The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration (NAFDAC) has approved Typhoid Check, a new product meant for the diagnosis of the deadly typhoid fever. Pioneered by a Nigerian Paediatrician and Internist at the...
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Gone But Not Forgotten
Being text of the remarks by Prof. Olatunde Makanju, NAS Capone, National Association of Seadogs, at the memorial event organised by the National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates Confraternity) in honor of Late Chido...
Peace Legislation and the Island of Pyrates
Being text of the welcome address delivered by Prof. Olatunde Makanju, NAS Capone, National Association of Seadogs, at the 10th Annual Wole Soyinka Lectures Series, held at the Council Chambers, North York Civic...
Second phase of N48b food security scheme begins
Following the conclusion of the first phase of the National Programme for Food Security (NPFS) launched in November, 2001, the Federal Government yesterday floated the expanded phase of the programme estimated to cost...
NNPC sets December deadline to revive refineries
Nigerians should expect functional Kaduna and Warri refineries by the end of December this year, the acting Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Alhaji Lawal Yar'Adua, has...
Nigeria okays convention on aircraft acquisition
Nigeria has ratified the international convention on access to cheap funds for aircraft acquisition by local airlines. The instrument was signed in Dublin, Ireland, last week by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority...
Ladoja reports to police
The immediate past Governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Rashidi Ladoja, and some of his aides on Monday reported at the Special Fraud Unit of the Force Headquarters Annex, Alagbon, Lagos. Ladoja and others were invited by the...
Obasanjo bought 80,000 guns to rig April polls
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja will today determine whether former President Olusegun Obasanjo could be questioned over his handling of the April 21 presidential election. This came just as the...
Terror threat: IG meets embassies’ security officers
The Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, on Monday met with the chief security officers of all the embassies in the country. The meeting came barely four days after the United States warned that Nigeria...
Panel stops renovation of speaker’s house
The panel investigating the N628m contract scandal in the House of Representatives has directed that the ongoing renovation of the residences of the Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Etteh, and her deputy, Alhaji Babangida...
Utomi Calls for Increase in Police Funding
Prof. Pat Utomi, presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) party hereby calls on the federal government to as a matter of urgency activate a dramatic increase in funding allocations to state...
Uncle Sege: Nigeria’s Award Winning Comedian
Over the last few weeks the former democratic dictator of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo Matthew Okikiola Aremu aka Baba Sege has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Interestingly I read a wonderful piece in...