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On this year’s World No Tobacco Day, the World Health Organisation, WHO has warned that smoking one cigarette a day can seriously harm a person’s health even as it disclosed that no fewer than 1.2 million non-smokers die from exposure to tobacco smoke. In a message to mark the day, WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti noted that tobacco kills …

Police Commissioner in Imo, Abutu Yaro, says operatives of the command have arrested suspected killers of Mr Ahmed Gulak, former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, in the state on Sunday. The CP confirmed this in a press statement issued to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday and signed on his behalf by the command’s spokesman, SP Bala Alkana. …

Barely twenty four hours a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmed Gulak, was shot dead in Owerri, Imo state, a former Enugu State High Court Judge, Justice Stanley Nnaji, Sunday evening reportedly assassinated by a yet to be identified gunmen in Enugu. Confirming the report in a statement, the Enugu State Police Command could not identify the victim as …

The sit-at-home protest ordered by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra MASSOB, recorded total compliance and success with all the residents of Onitsha and Nnewi and business outfits complying with the directive. All business activities were shot down, all markets were under lock and key public and private …

The publisher of Sahara Reporters and human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore has been shot by a police officer at the Unity Fountain, Abuja. Report had it that the 2019 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), was shot at when he was speaking with a detachment of police officers stationed at the public facility. At around 8:30am protesters were said …

Edo State Government has urged residents to continue to adhere to all preventive and safety protocols against the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) and leverage the opportunity of the second dose vaccination, which begins on Tuesday, June 01, 2021 to get full protection against the virus. Edo State COVID-19 Incident Manager, Dr. Andrew Obi, who gave the charge while speaking to …

Edo State Internal Revenue Service (EIRS), has hailed Igbinedion University, Okada (IUO) for being tax compliant, in its determination to encourage dutiful taxpayers. Leading the delegation of EIRS on the ‘Operation Know Your Taxpayers’ to the university and its teaching hospital, Executive Director, Income Tax, Prince Felix Isuku, stated, “Having looked into the records, the establishment has been found to …

The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has extended its strike ultimatum by two weeks to let the Federal and State governments address the issues of welfare of their members across the country. National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD). Photo/NAN The extension is contained in a communiqué at the end of the association’s 41st Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) which held …

When in May 2011, the then President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, assented to the Freedom of Information Bill, the Fourth Estate of the Realm celebrated its passage with a lot of expectations. Many stakeholders anticipated the positive impact the bill would have on the country. The journey was fraught with challenges. The bill had been pushed from 1999 to 2011 when …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Sunday elected a new leadership, led by Prof. Victor Emmanuel Osodeke to pilot its affairs for the next two years. This was determined at the national delegates conference of ASUU held in Awka, Anambra State. While Prof. Victor Emmanuel Osodeke of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike in Abia State was elected …