Former Chairman of the Nigerian Economic Summit and Presidential aspirant under the umbrella of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mazi Sam Iheanyichukwu Ohuabunwa has identified four demons troubling Nigeria. Ohuabunwa who addressed members of the Network of African Christian Journalists (NACJOURN) in Lagos said, the demons are what an average Nigerian confronts daily which are bringing down the nation and …

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Residents of Ota, Ogun State, under the aegis of Ado-Odo/Ota Citizens Engagement Platform have notified the state Governor, Mr. Dapo Abiodun about their grievances over what they termed unlawful removal of some equipment from the General Hospital on the orders of the Commissioner For Health, Dr. Rotimi Coker. In a release made available to National Wire, the group said the …

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Lagosians woke up to a torrential rainfall early Wednesday after days of severe heat.

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Journalists For Christ (JFC) International Outreach has shortlisted 20 pitches from  journalists, creative writers, presenters/producers, content creators and allied professionals who pitched story ideas after it called for pitches on advancing the living conditions of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria. According to President of JFC,  Mr. Lekan Otufodunrin, the stories are expected to generate reactions and call attention of …

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Being African has been attributed as a risk factor in the occurrence of hypertension. Medical Director of God’s Goal Hospital, Lagos, Dr. Gabriel Omonaiye made the attribution after a free medical outreach carried out recently in his hospital premises at Ojo, Lagos. According to Omonaiye after his team attended to about a hundred participants who were given health education before …

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Renowned environmentalist and member of the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, Rev. (Dr.) Nnimmo Bassey has been honoured in Lagos. The honour came on the platform of a non-governmental organisation; the Centre for Children’s Health Education Orientation and Protection (CEE-HOPE),  who yesterday named a hall in its facility after Bassey. Founder of CEE-HOPE, Betty Abah at the event …

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The children of a former Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) in Ondo State and first legal practitioner in the Ilutitun-Osooro area of the state, late Chief Augustus Akenroye, have launched a foundation in memory of their late father. The children, who launched the foundation as part of the activities to mark his funeral ceremony recently, visited the Local Authority Primary …

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Head of Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) and member, Kogi State Advisory Intervention Committee on Culture and Tourism, Hon. Quadri-adu Shakir Kehinde, has called on Nigerians irrespective of their religious background to pray for the well-being of the country. Kehinde told journalists recently that the situation in Nigeria now needs more prayer and he is therefore seizing the opportunity …

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The International Press Centre (IPC) Lagos-Nigeria is concerned about the recent attacks on two Abuja based journalists of Punch Newspapers; Amarachi Orjiude and Solomon Odeniyi. Reports from the Punch Newspapers specified that Orjiude was picked up by kidnappers in Chika, Lugbe, around 12pm on Sunday while Odeniyi was robbed around 2am on Saturday in his Lugbe residence of Abuja. Orjiude …

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Our continent is the most vulnerable to climate change, warming faster than the global average temperature, and the least able to afford the cost of implementing policies and practices that collectively make up what is called “adaptation” to climate change. Without immediately embracing a revolutionary approach, we will cause our own demise. We must agree it is African biodiversity, habitats, …

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