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Benin City, Nigeria – The Executive Director of Center for Bioethics and Research (CBR), Prof. Clement Adebamowo has identified lack of government commitment to health research ethics, as a major factor affecting the health system in Nigeria. Prof. Adebamowo made this known in Benin City while commenting on the deepening research ethics in Nigeria (DREIN) project put together by a …

By Vanguard President Muhammadu Buhari is currently presiding over a special Federal Executive Council, FEC, at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja.  The special FEC meeting is aimed at finalising works on the 2019 budget proposal. The meeting started with the opening prayers by the minister of Sports and Youth Development, Solomon Dalung who said the Christian prayer and the …

The Coalition of United Political Parties on Friday faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to again withhold assent to the 2018 Electoral Amendment Bill. The coalition in a statement by its first national spokesperson, Imo Ugochinyere, said Buhari’s latest action portrayed him as a jittery President who is afraid of electoral defeat and yet desperate to cling on to power. It …

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the President of Nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, on his election as President of the International Trade Union Confederation. ITUC is the largest trade union federation in the world. The President’s congratulatory message was conveyed in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Friday. The …

President Muhammadu Buhari has again withheld his assent to the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2018, his Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters ( Senate), Senator Ita Enang, has just disclosed. Enang, spoke with State House correspondents but refused to state Buhari’s reasons, only admitting that the bill was returned to the National Assembly. He said: “The president has taken …

The National Association of Nigerian Traders has called on the Federal Government to involve it in the disbursement of interest-free loans to petty traders. The chairman, NANTS, Federal Capital Territory chapter, Edozie Ugwu, stated this at the TraderMoni loan disbursement exercise held at the Wuse market in Abuja. He noted that most of the beneficiaries are not members of the …

Nigeria’s Army Council on Monday December 3, 2018 approved the promotion of some senior officers of the Military Force to the ranks of Major Generals, Brigadier Generals, Colonels and a Lieutenant Colonel, respectively. The promotion was announced in a press statement signed by the Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Sani Kukasheka Usman. A breakdown of the promotion beneficiaries …

Three mortuary attendants, whom police accused of cutting off the two wrists and the heart of a dead woman, were on Thursday brought before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ court in Lagos State of Nigeria. The police charged Micheal Olusegun, 65; Oluseyi Olamade, 41; and Adetunji Aliyu, 45, with two counts of conspiracy and misconduct with regards to a corpse. The …

President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Femi Adesina, has said that the president would rather prefer to lose than rig the 2019 election. Mr. Adesina, who gave the statement while appearing on a programme on Arise TV, corroborated President Buhari’s stand to the citizens and the international community that the 2019 elections will be free and fair. Adesina ensured that his principal …

Members of the House of Representatives have approved June 12 as Nigeria’s new Democracy Day. The members approved this on Thursday while considering a report on “A Bill for an Act to Amend the Public Holidays Act, Cap. P40, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 to bring the Act in tandem with the current realities and exigencies of the …