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Month: January 2021


Heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular incidents can be cut by 20 to 40 per cent through use of a polypill, which combines three blood pressure medications and a lipid-lowering drug, taken alone or with aspirin. An international study of Read more…


Four farmers from Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa and Rivers States, have expressed excitement over the ruling of the Dutch Appeal Court sitting in Hague, which ordered Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to pay compensation to them.Milieudefensie, the Dutch branch of Friends Read more…


About 48 hours after drowning, the remains of Delta State Polytechnic graduate, Mr. Friday Abiligo Orhomre, has been found and buried amid tears and wailing. The blooming graduate of Mechanical Engineering from Otefe Polytechnic, Oghara, drowned at Ughoton river last Read more…


President Muhammadu Buhari said his prompt signature on the amended law of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has resolved the long-term non-recognition of graduates of the institution. He stated this on Saturday during the university’s combined 9th and Read more…


Reddington Hospital has told the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS related abuses and other matters that it treated an overwhelming number of persons with gunshots or other wounds from the Lekki Toll Gate Read more…


The Coalition of South East Youth Leaders (COSEYL), the apex socio-political youth organization in the South East geopolitical zone comprising youth leaders from Southeast has described as an insult, recent comment credited to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) disparaging Read more…


As nationwide discussions continue following the eviction order by the Ondo State governor, Rotimi Akeredolu to Fulani herdsmen to leave the state’s forests, prominent pro-Fulani voice and former Executive Secretary of National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Prof Usman Yusuf has Read more…


The inhabitants of Igangan community in Oyo State are currently living in fear of possible reprisal attack by killer herders in reaction to their recent eviction from parts of the state following the ultimatum given to them by a Yoruba Read more…


Pandemonium broke out at the venue designated for the election of officers of Uruagu Nnewi quarter scheduled for January 30th, 2021.Apparently, there has been a running battle between factions backing various candidates who are vying primarily for the President General’s Read more…


World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson Margaret Harris has said that it is morally and economically right to help with immunisation worldwide rather than “rushing” to vaccinate everyone in one country. “There have been a number of very interesting analyses showing Read more…


By Isaac Ojo The lawmaker representing Nnewi North, Nnewi South and Ekwusigo Local Government Areas in the House of Representatives, Hon Chris Azubogu on Friday gave notification to contest for Anambra State governorship election under the platform of the Peoples Read more…


Senate Chief Whip, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu has called for synergy between the South East, South South zones of the country. Kalu made the call at his Igbere country home in Bende Local Govern seement of Abia State, yesterday during Read more…