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Nigerians Urged to Battle NCDs with Good Nutrition

A renown physician, Prof. Dapo Akinkugbe, has charged members of the public to ensure they consume heart-friendly food to stem the spread of coronary heart diseases currently ravaging Nigerian. Akinkugbe who is also the President of Nigerian Heart Foundation (NHF), [...]

March 20, 2014 Health issues

Moringa Herbal Health Products Launched

Moringa herbal products have been launched in the country. According to the Vice President, Global Sales of the United Sates-based firm, Zija International, Ryan Palmer, the company would be investing over a million dollars to market the product in the [...]

March 20, 2014 General

HFN Urges Stakeholders to Transform Health Sector

The Healthcare Federation of Nigeria has called for a coalition of Nigerian stakeholders in the private health sector on quality healthcare delivery in a bid to promote and enhance medical care in the country. The President of the organisation, Mrs [...]

March 20, 2014 Health issues, Societal issues

IBM Set 10-year Plan to Address Cognitive Computing in Africa

The International Business Machine (IBM) has come up with a 10-year business model that will address cognitive computing in Africa. This, according to the company, will help develop data for the provision of solutions to Africans. IBM unveiled the plan [...]

March 20, 2014 Economy, Technology

Jonathan Appoints New Group Executive Directors For NNPC

In a bid to fill sensitive positions that are currently existing in the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), President Goodluck Jonathan, has appointed new group executive directors(EDs) for the corporation. The newly-appointed Eds and their portfolios are Mr Ian Gregory [...]

March 20, 2014 Government and politics

New cancer drug could extend life

Clinicians hope the drug, taken as an oral pill, will benefit patients with terminal forms of leukaemia and lymphoma who have run out of treatment options. Four patients in Plymouth, Devon, became the first to be treated with the new [...]

March 20, 2014 Health issues

AU Donates $5,000 To Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital

African Union Commission (AUC) has announced a donation of 5,000 Dollars to the Ethiopian Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa to mark the 103rd International Women’s Day. The Chairperson of the Commission, Dr Dlamini Zuma, made the announcement at a dinner [...]

March 20, 2014 Health issues, Societal issues

Calabar Carnival comes alive at Abuja Bantaba

Cross River State has led the tourism promotion business in Nigeria using the Carnival as it’s pivot, drawing participation from all over the world thus establishing the carnival as a must watch event in Africa. For most people who cannot [...]

March 20, 2014 General

World Cup slots: NFF earmarks N138m for Aki, Pawpaw

In the financial plan presented to the National Assembly, the NFF  had revealed  its decision to invite the duo of Chinedu Ikedieze and Osita Iheme, popularly called Aki and Pawpaw and eight other Nigerians in the entertainment industry   for [...]

March 20, 2014 Sports

Amaechi decries rise of insecurity in Rivers

Amaechi stated this yesterday, while performing the ground-breaking ceremony of the state council of Nigerian Union Journalists (NUJ) secretariat, at the Ernest Ikoli Press Centre, Moscow Road, Port Harcourt. Amaechi alleged that the rise in criminality in the state started at [...]

March 20, 2014 International

Turkish Airlines denies carrying arms into Nigeria

Turkish Airlines has denied  reports linking  it  with  the shipment of arms to unknown groups in Nigeria. A statement issued and signed by the airline’s general manager in Kano, Mr. Ahmet Can Akbuga said the carriage of arms and military [...]

March 20, 2014 Government and politics, Military

Echiejile Believes World Cup Will Lift Eagles

Elderson Echiejile has said a good showing at the World Cup in Brazil could further boost the careers of Nigeria stars. “A good performance at Brazil 2014 will help our various careers,” Elderson said on a special Airtel Football TV [...]

March 20, 2014 Sports

Asaba Residents Complain Of High Rents

Residents of Asaba and environs have complained about the increase in house rents in the Delta capital, saying that the situation had become unbearable. The residents laid the complaint on Sunday in Asaba, in separate interviews with the News Agency [...]

March 20, 2014 Economy, Real Estate

Food Security Will Ensure National Security-Minister

The Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, has submited  that the development of agriculture in Nigeria  would also ensure national  security. Ahmed  made this submission  when she received in audience, a delegation of the Zimbabwe [...]

March 20, 2014 Economy, Health issues

Fuel Tanker Fire Destroys Properties In Lagos

The long queues at the filling stations in Lagos occassioned by scarcity of fuel has caused a tanker fire in Lagos. The tanker fully  laden with premium motor spirit (PMS) also called petrol caught fire at a Mobil Filling Station [...]

