The Senate on Wednesday urged the Federal Government to intensify efforts in funding the capital components of the three national budgets running concurrently in the country. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Solomon Continue Reading 

  Medical experts have emphasised the urgent need for a multi-tiered approach to retinal care to address the increasing incidence of blindness caused by diabetes in the country.    They highlighted that diabetes, affecting Continue Reading 

• CAN decries resurgence of criminality, urges action The Senate, yesterday, blamed the recent suicide bombing at Gwoza town in Borno State on failure of intelligence on the part of security forces.   Senate President, Godswill Continue Reading 

Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly will in the coming days commence a tour of the state hospitals and other health institutions to investigate widespread complaints of negligence of duty among health workers, as well as failed amenities in the Continue Reading 

• Inaugurates steering committee on open governance • Says prompt payment of salaries, others not achievement Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, has inaugurated a steering committee on Open Government Partnership (OGP) with a call Continue Reading 

The Federal Government, in partnership with the Swiss government and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes, (UNODC) has begun five-day capacity training for officers of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons Continue Reading 

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, yesterday, said that the state government had built more schools in the last five years than 10 years backwards. He also promised that the state government would build a medical university to cater for Continue Reading 

National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has announced plans for the establishment of research centres for emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain, among others across Continue Reading 

There was pandemonium at the Ugbowo campus of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) yesterday, as students took over the ever-busy busy Ugbowo-Lagos road to protest against power outage and lack of water in their hostels. The Guardian learnt that the Continue Reading 

Unlike what was obtained yesteryears when boxing greats like Mohammed Ali, George Foreman, and Mike Tyson, among others, dominated the sport in their early 20s, the world’s current boxing champions, and some of its biggest crowd pullers Continue Reading