Security has been beefed up around the Edo State House of Assembly. This comes a day after members of the house served an impeachment notice on the State Deputy Governor, Phillip Shaibu. According to the House, the Deputy Governor has seven days to respond to the notice. Meanwhile, members of the Edo State Security Networks,…
The lawmaker representing the ward of former Governor Nyesom Wike in Obio/Akpor Local Government in the Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon Akor Prince Nna has announced his resignation. The lawmaker stated that he is backing Governor Siminalayi Fubara in the ongoing power tussle in the state. He has stepped down from his position as…
The move to impeach the embattled deputy governor of Edo state Philip Shaibu has not gone down well with indigenes of Jattu, in Edo North where the deputy governor comes from. On Thursday, thousands of youths, women and men, yesterday, protested to register their anger at the plot to impeach Shaibu, calling on the Edo…
The Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus (UNEC), Professor Daniel Nwachukwu, has urged Nigerians to take zobo leaves in curing hypertension and other ailments. Nwachukwu, a Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology at the university, shared this advice during the 201st Inaugural Lecture of the University held on Thursday in Enugu. Titled “The Marriage…
A gynaecologist and Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration) of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Professor Joseph Ikechebelu has said that with breakthroughs in science, the era of barrenness among women has been eradicated. Speaking at the take off of a two-day programme organized by a nongovernmental organization, the All for Women Initiative Nigeria (A-WIN), The medical expert…
Experts at the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority and the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, NSIA-LUTH, Cancer Centre, has hinted on early detection of cancer as key for management and survival of the dreaded disease. The experts who said people die from cancer due to late presentation urged Nigerians exhibiting signs of cancer to get treatment as…
The President of the Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association, NVMA, Dr Moses Arokoyo, has disclosed the willingness of the association to contribute N420 billion to the nation’s gross domestic product, GDP, noting that veterinarians play important roles in national development. Speaking during the 2024 NVMA Leadership Summit and Investiture Ceremony, Arokoyo advocated for increased veterinarian employment…
The House of Representatives has called on the Federal Ministry of Health to make available a prescription policy to monitor sale of drugs in the country. The House, which insisted such a policy must be enforced, charged the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria as a matter of urgency to shutdown illegal outlets of pharmaceutical products including…
A former media aide to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, Bashir Ahmad has criticized the Tinubu administration for its constant criticism of the administration of Muhammadu Buhari who like the Tinubu government is APC In a statement on his X handle, Ahmad said former Presidents Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan never criticized Olusegun Obasanjo because they were…
In a rather shift from the conventional practice of state government donating vehicles to traditional rulers, a good-spirited monarch in Anambra State, Igwe Dennis Ezebuilo, has donated a new vehicle to the government of the state. Igwe Ezebuilo who is the Traditional Ruler of Amanuke made the donation to the State’s Ministry of Women Affairs…