March 20, 2014 Business, Oil & Gas
Goodluck Jonathan

FG Tasks NESG to Review 45-year-old Education Policy

•  To spend N288.7bn on basic education in five years Ademola Adeyemo and James Emejo President Goodluck Jonathan has challenged the Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG), to review the nation’s 45-year-old policy foundation of Nigeria’s education sector to meet current [...]

March 19, 2014 Education

South Africa explains expulsion of Rwandan diplomats

South Africa’s recent expulsion of four Rwandan diplomats and one from Burundi was based on evidence that the diplomats were involved in cases of murder and attempted murder on South African soil, International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said [...]

March 19, 2014 Africa

Search On for Country’s Top Tech Student

THE search for the country’s best technology student has begun. The initiative is the brainchild of Microsoft, the technology firm, under the auspices of its annual Imagine Cup students technology competition. A statement by the company said the aim of [...]

March 19, 2014 General

Nigeria’s Oil Reserves Drop To 35 Billion Barrels

A director at the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) George Osahon, says that Nigeria’s oil reserves have dropped from 40 billion to 35 billion barrels. Speaking to journalists on the sidelines pf the ongoing Oil and Gas Seminar here Tuesday, [...]

March 19, 2014 Business, Oil & Gas

Active mobile lines hits 127m as poor service persist

The number of active telephony lines in Nigeria rose to 127 million as at December, 2013, amid the prevalence of poor Quality of Service (QoS), according to the Nigerian Communications Communication (NCC). Only recently, the telecommunications regulator, asked India’s Bharti [...]

March 19, 2014 Economy, Technology

Implications of banks’ insistence on collateral for agric loans

Despite the Nigerian Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) launched by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to encourage banks to give un-collaterised loans to agribusinesses, banks still demand collaterals to lend to agricultural sector businesses, especially primary [...]

March 19, 2014 Agriculture, Economy

University fires students’ interest in agribusiness

Many Nigerian youths are lost in careers that are neither profitable to them nor the economy, so I invite them to return to agriculture.” This invitation was given by Omoniyi Jesubukunmi, president, Agricultural Students Association (AGSA) of Babcock University, Ilishan [...]

March 19, 2014 Agriculture, Economy

Generating 1m jobs from domestic wheat production

Today, Nigeria’s wheat import is about 4 million metric tons per annum and the import is estimated to grow at an alarming rate of 5 percent per annum. At this rate, the country will be importing 10 million metric tons [...]

March 19, 2014 Business

Insurers seek review of laws to cover oil, gas imports

Insurance industry operators are calling for the activation of various marine insurance laws to enable them cover associated risks with refined petroleum products imported into the country. This, insurers believe, has not be properly observed given that “The Insurance Act [...]

March 19, 2014 Business, Oil & Gas

Veterans salute Danagogo, crave NFF, NSC support at Ojidoh’s funeral

The new Minister of Sports, Chairman National Sports Commission has been told to build on the foundation laid by his predecessor in office. “There is a consensus in the sports community that your predecessor did well. You can do better, [...]

March 19, 2014 Sports

Costa Rica 2014: Colombia dares Flamingoes

Having secured a relatively comfortable three points with the 2-1 victory over China on Sunday,  Nigeria’s Flamingoes are aiming to cruise their way into the quarter final placement in Costa Rica U-17 FIFA Women’s World Cup. With the intense opening [...]

March 19, 2014 Sports

Jonathan to open 44th conference of estate surveyors in Uyo

Apparently determined to support quality infrastructure and to encourage building professionals in the country, President Goodluck Jonathan has accepted to declare open the 44th Annual General Conference (AGC) of the Nigerian Institute of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV) at the [...]

March 19, 2014 Business

Petrol, kerosene subsidy may go this year

Nigerians may need to brace up for a new petroleum pricing regime as the Federal Government yesterday announced that subsidy payment to petroleum marketers was no longer sustainable. Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison Madueke, stated this at the [...]

March 19, 2014 Economy, Oil & Gas

2nd Niger Bridge: Julius Berger pledges compensation for demolished structures

Julius Berger Plc has said that although construction works on the 2nd Niger Bridge has not reached the level of demolishing buildings, compensation would be paid for every building demolished in the course of the project. Speaking in a telephone [...]

March 19, 2014 Science and technology

Sugars in tequila could protect against diabetes, obesity

Tequila shots may do more than just lighten the mood at a party. The drink may be beneficial to your health. Tequila is made from the blue agave plant and Mexican researchers say the natural sugars derived from this plant [...]

March 18, 2014 Health issues