Women have been adviced against delivering babies at home to increase their chances of survival during and after childbirth. A Health Officer with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Bauchi Field Office, Oluseyi Olosunde, said this during a Media Dialogue to mark this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD) in Gombe state. Olosunde, presenting a paper…
The Imo State House of Assembly, on Thursday, confirmed all the commissioner nominees on the list sent by Governor Hope Uzodinma for ratification and confirmation. Among those confirmed by the Assembly are the immediate past commissioner for information and strategy, Declan Emelumba, the immediate past commissioner for works, Ralph Nwosu, and Chimezie Amadi, the immediate…
Labour unions in the North East have proposed N560,000 per month as national minimum wage. While the branches of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress, TUC, in the six states of the North East recommended a monthly minimum wage of N560,000, the Adamawa and Bauchi state governments recommended N45,000. The six branches…
The House of Representatives has mandated its committees to investigate the non-remittance of N5 trillion to the Federal Government by some businesses in Nigeria. The decision to go after the tax defaulters followed the adoption of a motion moved by Esosa Iyawe on Thursday during plenary. The House resolved to mandate the Committees on Public…
Nigerian comedian Oghenekowhoyan Onaibe Desmond, popularly known as Destalker, has opened up on his battle with depression. The comedian disclosed that he tried to take his life on three occasions. He shared his story in the latest episode of the Afrobeats Podcast. He stated that after graduating from the tertiary institution he could not get…
The trial of former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele, continued on Thursday before Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja as a forensic analyst confirmed that the documents used to request the payment of $6.2million for foreign election observers were forged. The witness, Bamaiyi Meriga, called by the…
A community in Chikum Local Government Area of Kaduna state has come under attack According to reports, bandits attacked a government primary school at Kuriga community abducting scores of pupils. The community is located along the Kaduna Birnin-Gwari Road which has been terrorised by bandits for many years. The police authorities and the Kaduna State…
About 238 Imo State University, IMSU, students have been recommended for expulsion from the institution due to their display of forged admission letters. The university said on Wednesday in a press release signed by Ralph Njoku, its Public Relations Officer, PRO, that the impacted students had fraudulently hacked into the IMSU and Joint Admission and…
Abia State Government has expressed worry over the spate of social media attacks on the state Governor, Alex Otti, saying the “well-coordinated campaign of disinformation and propaganda is sponsored by mischievous political interests.” But it vehemently warned the purveyors of falsehoods to desist from their nefarious acts to avoid causing crisis of national proportion while…
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has struck out two appeals filed by the Federal Government against a September 29, 2021 order of a Federal High Court barring it from reopening the trial of former Abia State Governor Orji Uzor Kalu and his firm, Slok Nigeria Limited, for money laundering charges. In the two judgments…
