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Resident doctors in government hospitals embarked on a nationwide strike yesterday. A circular issued by the Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, effecting their sack, reads: “It has come to the notice of the management of the ministry that some resident ...

The partnership that will see Lagos emerge as the first Smart City in Africa, was signed yesterday in Dubai. A Smart City is a growing concept that draws from the success of Dubai’s innovative knowledge-based industry clusters to empower business ...

Buhari appoints Ibrahim Kpotun Idris as new Inpector General of Police as Arase retires today.

Retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Niki Tobi, has died. Tobi passed on in the early hours of Friday at the National Hospital, Abuja. His corpse was later moved to the morgue of Garki General Hospital. The retired judge ...

A commercial Toyota Sienna bus lost balance, somersaulting into the bush on Tuesday 7th June killing 1 woman and leaving 4 injured close to Ihiala LGA headquarters along Onitsha-Owerri Road in Ihiala, Anambra State. Eyewitnesses ran towards the accident scene ...

Yesterday, James Bala Ngilari was taken to the Federal Teaching Hospital, Gombe, in an ambulance, after he complained of ill health, DailyTrust reports. He was detain at the Gombe zonal office of the commission on Thursday in connection with the ...

According Newsroom, Blessing Adenike Adeoye, 19, was taken to traditional midwives known in Yoruba as “elewe omo” probably because her Igando, Lagos-based parents couldn’t afford the cost of taking her to a proper hospital. She was the first of her ...

Chinese man arrested for attempting to assassinate his Nigerian business associate. Sun Hun was arrested in Lagos Island yesterday, after police operatives nabbed one Chika Eze, whom he paid N1.4m to hire killers. Chika got two men whom he paid ...

Around 6:45am today, 2 suicide bombers were shot dead by the Civilian JTF in Maiduguri, Borno state. The male suicide bombers who strapped IEDs on the bodies stormed Kusari, near CBN Staff Quarters and heading to a mosque in the ...

4 months after, leader of the gang that abducted the 3 Lagos school girls, arrested while making love.   The Lagos Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, yesterday, paraded Felix Sylva aka Tradition, the leader of the gang of kidnappers that ...