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Monthly Archives: June, 2020

Resident doctors’ strike: FG orders attendance registers, meeting deadlocked

The Federal Government has directive all medical directors in the country to open attendant registers for striking resident doctors. The government gave the directive as...

Osun driver burns 18-month-old son with cigarette

A commercial driver, Mayowa Adeyemo, 32, on Tuesday, appeared before an Osun State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo for battering his 18-month-old son. Mayowa was...

New electricity tariffs effective July, says minister

The Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, has insisted that the new increment on electricity tariff would take off in July. He stated this on Tuesday...

Common steroid found to reduce deaths in sickest COVID-19 patients, researchers say

A common steroid drug that's been used for decades to treat conditions from altitude sickness to eye inflammation has been shown to reduce deaths...

ICPC seizes landed property from Bauchi State Governor

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC,  has seized a multi-million naira property belonging to the Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed,...

Military kills several bandits in multiple air raids

The Defence Headquarters says the Air Component of Operation Hadarin Daji has destroyed some armed bandits’ camps and killed several of them in a...

Appeal Court upholds Oshiomhole’s suspension as party chairman

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has affirmed the suspension of Adams Oshiomole as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).The...

DAY OF THE AFRICAN CHILD: A NURSE’S CALL FOR A CHILD FRIENDLY JUSTICE SYSTEM by Ijeoma Ilo

On June 16, 1976, nearly ten thousand black students from Soweto, South Africa, marched the streets to protest the poor quality of their education. They...

We won’t fly with your ‘hungry airline’ again: Naira Marley replies Executive Jets

Nigerian singer Naira Marley has replied the Executive Jets Services chairman who called him and his team ‘useless people”. He said he and over 20,000...

JAMB announces cut-off mark for 2020 admission

Heads of tertiary institutions have agreed on a minimum score of 160 for 2020/2021 admissions. They also adopted 120 for polytechnics and 100 for colleges. Speaking...

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