By Gom Mirian   The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has reopened registration for the 2023 Direct Entry (DE) registration starting March 20 to elapse end of April 28. The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede made the announcement on Monday in Abuja.  According to him,the Board had to suspend the registration which had…

By Gom Mirian    The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged Ministries of Health to prioritize oral health as part of NCDs and UHC agendas and increase political and financial commitment to make a paradigm shift from treatment-oriented oral health care into more prevention and promotion approaches to address oral health inequality. The organization also…

By Juliet Jacob Witnesses said a minor disagreement between soldiers and policemen guarding INEC headquarters in the state snowballed into a crisis that lasted nearly an hour. According to sources, soldiers, who sent policemen away from the INEC collation centre, later invaded police headquarters and chased away police officers on duty. Injured policemen are currently…

    Nigeria among 10 countries bearing heaviest burden of child deaths from diseases caused by inadequate WASH   By Gom Mirian The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for urgent actions to address the water crisis in Nigeria, saying 78 million Nigerian children are at the highest risk from a convergence of three…

By Hassan John   The Governorship and House Assembly elections have been marred by voter apathy in Masaka, a densely populated suburb in Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. Findings by our correspondent revealed that all the polling units visited experience low voter turnout. Many residents of the area attributed this to the February…

  EFCC arrests over 65 persons for alleged vote buying   Despite assurances from security agencies and electoral umpire, unseemly violence, voter suppression and apathy smeared Nigeria’s governorship and state assembly elections today. The elections were held across Nigeria on Saturday March 18, 2023. There were cases of violence and voter suppression reported across several…

  By Hassan John   The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that Nigeria has made considerable progress in the fight against Tuberculosis (TB) but, however, warned that the progress is not good enough as Nigeria still has a lot of missing cases of the disease. The WHO National Professional Officer for TB, Dr. Enang…

  80 percent of all strokes occur among residents of developing countries – WHO    By Hassan John   The Federal Government of Nigeria has been advised to equip and recruit the needed manpower in the country tertiary hospitals so that they can tackle cases of stroke. Professor Kolawole Wahab of the Faculty of Medicine, University of…

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) takes centre stage as Nigerians again return to the polls to vote in the governorship and state house of assembly elections holding today, kicking off in less than an hour across the country. The polls come three weeks after a dramatic round of presidential and National Assembly elections,…