The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Tuesday said it has suspended its planned mass action scheduled for Thursday, pending the outcome of the Kano State House of Assembly Investigative panel on Governor Abdullahi Ganduje’s alleged bribe video. The student body had on Friday gave President Muhammadu Buhari a seven-day ultimatum to probe the authenticity
Stakeholders in health sector have urged the Federal Government to include Family Planning (FP) and other primary healthcare services provided by Community Pharmacists (CPs) and Patent and Proprietary Medicines Vendors (PPMVs), in information platforms. The stakeholders made the call at the inaugural meeting for the development of PCN FP and other Primary Health Care (PHC)
Saudi Arabia is in “crisis” in the face of international outrage over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said Tuesday at an investment summit boycotted by a host of global CEOs and policymakers. The three-day Future Investment Initiative (FII) was meant to project the historically insular petro-state as a lucrative business
The Commissioner for Water Resources and Energy in Plateau, Mr David Wuyep, on Tuesday, said the state government had resuscitated the four abandoned water treatment plants in the state. Wuyep, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos, said the affected plants were located in Pankshin, Shendam, Mangu and Bokkos Local
President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigerians who feel they have another country may choose to go. According to Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, Buhari said this when he received Kwara state All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates for the 2019 polls. Adesina quoted Buhari to have said he and others who do not have another country would stay
NIGERIA’S Vice-President,Professor Yemi Osinbajo says whenever he wants to sack a public official who has been found to be corrupt, he gets many calls from religious and political leaders not to do so. Speaking on at 24th Nigerian Economic Summit plenary on corruption and rule of law, in Abuja on Monday, the vice-president said the
Eighty-five-year-old Paul Biya has been declared winner of the October 7 presidential election by the Cameroon’s Constitutional Council. Biya won the poll with 71.28% of the votes cast beating eight other candidates to extend his 36-year rule of the Central African country to 2025. Opposition leader, Prof Maurice Kamto who had earlier declared himself winner
Foreigners sold a net 4.01 billion riyals ($1.07 billion) in Saudi stocks in the week ending October 18, exchange data showed on Sunday –one of the biggest selloffs since the market opened to direct foreign buying in mid-2015. The selloff came during a week when investors were rattled by Saudi Arabia’s deteriorating relations with foreign
THE leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Ralph Uwazuruike, has told the Igbo to ignore the things Nnamdi Kanu, leader of Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) said on Sunday. Uwazuruike, who spoke in Owerri, Imo state on Monday, said Kanu’s directive to the Igbo to boycott the
The police say they are not aware that some officers accompanied Usman Yusuf, executive secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), to office on Monday. Yusuf was suspended by the NHIS governing board last week but he had argued that his suspension was illegal and that he would resume office nonetheless. He had said