A former Military Governor of Kaduna State, Col. Abubakar Umar (rtd) has cautioned Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari that history would not be kind to him if he insists on not redressing the glaring misdeeds of his administration. In a letter he addressed to the President on Sunday, the very... Read more

  From: Odimegwu Onwumere Pan African Re/Insurance Journalism Awards championed by Continental Re Plc has on May 27, announced winners of their fifth year awards at a virtual awards ceremony following travel restrictions occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic. This year’s award ceremony, was scheduled to take place during the... Read more

A United Kingdom based non-profit organisation, The Rural Gems (TRG) with operational office in Nigeria has expressed its willingness to transform the lives of rural Nigerian children through literacy and free IT training. With the theme ‘Inspiring learning among rural Nigerian children’, they bring libraries closer to rural children... Read more

Environmental lawyers in the Niger Delta have expressed concerns over the looming public health danger occasioned by the contamination and massive death of fish along the Atlantic coastline of the region. The lawyers under the aegis of the Association of Environmental Lawyers of Nigeria (AELN) on Sunday urged the... Read more

11 May 2020 – In response to mounting concerns around the impact of COVID-19 on malaria elimination efforts across the African continent, the African members of the End Malaria Council have released a joint statement and a four-pronged action plan calling on African and global leaders to act quickly to: protect the... Read more

The Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) (www.Dangote.com/foundation/), a philanthropic endeavor of Aliko Dangote, has contracted 54Gene, a molecular diagnostics company specialised in research, and diagnostics, to immediately set up a 400 test/day capacity laboratory in Kano State. This was made known in a statement by the Foundation and made available to... Read more

At least 14 people have been killed in armed attacks in Nigeria, authorities said on Sunday. Armed attackers killed at least 10 people in the southeastern state of Ebonyi, Ogbonnaya Chukwu-Ude, chairman of the Ivo local government area of Ebonyi, said at a press conference. Local media said four... Read more

Mr Iniruo Wills, Ex-Environment Commissioner in Bayelsa on Thursday called on oil industry regulators to priorities investigation of increased toxicity of Atlantic coastline causing massive death of fishes. Wills made the call in an interview in Yenagoa in a reaction to dead fishes littering the coastline across Delta, Bayelsa... Read more

A renowned Environmentalist Rev Nnimmo Bassey has urged governments and oil industry regulators to investigate the cause of dead fishes littering the Atlantic coastline in Delta and Bayelsa.   Bassey who made the call in a reaction to reports of massive death of fish by coastline residents noted that... Read more