Day: 1 December 2015

AN estimated 2.9 million people living with HIV/AIDS out of 3.4 million Nigerians diagnosed last year are not receiving treatment needed to suppress the infection. Those affected, most of who...

ABUJA—THE Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has advised the management of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, to take the Employees Compensation Scheme, ECS, to the Nigeria...

Lagos—As Nigeria today joins the rest of the world to mark 2015 World AIDS Day, the World Health Organisation, WHO, yesterday announced that the Millennium Development Goal that called for...

IN the eight years of Obasanjo’s presidency, there was no headline-grabbing demand for Biafra.   Ditto for the eight years of the Yar’Adua/Jonathan presidency.   However, within months of Buhari’s presidency, the...

MAIDUGURI— Following repeated accusations by Amnesty International and other international rights groups of brutalization and human rights abuses by the Nigerian Army in the war against Boko Haram insurgents, the...

FROM a seamless electioneering campaign to an acrimonious polls and now a season of inconclusiveness: inconclusive death, inconclusive election and inconclusive replacement, the brouhaha generated by the Kogi polls is...

ABUJA—The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday announced a loss of N240.987 billion in its operations for 10 months, between January and October 2015. The NNPC, in its Monthly Oil...

As the River Nile runs from Victoria in Uganda to Egypt, so activism runs in the family of the traditional ruler of Afaraukwu in Umuahia, the Abia State capital. From...

OWERRI—Operatives of Imo Security Network, ISN, in collaboration with Imo Community Watch, ICW, have rescued an eight-year-old boy (names withheld), who was kidnapped by hoodlums. The lucky boy has been...

The Business Planning Manager, Saudi German Hospital (SGH), Iftakhar Asfi  has stated that the hospital management will be establishing, at least, two hospitals in Nigeria, as well as partnering with...