NHIS Executive Secretary, Prof. Usman Yusuf • NANS vows to paralyse activities on premises today • PDP criticises presidency for alleged complicity The embattled executive secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, Usman Yusuf, resumed work on Monday in defiance of a directive by the agency’s governing council. The council’s chairman, Dr Ifene Enyantu, […]
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as EFCC seeks support in fight against graft Ambassador of the United States (U.S.) to Nigeria, William Stuart Symington, has said that disregard for justice and rule of law is more damning a form of corruption than stealing of public funds. The U.S. envoy stated this at the 34th convocation lecture of University of Ilorin […]
Continue ReadingIbikunle Amosun • Nabena accuses Oshiomhole of arrogance, chair faults claim • Aggrieved chieftain decamps with 299 aspirants • Rivers APC factions differ on Supreme Court ruling Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun, has accused the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, of conniving “with a cabal in Lagos” to write fake […]
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Lagos State African Democratic Congress (ADC), gubernatorial candidate, Prince Olumuyiwa Fafowora, on Monday faulted the State House of Assembly for ordering the Private Sector Participation (PSP), to go back to the streets for waste management and disposal, declaring that the parliament had overstepped its boundary by taking such step. This is just as the ADC […]
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The Federal Government has announced that the country would soon commence the refining of gold as it had issued the first gold refining licence to a firm known as Kian Smith Limited. According to the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma, the Federal Government will also commence the purchase of gold from […]
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The Minister of State for Environment, Alhaji Ibrahim Jibril, said on Monday that the Federal Government was set to commence the clean -up of oil spills in Ogoni land. He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sidelines of the 2018 International Day for Preservation of Ozone Lay in Abuja that the exercise […]
Continue ReadingScientists Scientists have made two major breakthroughs in the quest for cancer cure.A new vaccine has shown early promise for patients. According to data from a phase I clinical trial, treatment with a HER2-targeted therapeutic cancer vaccine provided clinical benefit to several patients with metastatic HER2-positive cancers who had not previously been treated with a […]
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The entire world woke up on 2nd October to the rude and shocking news that Saudi-born journalist Jamal Khashoggi had ‘disappeared’ while on a visit to the Saudi Consulate in Ankara Turkey. Khashoggi had been an outspoken critic of the methods and excesses of the Saudi government under the de facto headship of Crown Prince […]
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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC),Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has hit back at governors of the party that are reported to be moving against him, saying he would not succumb to their antics and impunity. He said contrary to insinuations by some of them and their allying stakeholders that he was out to […]
Continue ReadingThe Federal Government has commenced moves to deploy underutilised power assets to deliver incremental power to industrial centres and the needy communities in the country by generating additional 4.2 gigawatts of power to national grid in the next 12 to 18 months. A statement by the Strategy and Communications Adviser to the Minister of Industry, […]
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