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FG plans national database to monitor oil spills

By Folarin Kehinde, Abuja The Federal Government has unveiled plans to establish a national oil spill database for real-time monitoring and strengthen inter-agency surveillance mechanisms as part of efforts to overhaul Nigeria’s oil spill response framework. Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume, disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja while inaugurating the Joint […]

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Rev. Jesse Jackson was a great servant-leader — Tinubu

President Bola Tinubu has joined the world and the people of the United States to mourn the passing of civil rights icon and Baptist preacher, Rev. Jesse Jackson. This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday. Jackson died on Tuesday at the age of 84. Tinubu described Jackson as a servant-leader who […]

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Attack on Jonathan: Ijaw leader blasts Henry Okah as ‘deranged, manipulative jailbird’

Prominent Ijaw leader and former Chairman of Ogbia Local Government Area, Chief Mizodome Williams Ibu, has strongly responded to recent comments attributed to Henry Okah regarding former President Goodluck Jonathan.

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Ebonyi raises alarm over neglected tropical diseases in rural communities

The Ebonyi State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Moses Ekuma, has decried the continued neglect of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) such as lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis), onchocerciasis (river blindness), schistosomiasis, and soil-transmitted helminths in rural communities, warning that the conditions remain major barriers to education, productivity, and social inclusion.

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No equivalence between Kanu, Igboho – Presidency

The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Public Communication and Orientation, Sunday Dare, has firmly rejected suggestions in some quarters that there is no distinction between the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, and the Yoruba nation campaigner, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho.

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