Month: March 2016
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Crisis Rocks University of Benin Teaching Hospital
Monday EBALU, Benin City It was a show of shame at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) as Medical Laboratory Scientists who are currently on strike assaulted and chased out a senior management staff of the UBTH for allegedly trying to implore other staff from a privately owned hospital laboratory to take over the…
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58% of Children In Northern Nigeria Affected By Malnutrition–WINNN
Ndidi CHUKWU Prevention is key to reducing child malnutrition in northern Nigeria as more than half of the children in five northern states suffer severe effects of malnutrition the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said Taking action to address the root causes of child malnutrition is key to reducing the staggeringly high rate of…
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Corporation Tasked On Development Of Film Industry
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has called for synergy between the Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC) and practitioners for speedy development of the film industry in the country. Mohammed gave the task after he inspected the corporation’s equipment and training institute in Jos, Plateau. “There is need for synergy between the corporation and…
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We Must Unite To Fight Evil – Osinbajo
Lola SERKI-IDAHOSA Worried by the criminal and social menace bedeviling the country, Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has said that Nigerians who believe in pursuing the good of the nation must partner the Buhari administration to fight against evil and those who perpetrate it in the country. The Vice President gave the advice in Fadan Kagoma,…
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AFCON 2017: Siasia Confident Ahead Of Egypt
…Says Enyeama Still Emotionally Broken Newly appointed caretaker coach of the Super Eagles, Samson Siasia has expressed optimism that he would lead the Super Eagles to victory against the Pharaohs of Egypt when the two team files out at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium in Kaduna on march 25th. Siasia was named caretaker coach of the…
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Plateau PDP Repositions For 2019
By Raymond GUKAS, Jos For the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Plateau state, the recent rerun state assembly elections in two of the three state constituencies are all that was needed to confirm whether or not, the party can still boast of its standing on the Plateau. The state, considered in many climes as the…
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President Buhari Pledges To Support Essential Drug Production In Nigeria
By Ndidi CHUKWU President Muhammadu Buhari has assured pharmaceutical companies in the country of government readiness to support them produce essential drugs locally, instead of relying on importation. The President spoke while receiving a team constituted by the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library to develop an agenda for the health sector in the country. The team…
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APC Mulls Oyegun’s Replacement
Sheriff ’s Emergence In PDP Throws Party Off Balance PDP NEC In Make Or Mar Meeting To Decide Fate Of NWC A new power game may be playing out in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to the effect that its National Chairman, John Odegie oyegun, may have been shoved aside to pave way for a…
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Auto Crash: How Ocholi, Wife, Son Died
Buhari, Others Mourn A legal icon and Nigeria’s Minister of State for Labour and Productivity, Mr. Ocholi James is dead. He was born November 26, 1960, he was 55. He died in a road crash on the spot, 57 kilometers away from Kaduna after a rear tyre of the Jeep they were driving in burst,…
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Infidelity: Jealous Lover Sets Self, Concubine Ablaze
There was pandemonium and a sense of confusion at Mbagbera district in Vandeikya local government area of Benue State when a man allegedly poured motor spirit, otherwise known as fuel on his concubine whom he had accused of promiscuity, after which he also set himself ablaze to be consumed in the inferno. An eye witness…