has taken its toll on Nigerians for real. Commuters pay almost thrice their previous transport fares as prices of food commodities dance to the new beat. Perceived to be the voice of working-age citizens, the Nigerian […]

Dinner, drinks and a selfie with Lionel Messi sounds like every football fan’s dream, but Chinese police have warned it’s just one of numerous scams surrounding his visit to Beijing. The Argentine legend’s presence in China for a friendly against Australia in the capital on Thursday has drawn scammers and ticket scalpers desperate to capitalise […]

Bauchi State on Saturday moved to vaccinate girls in the state against Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). It plans to target girls between the ages of nine years and 14 years as HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection. The Bauchi Primary Health Care Development Agency (BASPHCDA) consequently inaugurated a Technical Working Group (TWG) to […]

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sued President Bola Tinubu, over “the failure to probe the allegations that USD$2.1 billion and N3.1 trillion public funds of oil revenues and budgeted as fuel subsidy payments are missing and unaccounted for between 2016 and 2019.” SERAP filed a lawsuit against Tinubu at the Federal High Court […]

Thousands of people living near a Philippine volcano have taken shelter in evacuation centres as officials warned Sunday of health risks from ash and toxic gases spewing from the rumbling crater. Seismology researchers said they had recorded at least one volcanic earthquake in the past 24 hours and red-hot rocks were falling from Mount Mayon […]

The Executives of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kassa ‘A’ Ward of Yorro Local Government Area of Taraba State on Sunday affirmed the membership of the immediate past Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr. David Ishaya. The Ward Executives also suspended the Local Government Chairman of the party, Mr. Anthony David who hails from the same Kassa […]

Benue State Government has set up a committee to recover all looted government property by the immediate past government. Recall that Governor Hyacinth Alia through his Chief Press Secretary, Tersoo Kula had a few days ago decried the looting of government vehicles by the immediate past government headed by Samuel Ortom. Tersoo had said, “The […]