President Buhari’s remarks at CISSA Conference in Abuja

3.      This meeting today, 15 years since the founding of CISSA, is a measure of the organisation’s continuing relevance and an affirmation that the vision and...

 Oil theft: Community surveillance contractors to the rescue?

FEATURES: Checking high incidence of rape via stringent legislation

Checking high incidence of rape via stringent legislation By Martha Agas, Nigeria News Agency A Plateau High Court recently sentenced 40-year-old man, Sani Usman, to two...

Africans looking for another Mandela to give them hope

Africans looking  for another Mandela to give them hope Nigeria News Agency   The late President Nelson Mandela of South Africa The late President Nelson Mandela of...

Feature: Nwobu and the Task of Returning PDP to Anambra Government House 

By Chimezie Anaso, Nigeria News Agency The PDP controlled the state with Chief Chinwoke Mbadinuju as governor from 1999 to 2003 and Dr Chris Ngige from...

FirstBank: Committed to nation building through Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability initiatives 

      FirstBank: Committed to nation building through Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability initiatives Nigeria News Agency For First Bank of Nigeria Limited, it is not...

Boosting competitiveness of Nigeria’s cassava via policies’ review

By Femi Ogunshola and Bukola Olaifa, Nigeria News Agency The Presidential Initiative on Cassava, launched in 2003 during the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, was...

Pakistan aims to bring religious schools into mainstream

Pakistan has agreed on a plan to overhaul instruction at madrasas or religious schools to bring the institutions closer into line with conventional schools and curb...

U.S. gov’t aims to end asylum for many Central Americans 

The move would effectively block most asylum protections at the border, and is part of a wider crackdown on immigration by President Donald Trump. The new...

Indonesia’s Bali court sentence Russian man over smuggling orangutan

Indonesia’s Denpasar court in Bali sentenced a Russian, Andrei Zhetkov, to one-year imprisonment over violation of wildlife conservancy codes after his attempt to smuggle a protected...

Belgian royals surprised by historic letter on Germany visit 

Belgium’s King Philippe and Queen Mathilde were surprised on Wednesday by a recently discovered letter from the first Belgian king during their second and final day...

IPCR constitutes committee for celebration of Int’l Peace Day

The Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPRC) said on Thursday that it had constituted a committee for the forthcoming International Peace Day celebration. A statement...

COOUTH Doctors, Anambra Government’s Faceoff: Issues and Way out of Quagmire

Features: COOUTH Doctors, Anambra Government’s Faceoff: Issues and Way out of Quagmire The Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital (COOUTH), Amaku, Awka, has been embroiled in...

Stakeholders in S. East advocate scientific approach to management of non-biodegradable wastes – NAN Survey

Survey Enugu, June 30, 2019 Some stakeholders in the South-East have called on state governments to evolve a more scientific approach in the management of disused...

North West States take measures to mop up plastic waste – NAN Survey

State goverments of Kano, Kaduna, Kebbi, Katsina and Sokoto are taking measures to check the use of plastic materials and polythene to save the environment and...

S.West states adopt innovative strategies to confront waste challenge – A Survey

Faced with the seemingly intractable challenge of waste management, many state governments in the South West Zone are now adopting innovative waste-to-wealth initiatives to create a...

Feature: Combating Cultism, the New Face of Insecurity in Anambra

The menace of cultism has been identified as a major threat in Anambra, a state that prides itself as one of the safest in Nigeria. In...

Gabriel Okara: Remembering His Life as Final Call Stills His Waves 

Feature: Gabriel Okara: Remembering His Life as Final Call Stills His Waves Gabriel Okara, a Nigerian poet and novelist, has often been described as the first Modernist...

A Diary of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway: Tale of Nightmares for Motorists and Communities

Feature: A Diary of Lagos–Ibadan Expressway: Tale of Nightmares for Motorists and Communities The motorists and residents of communities on the ever-busy Lagos-Ibadan expressway are not...

What Shift Work Does to Human Health

Feature: What Shift Work Does to Human Health On daily basis, billions of people worldwide are into one form of shift work or the other, but...

Living with Endometriosis More Than a Bad Menstrual Pain

  Feature: Living with Endometriosis Not Just a Bad Menstrual Pain Many women, right from when they have their first menstrual cycle, experience varying forms of...

`Aso-ebi’: Gate Pass to Social Gatherings

    `Aso-ebi’: Gate Pass to Social Gatherings   A News Analysis by Busayo Onijala, News Agency of Nigeria   A popular Yoruba adage says, “Eni o...

FEATURE: Will `league of governors’ make a difference in the Ninth Senate?

  FEATURE:Will the `league of governors’ in Ninth Senate make a difference? A news analysis by Obike Ukoh, News Agency of Nigeria One thing is becoming...

FEATURE: Will the `league of governors’ in the Ninth Senate make a difference?