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By Eranga Isaac Expanded Special Project for Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases will strengthen national programmes and help secure sustainable financing to combat diseases of poverty GENEVA – The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) on May 23, 2016 launched a major new partnership to help African countries reduce the burden of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The Expanded Special …

The South-east and South-south regions of the country dissolved into a state of anarchy yesterday when thousands of protesters clashed with security forces in Anambra, Imo, Enugu, Abia, Delta, Cross River and Ebonyi States, leading to the deaths of dozens of people, including three policemen, several sustaining injuries, and the arrest of scores of protesters in all the states where …

A terracotta figurative sculpture that was repatriated after it was intercepted in France while in transit from Togo to the United States in 2008 has been officially returned by French Government “I will like to thank the French Ambassador specially for his country’s show of support in our fight against illicit trafficking of cultural goods and their untiring efforts at …

Among thousands of blue-collar bikers wearing patches that called Jane Fonda a traitor, Donald Trump was received rapturously. On the Sunday of the Memorial Day weekend, the Republican presidential nominee attended the Rolling Thunder rally, a huge gathering on the National Mall in Washington DC. Speaking to a crowd that spilled down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, he was …

The Senate is currently battling to resolve the sharp disagreement between the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mallam Abubakar Malami, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over the Money Laundering Prohibition (Amendment) Bill sent to the National Assembly in January by President Muhammadu Buhari. Tagged an ‘Act to Repeal the Money Laundering (Prevention …

Barring any changes, the federal government would on Thursday, this week, make public the details of the recovered loots. It will be recalled that President Buhari had on the sideline of the Global Anti-Corruption Summit in London recently promised to name the alleged looters of the national treasuries on May 29, 2016. He said: “So far, what has come out, …

The Federal Government says it intends to make Nigerians look inwards by buying products, especially vehicles made in the country. The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, said this in Abuja. Onu explained that it was the only way to make Nigeria a producer country and to encourage local manufacturers to produce and grow the economy. “We already …

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has introduced electronic voting system in the conduct of legislative business of the House. Dogara, who last Thursday announced the adoption of the e-voting system, said it was in compliance of the 8th Assembly Legislative Agenda. Consequently, forms have been distributed to individual members to collate their data ahead of production …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said he never expected that former President Goodluck Jonathan would concede defeat so easily after the March 2015 presidential election. He said it was unbelievable that having spent 16 years in public offices ranging from deputy governor and state governor to being Vice-President and President, Jonathan could throw in the towel like that. Buhari spoke …

Ahead of the July 18, 2016 Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)-scheduled governorship primaries, aspirants in the state on Monday marched for peace and non-violence before, during and after the election. The commitment to a non-violent election was extracted from the aspirants in Benin City by the alumni association of the Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, during a procession round the …