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…Promises rescue of corps member abducted by Boko Haram Director General National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig-Gen Shuaibu Ibrahim By Luminous Jannamike – Abuja The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) DG, Brig-Gen Shuaibu Ibrahim visited the family of a corps member, Abraham Amuta Abah, who was abducted by Boko Haram insurgents earlier this year in…
Promises rescue of corps member abducted by Boko Haram Luminous Jannamike – Abuja National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has assured Nuradeen Tahir, a corps member who lost his arm in a road accident after leaving orientation camp in Taraba State, that he would be provided prosthetic limbs to enable him to lead a normal…
Gove Emeka Ihedioha of Imo State By Chidi Nkwopara, Owerri Underfunding, inadequate personnel, lack of essential modern medical equipment and other infrastructural needs, have been identified as the major handicaps bedevilling Imo State Government-owned hospitals. The Chairman of Imo State Hospital Management Board, Dr. Douglas Acholonu, made this known after inspecting some of the medical…
Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho believes his side will finish in the top four of the Premier League this season. Spurs’ chances of a fourth successive finish in the Champions League qualification places looked a lost cause when the Portuguese took charge last month with the club 12 points behind Chelsea. That gap has been cut…
Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State Gov. Dapo Abiodun of Ogun on Thursday sent a list of 18 commissioner nominees to the state House of Assembly for confirmation. The Speaker, Mr. Olakunle Oluomo, read Abiodun’s letter containing the list during plenary in Abeokuta. Oluomo said that the governor had written to seek the confirmation of…
Michael Cohen is pleading with a Manhattan federal court judge to reduce his three-year sentence to just a year and a day, citing his ongoing cooperation with probes into President Trump and even quoting Shakespeare. In a Wednesday court filing, Cohen asks for the more lenient sentence because he’s spent “approximately 170 hours providing testimony…
The Ondo State Contributory Health Commission (ODCHC), on Thursday, said no fewer than 400,000 residents of the state would be registered in the first phase of its contributory health scheme. The commission’s General Manager, Dr Abiodun Oyeneyin, who made this disclosure at a press conference in Akure, said the commission would make sure that 10…
…as Ize-Iyamu writes Obaseki By Ozioruva Aliu There is anxiety in Edo state as the Inspector General of Police, Muhammed Adamu has granted permission to the All Progressives Congress Edo State to hold its mega rally to receive Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and over thirty thousand Peoples Democratic Party, PDP members into the state. Governor Godwin…
President Trump said in a closed-door White House meeting that French President Emmanuel Macron is “a pain in the ass” and disparaged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau following the release of a video that appeared to show the world leaders gossiping about him, a report said. The president was speaking to more than a dozen…
An agriculturist, Mrs. Bola Adeyemo, has called on more local farmers to embrace the cultivation of Cassava with Vitamin nutrients to address malnutrition and hunger. Adeyemo, also a food processor, made the call on Thursday in Lagos while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Vitamin A helps form and maintains healthy teeth, skeletal…