April 20, 2019

Psychiatrist recommends early treatment of mental ailment

April 20, 2019 10:21 pm

Dr Shehu Sale, a Consultant Psychiatrist, has advised Nigerians to report persons with mental ailment early at recognised health facilities.

Sale, who is also the Medical Director of Federal Neuro Psychiatric Hospital (FNPH), Kware, Sokoto State, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Sokoto.

The psychiatrist said that early report and diagnosis of mental ailments would help to curtail the number of rising cases in the country.

He pointed out that mental cases were on the increase in the country because they were hardly reported at the right hospitals and at …

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Nigeria’s problems can be solved with love – Gov. Obiano

April 20, 2019 10:10 pm

As Christians all over the world mark the feast of Easter, the Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano has urged them to reach out and touch their neighbours with love, saying that Nigeria’s most complex problems could be solved with love.

In a special Easter Message delivered in Awka, the state capital, by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr James Eze, Governor Obiano observed that there is no greater manifestation of unconditional love than the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ for the salvation of mankind which the feast of Easter represents.

Nigerian Senate to spend ₦5.5b on official cars for members

Senate passes Proceeds of Crime bill

April 20, 2019 9:59 pm

The Senate last Wednesday passed the Proceeds of Crime bill which will now pave way for the country to become full member of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

The bill is one of two bills which are key requirements for the membership of the global body where only South Africa represents the African Continent presently.

EFCC begins probe of ₦8.7 billion fraud in JAMB

April 20, 2019 9:38 pm

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has launched into a probe of the cash inflow and outflow of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) between 2010 and 2016.

The anti-graft agency wants to get to the root of an alleged N8.7billion fraud in the board.

Fifteen suspects have already been shortlisted for trial.

Among them are some zonal heads and state coordinators. One of the suspects facing trial is a female accountant, Philomena Chise, whose sensational claim that a snake swallowed N36million raked in from the sales of e-facility cards rocked the nation.

Chise later told EFCC operatives …

Aisha Buhari to establish a university named after husband

April 20, 2019 9:21 pm

Mrs Aisha Buhari, wife of the President, yesterday announced her plan to establish a private university to be known as Muhammadu Buhari University.

Mrs. Buhari, speaking at a town hall meeting in Yola organized by her in collaboration with some natives of Adamawa State said the planned institution would be established in collaboration with partners from Sudan and Qatar.

But she did not reveal when or where it would be sited.

Aisha who lamented the challenges facing education and various sectors in the state, called for active support of the state indigenes in complementing government efforts.

She called for the

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The two untouchable rogues in Nigeria

April 20, 2019 1:37 pm

By MarkAnthony Nze

These two men here, Jubril Al-Sudani from Sudan, Late President Muhammadu Buhari’s impostor and Yemi Osinbajo, a so-called pastor, whose stock-in-trade has become telling lies with every fibre of his soul, and one wonders if he still remembers humanity as an ordained minister of the gospel, are the two most corrupt persons in Nigeria presently yet they have the temerity to be talking about their ‘integrity’ to their gullible and daft followers.

Why Biafra fell – Prof. Uzodinma Nwala

April 20, 2019 1:24 pm

“We thought that the defeat of Biafra was God telling us no, you don’t need Biafra; you need Nigeria. But that was a wrong meaning to what happened. We lost the war, not because God wanted us to go back to Nigeria.

We lost the war for obvious reasons, which I found when I went to New York in 1973 for my post-graduate work. I spent days and time at the United Nations and I was searching for an answer to the question, why Biafra fell. At the end of those days of working in the United Nations and other …

NAFDAC raises alarm over prevalence of drug addicts

April 20, 2019 12:02 pm

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gun powder due to what it described as the high rate and prevalence of drug addicts across the country.The agency said it was shocking that Nigeria was leading even beyond the international coverage of drug abuse globally.The Director, Public Affairs, NAFDAC, Dr Abubakar Jimoh, said this on Saturday while speaking with newsmen in Ilorin.

Jimoh said the agency has an average conservative estimate of about 15 million people who are on drugs and 3 million of them could be conveniently called

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I’m proud of my father, Anini’s son declares in a video

April 20, 2019 11:44 am

Breaks silence after three decades

Osayi, second son of Lawrence Anini, the notorious armed robber who was executed alongside his gang members in 1987, has spoken out after three decades of silence.