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Three months after successfully carrying out three Open Heart Surgery (OHS) on patients at the hospital, the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) has achieved another milestone by successfully carrying out two kidney transplant. Speaking at a recent media parley in the hospital, the Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee of the hospital, Prof. Chris Bode who described the surgeries as another feat …

The Inspector General of Police (IG), Suleiman Abba, has promised that the 2015 general elections will be devoid of any form of rancour and will be accepted by all. Abba, who stated this on Wednesday during the monthly meeting with the rank of Commissioners of Police (CPs) and above at the Force Headquarters, ‘Abuja, said the mopping of arms and …

The current controversy over the distribution of Permanent Voter’s Card, PVC, by the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, has for the umpteenth time, thrown up fears about the commission’s capability at rewriting Nigeria’s history of flawed elections. Indeed, the apprehension is so terrible that the little sympathy the commission had garnered among Nigerians, is beginning to wane. Though it does not …

Success, my dear President, Aliko Dangote, the Nigerian 25th richest man on earth today, would admit, is not by accident. It is purely an act and art of deliberate planning. Hence, the saying that “to be successful has nothing to do with luck” is gaining global acceptability than it hitherto did in the past. People plan to succeed in business, …

The crisis rocking the Cross River State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP after the conduct of Ward congresses, yesterday took a new turn as governorship aspirants and other stakeholders from the state, warned that it was capable of scuttling the chances of the President and the party in 2015. Briefing Journalists yesterday in Abuja on behalf of PDP …

ABUJA—THE national leadership of Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, yesterday, faulted the inability of the Federal Government to secure schools, making innocent students vulnerable to activities of insurgents in the North-East. Meanwhile, Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, yesterday, decried the killing of over 48 school children of Government Science Technical School, Potiskum, Yobe, on Monday, killing over 48 students …

Abuja—The United States government, yesterday, condemned, in the strongest terms, the incessant attacks on defenseless civilians these past weeks by Boko Haram insurgents and urged the Federal Government to investigate and bring the perpetrators to justice. The government particularly frowned at the attacks on Ashura in Potiskum in Yobe State and in Gombe, Gombe State, on November 3; Malam Fatori …

Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State is the chairman of the Northern States Gover nors Forum, NSGF. Now in the last year of his second term, the former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Federal Capital Territory, MFCT, is presently a senatorial aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In this interview ahead of his birthday, the …

Mali scrambled Wednesday to contain an outbreak of Ebola as it confirmed the death of a nurse, its second fatal case but the first of the virus spreading within the country’s borders. Officials say the nurse died Tuesday after treating a man who arrived from Guinea at a clinic in the capital Bamako. The patient was suffering from kidney failure …

The son of Nigeria’s former Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa and a member of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, Abduljhalil Tafawa-Balewa has debunked news reports saying he has indicated intention of not picking the presidential ticket of the party. In an interview with Channels Television, Mr Tafawa-Balewa refuted the reports, saying he has not given up his ambition of becoming president …