The Federal Government will promote all family planning methods to achieve a contraceptive prevalence of 36 per cent by 2018, the Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, has said. The minister, represented by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Mr Linus Awute, made the statement in Abuja on Thursday at the national family planning stakeholders’ […]
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, has said it is unfair for anybody to see President Goodluck Jonathan as the problem in the case of the over 200 schoolgirls abducted in Chibok, Borno State about three months ago. He said the attempt to ignore the issues and paint Jonathan […]
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday assigned portfolios to the four new ministers recently confirmed by the Senate. The new ministers and their portfolios are: Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau -Minister of Education; Dr. Stephen Oru -Minister of Niger Delta Affairs; Mr. Adedayo Adeyeye -Minister of State, Works; and Dr. Abdul Bulama -Minister of Science and […]
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria on Tuesday announced that the runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport will be closed again for another 30 hours in order to rehabilitate its remaining section.This is coming as the authority also announced the re-opening of the runway which was closed for 30 hours between last Saturday night […]
[print] Boko Haram 5 | credits: @DefenceInfoNG Troops have cleared and taken over Balmo Forest in a military operation that lasted throughout the weekend, the Defence Headquarters has said. Prior to the operation, Balmo Forest, which stretches from Bauchi through Jigawa states with links to the fringes of the Sambisa Forest, was used by terrorists […]
STERN-looking security operatives were on Monday deployed in the entrance to the venue of the ongoing National Conference, apparently to forestall unsavoury occurrence as delegates expressed anger over the confab’s recommendation for creating new states. The National Conference had on Thursday endorsed the carving out of 19 new states from the existing ones but some […]
SOME Islamic elite have written to the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, asking him to lead the dialogue with members of the terrorist Islamic sect, Boko Haram. The elite, writing under the aegis of Concerned Muslim Professionals, told the Sultan, who is also the President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, […]
Nigeria is suffering greater carnage at the hands of Islamist group Boko Haram than it did during a secessionist civil war, yet this has ironically made the country’s break-up less likely, Nigerian Nobel Literature Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said. Speaking at his home surrounded by rainforest in Abeokuta, Soyinka said the horrors inflicted by […]
Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh | credits: http://www.nigeriancurrent.com/ THE bloodbath in the North-Central states has continued for so long, inuring the public and media to an unfolding human tragedy. While national and global attention is riveted on the atrocities of Boko Haram terrorists, bloodletting, arson, brigandage, rape and impunity are on the […]
The Chairman, Northern Governors Forum and Governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu, has warned Nigerians against politicisation of the census saying that previous head counts failed to achieve the desired results because of the way it was handled. Nigerians preferred to see census as a means of getting higher returns from the national purse instead of […]
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