The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, D. Ibrahim Oloriegbe, said on Wednesday the National Assembly (NASS) is committed to achieving Universal Health Coverage (UCH)...
The Panda supermarket in Abuja was sealed off over alleged sales of expired products and implementation of discriminatory practices, the country’s consumer protection commission said on...
The Bauchi State government led by the incumbent, Governor Bala Mohammed has commenced the payment of the new N30,000 minimum wage to civil service workers in...
A Student activist, Ifemosu Michael Adewale who was expelled by the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta over some publications he made on social media and also...
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has approved the increase in the monthly allowance of Corps members to N33,000 in line with the new minimum wage...
The Federal Government of Nigeria led by President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked no fewer than 30 beneficiaries of its N-Power programme in Adamawa State. The sacking...
For fear of the unknown on Coronavirus, the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) on Wednesday shut down Panda Supermarket, Jabi, Abuja. The action against...
Justice Mohammed Mohammed of the State High Court 7, Sokoto State, on Tuesday remanded one Abdurazak Adamu in prison for allegedly defrauding the Nigerian Government of...
Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, on Tuesday convicted one Damilola Ahmed Adeyeri and his mother, Alaba Kareem Adeyeri for Internet fraud....
The Adamawa State Government said on Tuesday a pregnant woman has died from of Lassa fever infection in the state. The state Commissioner for Health, Prof....
The number of reported cases and deaths of coronavirus is doubling every couple of days, and patients have now been reported from many Asian countries, as...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Tuesday reopened the Maiduguri-Damboa highway, 13 months after it was closed by the military over Boko...
The Federal Ministry of Water Resources has intensified efforts to promote handwashing culture to prevent the spread of Lassa fever outbreak in the country. This was...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has issued a directive to its members to immediately go on a nationwide strike as soon as the Federal...
The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) has commenced a confiscation and destruction exercise of pirated and illegal films and music videos across the country....
Some Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Rivers State, on Monday, called on the Inspector General of the Nigerian Police Force, Mohammed Adamu, to immediately suspend the...
A woman identified as Rabi Usman has reportedly stabbed her husband to death in Katsina State. The woman, 19, was said to have stabbed her husband,...
The Kaduna State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Amina Mohammed-Baloni, said on Monday one person has died of Lassa fever in the state. She, however, said the...
The Adamawa State Government said on Monday it has discovered four suspected cases of Lassa fever in the state. The Director of Public Health in the...
A 42- year old former banker, Aghata Igwe, was on Monday arraigned at the Lagos Magistrate Court, Igbosere, for allegedly obtaining the sum of N42 million...
Lassa fever, also known as Lassa hemorrhagic fever (LHF), is a type of viral hemorrhagic fever caused by Lassa virus, a member of the arenavirus family...
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested three men for allegedly stealing a four-year-old boy, Hammed Adeniran. The suspects, Abubakar Saidu (22), Danladi Abdul Karim (30)...
Four persons were reportedly killed during a suicide attack on a mosque in Gwoza, southern Borno State, on Sunday. Gwosa, the administrative capital of Boko Haram,...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Sunday warned Nigeria and other member countries to be ready to deal with possible outbreak of the coronavirus in their...
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) on Sunday donated Lassa fever protective kits and drugs to support the Delta State government in its efforts to check...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has given an update on the number of lives lost and those infected following the outbreak of Lassa Fever...
Apart from the popular Amu Plank Market in Mushin area of Lagos that was razed by inferno on Saturday, four other buildings and facilities were ravaged...
Following the sack of elected local council officials in Oyo State and the subsequent appointment of caretaker committees to manage the councils’ affairs by Governor Seyi...
The Kaduna State police command said on Saturday that 20 kidnapped victims have been rescued from their abductors by its operatives. The latest feat brought to...
Mr Emeka Iloghalu, the Managing Director, Anambra State Fisheries and Aquaculture Business Development Agency (FABDA), has called on unemployed youths to key into aquaculture. Iloghalu made...
Director of Public Health, Enugu State Ministry of Health, Dr. Boniface Okolo has advised Nigerians to be conscious of their environmental hygiene to avoid being infected...
A robbery suspect, Ehuiwe Akire, has narrated how he and his gang carry out their operations while robbing bank customers of their money after leaving banking...
The FCT Police Command has arrested the Chief of Ushafa in the Bwari Area Council of the FCT, Alhaji Mohammed Baba and his secretary, Danlami Musa...
The Federal High Court 1, Akure, has sent Fisayo Adetoro, a final year Business Administration student of a private university in Ondo State to 13 years...
A student of the University of Calabar, Maxwell Lucky Enudi, on Thursday committed suicide after taking a liquid substance suspected to be a sniper. The tragic...
The Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency on Friday confirmed three new cases of Lassa fever in the state. The Executive Secretary of the Agency,...
The Oyo State Police Command said on Friday the late traditional medicine practitioner, Alhaji Fatai Yusuf, popularly known as “Oko Oloyun” was allegedly ambushed and killed...
A man simply identified as Gimba of Maratu village in Nasko Local Government Area of Niger state allegedly killed his wife, Aishatu, using a hoe, after...
The Management of the Nigerian Ports Authorities said it is set to put measures in place to control unnecessary congestion in the waiting time of vessels...
Five cases of Lassa fever have been confirmed by the Plateau State Commissioner for Health, Dr Nimkong Ndam in the state. Ndam while addressing newsmen, said...
Reinstating the child’s right to free, compulsory and universal basic education, the Kaduna state government, on Friday, advised parents to send their children to school or...
The first case of Lassa fever death has been recorded in Borno state after recent cases in Kano, Ondo and Ebonyi states. Dr Salisu Kwaya-Bura, the...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday said the terms of plea bargain offered by a lecturer with the Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State,...
The Oyo State High Court on Thursday discharged and acquitted the immediate-past Chief Whip of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Olafisoye Akinmoyede, of complicity in...
The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu has been chided for justifying the raid on a club in Ibadan by...
The Nigerian Governors’ Forum Chairman and Governor of Ekiti, Mr Kayode Fayemi has revealed, that states are working with the Federal Ministry of Health and other...
A Chief, Sunday Ayantola has been sentenced to one year non-custodian imprisonment by a Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin for parading himself as the...
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Alhaji Babatunde Oreitan, who is one of the leaders of the party in Ona Ara...
Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria’s North-East have killed an army officer and seven soldiers. They were reportedly killed in a confrontation between the Nigerian troops and...
The Akwa Ibom Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, has ordered the arrest of a police Inspector attached to the state police command, Bassey Ikpe, over alleged...
