By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – Health experts have raised concerns over the widespread neglect of oral health in Nigeria, warning that poor dental hygiene and lack of regular checkups are fueling preventable diseases. They linked the trend to low awareness, limited access to dental services, and the tendency to...
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President Bola Tinubu on Thursday said the rationale behind his administration’s economic reforms was to protect the interests of future generations. “For 50 years, Nigeria was spending money of generations yet unborn and servicing the West Coast of our subregion with fuel. It was getting difficult to plan for...
President Donald Trump took his contentious bid to end birthright citizenship in the United States to the Supreme Court on Thursday. Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, which he signed on his first day in office, was blocked by federal district courts in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington...
By OLA MODUPE , Lagos – Renaissance Africa Energy has completed the “acquisition of the entire (100%)” equity holding in Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC). This is according to a statement on Thursday by The spokesman of Renaissance Africa Energy Holdings, Tony Okonedo, announced this in a...
The Chairman of Senate Committee on Appropriations, Sen Solomon Adeola(APC, Ogun West), has urged the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) not succumb to what he called blackmail against the Nigerian Senate. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, who is serving a six-month suspension, had accused the...
By OLA MODUPE, Abeokuta – A 25-year old man, identified as Toye Dominic, has allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in a forest in Alagbodagbo Village, Ijebu Igbo area of Ogun State. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, CSP Omolola Odutola, confirmed this in a statement in Abeokuta...
Traditional doctors in Anambra have pledged their commitment to work with the state government to ensure the success of the ongoing sanitisation in the traditional medicine practice sector. Chairman of the group, Chief Innocent Okwundu, gave the pledge during a parley with leadership of the Anambra House of Assembly...
Minister of Works, Sen. David Umahi, has reiterated that the ongoing 700-kilometre Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is not waste of resources weaved with corrupt tendencies as claimed by critics. Umahi said this at the Second Stakeholder’s Engagement and the unveiling of the 71-kilometre alignment of the Ondo State Section of...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday, inaugurated its South-South Caretaker Committee, saying it is yet to conduct its congress for the zone. The PDP acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum, stated this while inaugurating the Chief Emmanuel Ogidi-led PDP South-South Zonal Caretaker Committee at the party’s national headquarters in...
The national leadership of Labour Party has extended the ongoing registration and revalidation exercise by the party to May. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, made this known in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja. Ifoh quoted the party’s National Chairman, Julius Abure, as saying after the...
Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes scored a hat-trick and Wilson Odobert was on target twice for Tottenham Hotspur as the two Premier League strugglers reached the Europa League quarter-finals on Thursday. Fernandes converted two penalties and got the other from open play as United came from behind to beat...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Former President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated his commitment to the All Progressives Congress (APC), stating that he is proud to be a member of the party. In a statement, Buhari emphasized that he wants to be addressed as a loyal APC member, expressing his...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Japanese fibre giant, Kanekalon collaboration workshop with the Osun State Barbing, Hairdressing, and Cosmetologist Association (OBHACA) have established and empowered local stylists in the state. The Kanekalon representative from Ghana, Miebi Egbebo, during the Association Collaboration workshop series in partnership with X –...
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara has called on members of the Rivers State House of Assembly to consider the interest of the people of the state and embrace peace to resolve the political impasse in the state. Governor Fubara made the appeal when he commissioned some projects in the...
Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, on Thursday filed contempt proceedings against Senate President Godswill Akpabio and others over alleged disobedience to the valid court order. Natasha, through her counsel, filed for Form 48 at the Federal High Court (FHC) in Abuja, following her six-month suspension by the Senate against the order...
Senate has passed a vote of confidence in the leadership of its President, Sen. Godswill Akpabio. This followed the adoption of a motion sponsored by the Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele (APC-Ekiti), at plenary on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the motion was seconded by Deputy...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kano – The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted a total of $1,154,900 (One Million, One Hundred and Fifty-Four Thousand, Nine Hundred US Dollars) and SR135,900 (One Hundred and Thirty-Five Thousand, Nine Hundred Saudi Riyals) undeclared foreign currency at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA)....
By HARUNA AHMED, Katsina- The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned a husband and wife, Baba Sule Abubakar Sadiq and Hafsat Kabir Lawal, alongside two others, Abdullahi Bala and Ladani Akindele, before Justice Amina Bello of the Kaduna State High Court for obtaining money by false pretense,...
Nigeria Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa, has reassured of the readiness and determination of the military to ensure that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) region is fully secured. Musa, who is the Chairman, Committee of Chiefs of Defence of ECOWAS, gave the assurance...