In a bid to combat maternal mortality, the Lagos State Ministry of Health, in partnership with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Saving One Million Lives Programme for Results (SOMLPforR), organized a three-day training for healthcare workers. The training, held at the LCCI Conference Centre in Alausa-Ikeja from September 11-13, focused on the…
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Gwabin Musa, has extended warm greetings to Muslim faithful on the occasion of Eid-El-Maulud, celebrating the birth of Prophet Muhammad. This was contained in a press statement released on Monday and signed by Brigadier General Tukur, Director Defence Information. He urged Nigerians to reflect on the…
The Take It Back Movement has strongly condemned the detention of Omoyele Sowore at Murtala Muhammed Airport, calling it a “reprehensible act” by the Tinubu regime. The movement described the incident as a direct assault on the basic rights of Nigerian citizens seeking justice and democratic freedoms. In a press statement released on Monday and…
By Korede Abdullah In 2007, former President Olusegun Obasanjo sold several public enterprises, including Nigeria’s four refineries, through the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) after they had become severely underutilized. However, upon assuming office, his successor, President Umaru Yar’Adua, promptly reversed the sale of the refineries and restored fuel prices to their pre-increment levels (from…
An Australian genomics researcher, Stefan Mazy, has developed a new cancer screening test, which takes seconds and could save thousands of lives, according to local media on Sunday. The whole process takes under a minute. A second and larger clinical trial is likely to happen within the next six to 12 months, a report said….
The Nigerian Army has strongly condemned the dehumanizing treatment of an ex-soldier, Corporal Toriola Adewale, by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)/Biafra Liberation Army. This was contained in a statement on Sunday signed by Major-General Onyema Nwachukwu, Director of Army Public Relations. A disturbing video circulating online shows Toriola being brutally tortured and forced to…
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has launched an investigation into the alleged unjust incarceration of Seaman Abbas Haruna, a Naval rating, for six years. This move follows a circulating video clip that sparked public concern. In a press release on Sunday signed by Brigadier General Tukur Gusau, Director Defence Information, the DHQ assured the public of…
President Bola Tinubu has returned to Abuja from the United Kingdom. The Airbus A330 aircraft conveying the President touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at 10:40 pm (local time) Sunday. Africa Health Report (AHR) which monitored the development in Abuja, gathered that the President was received by the Minister of the Federal Capital…
Dangote Refinery in a swift reaction to a claim by the spokesman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mr Olufemi Soneye, has countered the organization while disclosing that it sold Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) to NNPCL in dollars. The Group Chief Branding and Communications Office of Dangote, Mr Anthony Chiejina, made this public…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) has announced that it purchased Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), known as petrol, from Dangote Refinery at N898 per litre. The first batch of petrol was loaded today, with over 300 trucks from NNPC arriving at the refinery in Lagos State. Speaking on Sunday, the NNPC spokesman Olufemi Soneye…
