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Can the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Ali Pate, save Nigeria’s health sector?

Nigeria’s health sector has been struggling and retrogressing over the years due to several factors ranging from gross underfunding, poor remuneration of health...

BREAKING: FG to share N5bn palliative to each state, to curb the impact of petrol subsidy.

Babagana Zulum made this known while briefing State House correspondents on resolutions reached at the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting. Each state of...

Chadian political crisis: FG beefs up security at borders

Nigerian Army loses 36 soldiers in Niger State terrorists’ ambush — DHQ

Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, the Director, Media Operations, on Thursday confirmed the deaths of 36 soldiers including the two pilots of the MI 171...

VP Shettima chairs NEC meeting

Vice-President Kashim Shettima on Thursday presided over the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting at the Council Chambers of the State House, Abuja. Persecondnews...

Five suspected criminals busted with bags of fake dollars, pounds sterling, arraigned in court

Five suspected criminals, busted for possessing Indian hemp and two bags of fake foreign currencies, are facing prosecution at a Lagos court. The...

Lagos Court grants FG’s request to withdraw firearms charge against Emefiele

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has granted the Federal Government’s request to withdraw the charge of illegal possession of firearms against...

Just in: Suspended CBN Gov. Emefiele’s arraignment in Abuja stalled

The scheduled arraignment of the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele, on Thursday at an Abuja Federal High Court has been...

Air tragedy: Pilot collapses, dies onboard Boeing 787

A pilot, Ivan Andaur, has collapsed and died in a toilet onboard a Boeing 787 while flying from Miami to Chile. Andaur, 56,...

Paucity of funds: TETFund mulls exclusion of foreign scholars from FG’s scholarship program

With the scarcity foreign exchange and the difficulty in accessing it coupled with paucity of funds, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) daysy...

Cabinet: Tinubu allots portfolios to ministers, holds on to Petroleum Ministry, Wike for FCT, Alake Solid Minerals, Matawalle is Defence

President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday made public the portfolios of the ministerial nominees recently screened and confirmed by the Senate. According to a...

Just In: Nyesom Wike as FCT Minister as Pres. Tinubu releases Ministerial Portfolios

President Tinubu has appointed immediate past governors of Rivers and Ebonyi states, Nyesom Wike and Dave Umahi as Ministers of FCT and Minister...

76 days after inauguration, Pres. Tinubu to swear in ministers on Monday

Over 76 days after his inauguration, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will on Monday, August 21, inaugurate his cabinet. This was confirmed by a...

BREAKING: Relief for Naira as NNPCL Ltd secures $3bn crude repayment Afrexim Bank loan

In a bid to salvage and stabilize the exchange rate and shore up the value of the Naira, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company...

N6.9bn procurement fraud: FG to arraign Emefiele, accomplices on Thursday

The suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, and his accomplices will be arraigned for N6.9 billion procurement fraud...

N56m illegal drugs in FCT: NDLEA busts 343 suspects

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), FCT Command, says it has seized 3,022.529kg of illicit drugs valued at N56 million from January...

Davido splashes over half a billion naira on new necklace

Nigerian Afrobeat superstar Davido has presented himself with a diamond necklace worth half a billion naira As he wore the diamond neck necklace,...