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Healing, deliverance as Prophet Jeremiah Fufeyin storms Port Harcourt
By Theresa Moses The miraculous healing of Theophilus Allen, whose left leg was broken during a boat mishap that claimed the life of his sister, two months ago, was one of the highlights of a four-day crusade in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, by the General Overseer of Christ Mercyland Deliverance…
Read More »Roche Diagnostics partners ASLM for Pandemic Response Conference
Roche Diagnostics is partnering African Society for Laboratory Medicine ASLM 2018 for the fourth Biennial International Conference in Lagos in a bid to prevent and control the next pandemic in Africa with a focus on the “Role of the Laboratory.” ASLM plays an important role in advancing and strengthening laboratory…
Read More »Nigeria: FG completes 16 water projects in three years, as World Bank backs irrigation project with $495m
Nigeria’s Minister of Water Resources, Engr. Suleiman Adamu has confirmed that his ministry completed 16 water projects in across the country in the past three years. Among the projects to be completed the Minister noted include: Zobe water supply project, rehabilitation and rehabilitation of Fugar water works in Edo state,…
Read More »Don’t sell your future, Nigerians told
Presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has charged Nigerians not to sell their future by succumbing to alleged moves by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to buy their permanent voter cards (PVCs) for as little as N10. Atiku made the call in Ilorin,…
Read More »Underage marriage: 13 parents convicted
Thirteen parents in Niger State have been prosecuted for withdrawing their children from schools and forcing them into early marriage. Daily Trust reports that, the Commissioner for Education, Fatima Madugu, told journalists in Minna yesterday that the state government had initiated a legislation to make forcing a girl child of…
Read More »Senate wants planned increase in tariff on alcoholic beverages suspended
Senators in the Federal Republic of Nigeria want the planned increase on alcoholic beverages and tobacco products suspended. The federal government had proposed a 500 per cent hike in excise tariff on alcoholic beverages and tobacco products, but the senate on Wednesday directed the government to suspend the implementation. It…
Read More »N30m spent on maternal mortality surveillance in northern Nigeria
An estimated N30m was spent on maternal mortality surveillance across northern Nigeria in 2017. Coordinator of Sultan Foundation for Peace and Development (SFPD), Alhaji Samaila Muhammad Mera, made the revelation Tuesday in Abuja. Alhaji Samaila Muhammad Mera who is also the Emir of Argungu, said this in a one day…
Read More »Delta APC dares Oshiomhole
The threat by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Party (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole to sanction members of the party who dragged the APC to court without exhausting internal mechanism, has fallen in deaf ears. According to Punch, as a result, the Delta State faction of the party, led…
Read More »How early marriage, long distance, others push girls to top out of school children group in Northern Nigeria
The recent report by the Universal Basic Education Board (UBEC) of increase in the number of Out of School Children in Nigeria from 10.5 million to 13.2 million is worrisome to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and some other stakeholders in the country. Concerned by the development, UNICEF…
Read More »I was pressed to reject 2015 election result- Jonathan
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has revealed how he was pressured not to accept defeat in the 2015 election. Jonathan said despite the irregularities that marred that the election including the difficulty he faced before he could vote in his native Otuoke, Bayelsa State home, he conceded defeat principally because it…
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