Month: May 2014

Nigeria has been ranked second after India in the list of countries with the highest cases of malnourished children in the world as it accounts for 10 percent of the...

President Olusegun Obasanjo has  said successive governments in Nigeria do not continue or implement good policies  and programmes of their predecessors  because of the intent to perpetrate corruption  and greed....

The executive arm of government and the media were yesterday fingered for the inability of the federal lawmakers to effectively probe appropriation accruing to security agencies and also conduct oversight...

The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) have dismissed the claim by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)...

President Barack Obama was  Wednesday urged to waive US laws limiting its desire to help Nigeria in the fight against Boko Haram.\   The Chairman of the US House of...

A new report made public yesterday by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland indicated that inequalities around the world was killing people on a higher scale unprecedented in...

The Lagos State Government yesterday said it had commenced pilot teaching and learning of Chinese (Mandarin) language in five schools in the state.   The state Commissioner for Education, Mrs....

Two leading opposition politicians in the country, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Senator Bola  Tinubu have accepted President Jacob Zuma’s invitation to be among his guests at the South African...

President Goodluck Jonathan and the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, have asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to throw out a suit seeking...

A bill seeking to prohibit the development, production, transfer and use of chemical weapons in Nigeria through the establishment of a native authority that will guarantee effective implementation of chemical...