Nigeria accounts for about 13 percent of the global maternal death rates with an estimated 36,000 women dying in pregnancy or at child birth each year....
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has decided to suspend its drawn-out strike by Tuesday. ASUP president Chibuzor Asmugha, who confirmed the suspension to Daily...
Following continuing mop up operations by men of the security forces inside the Darazo Forest in Bauchi State, which was stormed by troops last weekend, 80...
Hundreds of Ghanaian Muslims who entered Brazil as tourists for the World Cup have asked for asylum on religious grounds, police have said. Noerci da Silva...
Nigerian Military has said that the mopping up operations in Balmo forest is yielding more discoveries of arms stockpiled in underground cells in the forest. “Troops...
The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has decried the loss of 173 teachers to Boko Haram insurgents in North-East. The National President of NUT, Mr Michael...
President Goodluck Jonathan has nominated the current Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Road Safety Commission FRSC, Mr Ositadinma Benjamin Chidoka as a Minister of the Federal...
Organisers of ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ Campaigners have lamented over what it termed ‘harassment and intimidation’ by Nigeria’s security agencies. The group demanding the rescue of...
Council of State Tuesday assured that very soon the over 200 girls abducted by terrorist group, Boko Haram from Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State,...
A blast last month in Apapa, the port district of Nigeria’s financial capital Lagos, which the authorities said was a gas explosion, was a bomb attack,...
By Tim Cocks LAGOS (Reuters) – Facing censure at home and overseas for a perceived failure to protect civilians from violent Islamists, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has...
President Goodluck Jonathan is currently presiding over a meeting of the Council of State at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.PUNCH Newspaper gathered. The meeting which started at about...
