The Nigeria Army in Calabar has trained over 350 men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC in the area of arms handling and maintenance. Benito Eze, the Rivers State commandant of NSCDC disclosed this on Saturday urging the trained members of the corps to effectively utilize the skills and knowledge they have…
Lagos NUJ Games to Get N5 million
Muneer Bankole, the Managing Director and Chief executive officer of Med-View Airline has promised to sponsor the next annual games of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, with a sum of N5 million. He made the pledge today while giving his opening remarks at the opening ceremony of the Med-View NUJ Media Games 2014 held…
Women’s Birth Contraction Switch Discovered
Women are known to experience varying degrees of pain and difficulty during childbirth with overweight pregnant women considered to be at higher risk of stillbirth, foetal death and other pregnancy-related problems, as a study led by Imperial College London recently confirmed. Having taken muscle biopsies from the uterus of 70 women, a group of Australian…
Ojukwu Emerges New Police Spokesman
Suleiman Abba, Nigeria Inspector-General of Police has appointed Emmanuel Ojukwu, Deputy Commissioner of Police, as the new Force Public Relations Officer, PRO. Ojukwu replaces Frank Mba, an Assistant Commissioner of Police who was the Force PRO from February 2012 to August, 2014 and has been redeployed to Lagos State Command as an Area Commander, Area…
‘Ebola Prevention Should be More of Sensitization’- Femi Gbadebo
Femi Gbadebo, founder of Benola, a Cerebral Palsy initiative has hinted that preventing the spread of Ebola virus has to do with more of sensitisation than diverting huge sums of money towards the cause. He stated this on Thursday at the Combo Hall of the Lagos State Television, LTV while acting as the Chairman of…
NFF Presidency: Odegbami, Ogunjobi, Umeh disqualified
The Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Football Federation, NFF, has disqualified three major aspirants for the post of the President of the football federation. Those disqualified are Segun Odegbami, ex-Nigerian international and 1980 Nations Cup winner; Taiwo Ogunjobi, also an ex-international and suspended member of the NFF executive committee; and Victor Umeh, current Acting Chairman…
Ebola: Government Postpones Schools Resumption
The Federal Government on Tuesday approved the extension of the current holiday of primary and secondary schools across the country as part of measures to curtail the spread of the Ebola Viral Disease, EVD in the country. Comrade Jude Imagwe, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Youth and Students Matters disclosed this in Abuja…
Jonathan Swears in Chidoka, Suleiman as Ministers; Appoints New FRSC Boss
President Goodluck Jonathan today swore-in Osita Chidoka, immediate past Corp Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, as the new minister of aviation. The president also swore in Abubakar Suleiman, a former lecturer at the University of Abuja, as the Minister of National Planning who will also serve as deputy chairman of the National Planning…
Second Blast Hit Kaduna
Barely two hours after a bomb blast killed no fewer than 25 persons this afternoon at Isa Kaita road, a city center in Kaduna, along the popular Murtala Square, another bomb has just exploded in the Kawo area of the city. The first bomb was reportedly concealed in a red Volkswagen golf car and was…
Second Blast Hit Kaduna
Barely two hours after a bomb blast killed no fewer than 25 persons this afternoon at Isa Kaita road, a city center in Kaduna, along the popular Murtala Square, another bomb has just exploded in the Kawo area of the city. The first bomb was reportedly concealed in a red Volkswagen golf car and was…
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