Again, a call on arms to save the federal republic

The die is cast. After months of waiting for the Boko Haram insurgents to have a change of heart, the federal government eventually ran out of patience last Tuesday and went for the kill. Nobody...

DURING the celebration of his 79th birthday last year at the Kwara Hotels, Ilorin, Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki expectedly pulled a mammoth crowd of well-wishers from the nooks and crannies of the country. He was sandwiched by the members of his...

THERE were two meetings held sequentially: one, between the South-South and Southeast Governors, and the other among the South-South PDP Governors, Members of the National Assembly and State Party Chairmen.

Still, the meetings were not...

Oge Funlola Modie is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of NOI Polls Limited. She is the first woman to head Nigeria’s leading independent opinion polling and research organization.  NOI Polls Limited works in partnership...

Chief Maxi Okwu, lawyer, former national chairman of Citizens Popular Party (CPP), and newly installed chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), fielded questions on the crises in the party, the strategy to expand its control of the...

SPEAKER of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has said that the review of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) may not satisfy the yearnings and other agitation by Nigerians.

He made the remark at the opening of a three-day...

IMAGES from the three Nigerian satellites - NigeriaSat-1, NigeriaSat-X, and NigeriaSat-2- released recently by the National Space Research Development Agency (NASRDA) on the extent of damage caused by Military intervention at Baga, Borno State...

A SOMEWHAT rare planetary configuration is taking shape in the western sky, as Venus, Jupiter and Mercury move into close visual proximity.

There’ll be no alignment, as such. But they are all either entering or emerging from conjunction (to be...

• Nigerian engineers eye medal at 2014 Eco Marathon in Qatar

THE world is waiting for the next best environment-friendly and most fuel-efficient car as over 3000 engineering students and their professors from all over the globe are gathered in...

RECENT studies that examine links between sodium consumption and health outcomes support recommendations to lower sodium intake from the very high levels some Americans consume now, but evidence from these studies does not support reduction in...

THE prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is top on the agenda of the Sixty-sixth session of the World Health Assembly (WHA), which begins in Geneva from May 20 to 28, 2013.

A meeting of delegates from the WHO African Region...

LAGOS State government recently convened a state health council meeting to chart path to universal access in healthcare in the state.

The meeting, of all stakeholders in the state health sector, was to provide quality service delivery for about...

ONE million children who missed out on the Measles Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine around a decade ago are to be targeted in a national campaign to raise the level of protection against measles.

Alarmed by the Swansea outbreak, where almost 900...

DRINKING coffee every day can cut a man’s risk of prostate cancer by almost 20 per cent - but only if he gulps down six cups a day.

New research shows heavy coffee drinkers are less likely to develop a tumour than those who drink none at all...