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The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has raised alarm again over resurgence of Lassa Fever, with two confirmed cases recorded in Abuja. FCTA’s Secretary, Health and Environmental Services Secretariat, Dr. Adedolapo Fasawe. Disclosed this in Abuja on Monday, January 22, while briefing reporters on the latest development.   Fasawe stated that already two cases were established, but no mortality, after an …

…Patients lament, skip medications, seek alternative treatment…Experts worry, propose urgent solutions In Nigeria, falling sick can be challenging in normal times but seeking treatment is currently a double blow as the financial implication has become increasingly unbearable for many Nigerians. The cost of basic drugs, such as antibiotics, analgesics, anti-diabetics, and key medications for chronic conditions, has doubled, tripled, or …

The federal government on Monday, January 22, assured that the soon-to-take-off Student Loan Scheme will be devoid of human intervention as every step of the process would be totally automated on an application, specifically designed for the purpose. This assurance was given by the Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of the Students Loan Board, Dr Akintunde Sawyerr, who spoke, …

BENIN CITY – Undergraduate students in the Ekewan campus of the University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria on Monday locked out  academic and non-academic staff of the University in protest over lack of electricity supply to their hostels since last year. Also locked out are staff and students of the Consultancy School, a private co-education secondary, primary and nursery school …

• Experts task FG, labour on speedy, rancour-free negotiation• Warn against unrealistic wage hike• Canvass interventions in education, health, housing, other sectors• Minimum wage below UN poverty line impoverishes, NLC insists The battles for national minimum wage in Nigeria by organised labour date back to 1981 during the civilian government of Shehu Shagari when the government approved N125 per month as …

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has said its operatives in collaboration with the Nigerian Army have rescued five sisters of Nabeeha Al-kadriyar and other Abuja kidnap victims from Kajuru forest in Kaduna State. Nabeeha Al-kadriyar and her five sisters, were among persons abducted at Zuma 1 Area of Bwari Area Council, the nation’s capital city on January 2, 2024. Tribune …

The frontlines of Russia’s war in Ukraine have become infested with rats and mice, reportedly spreading disease that causes soldiers to vomit and bleed from their eyes, crippling combat capability and recreating the gruesome conditions that plagued troops in the trench warfare of World War I. A Ukrainian servicewoman, who goes by the call-sign “Kira,” recalled how her battalion was beset last …

Gunmen kill school principal for resisting abduction, kidnap two women Kidnappers open fire on Abuja highway, abduct man driving home with wife Police arrest officers for kidnapping, extorting $3,000 from man in Aba Security onslaught on terrorism raged across the country yesterday with the police deploying the newly launched Special Intervention Squad (SIS) in the bush of Bwari, Abuja where …

Former President Donald Trump spent the three-year anniversary of his White House departure trying to sweep away the few remaining Republican obstacles to his third consecutive nomination, hammering former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and warning supporters against complacency two days ahead of the New Hampshire primary. “We need big margins,” Trump said at a rally in Manchester, “because we have to …

Raging fire gutted the popular 10-storey Mandilas Building, located on Broad Street, Lagos Island, on Sunday destroying items and properties worth several millions of naira in the process. According to an eyewitness, the incident occurred at about 1.15 p.m., when traders were not open for business. Director, of Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, however, confirmed that there …