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Prof. Umar Pate, Dean, Postgraduate School, Bayero University, Kano State, has urged the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) to constitute a team to do a study of how the media can survive in future. Pate, a Professor of Media and Society,…

President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived Malabo Equatorial Guinea  for the  5th  gas summit  of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF). Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, said apart…

Forum of chairmen of Nigeria Political Parties (FCNPP), Kogi State chapter, has called on the National Assembly to expedite action on the amendment of the Electoral Act to curtail violence in elections across the country. Mr. Frank…

Feelers from the meeting called by the South-South leaders and elders in the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Thursday night, indicates that Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State did not only appear there, but did not send in any…

The United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF), said on Friday it had concluded arrangements to introduce a new programme, known as the ‘Child Funding Community Initiative’ in 15 states of the federation. Mr. Bhanu Pathak, UNICEF…

The House of Representatives has called on all tertiary institutions in the country to stop collecting acceptance fees from newly admitted students. Hon. Chinedu Emeka Martins who moved the motion on the floor of the House during…

The Pharmaceutical Council of Nigeria (PCN), on Friday, said it had sealed off 301 drug outlets in Akure and environs in its efforts to curb abuse and misuse of controlled medicines. The registrar of the council, Mr. Elijah Mohammed,…

Four police officers, including a female, are being investigated for allegedly seeking illegal extradition of a Nigerian based in the United Kingdom (UK). A reliable source from the Inspector-General Police (I-G) X-Squad, a unit that…

Andrew Ajijah Counsel to the governorship candidate of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), in Plateau State, said he would not accept the judgement of the Appeal Court, which dismissed his client’s petition on lack of merit and…

The Ogun State Government has canceled the monthly environmental sanitation exercise in the state. The state government said it has also lifted the restriction of movement order. This, the state government said, would enable…