The senator representing Oyo Central Senatorial District, Senator Hamzat Ayoade Adeseun, has urged workers in Oyo State to call of the strike action they embarked upon over disagreement with the state government on minimum wage.
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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has congratulated Governor Saidu Dakingari of Kebbi State on his re-election at last Saturday’s re-run election.
The Nigeria Bar Association, Benin branch in Edo State, has faulted the Peoples Democratic Party on the state of security of lives and property in the state.
A 25-man delegation of FC Kallon of Sierra Leone will arrive Nigeria on Wednesday to take on Warri Wolves Football Club of Nigeria in the return leg of the CAF Confederation Cup game, scheduled to be played on Friday at the Warri City Stadium.
Bolton Wanderers’ instructors, Mick Wild and Christian Mahon, have arrived the country for a three-day youth coaches development workshop.
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The founder and National Chairman of the United Peoples Grand Alliance, Chief Chekwas Okorie, has told the National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Chief Victor Umeh, that his petition to the Independent National Electoral Commission over the move to register UPGA was both absurd and stupid.
The Oyo State Government has reduced the structures to be demolished from 2,105 to 56, even as it ruled out the possibility of paying any compensation to owners of the affected structures.
The President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has commiserated with the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, over the death of his father, His Royal Highness, Igwe Mathias Ekweremadu.
The Action Congress of Nigeria, Oyo State chapter, has called on the Nigerian Press Council to impose stiff sanctions on the Nigerian Compass newspaper for its incessant one-sided stories against the Governor Abiola Ajimobi administration in Oyo State.
As the National Immunisation Plus Days comes to an end on Tuesday in Lagos, wife of the state Governor, Mrs. Abimbola Fashola, has appealed to parents and caregivers to remain committed in ensuring that the state continues to remain polio free.
A Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna, Kaduna State has sentenced an undergraduate of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Olasaidi Dare, to five years imprisonment over an attempt to obtain money under false pretences in a cyber café owned by a former member of the National Assembly, Senator Olabode Ola, in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State.
The President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has commenced a one week working leave.
Three of the wives and two daughters of the late leader of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, have been jailed in Pakistan for entering the country illegally.The sentence was handed down on Monday.
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Provocative new research might help explain why black women are so much more likely than whites to develop and die from cervical cancer: They seem to have more trouble clearing HPV, the virus that causes the disease. Doctors have long thought that less access to screening and follow-up health care were the reasons black women are 40 per cent more likely to develop cervical cancer and twice as likely to die from it. The new study involving young college women suggests there might be a biological explanation for the racial disparity, too. If further study confirms this novel finding, it…
Australians who spent a lot of time sitting at a desk or in front of a television were more likely to die of any cause during a three-year period than those who were only sedentary a few hours a day, in a new study.Researchers found that the link between too much time sitting and shortened lives stuck when they accounted for how much moderate or vigorous exercise people got as well as their weight and other measures of health.
Reports emanating from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, has it that two suspected members of dreaded sect, Boko Haram, were shot dead on Sunday.
Gunmen on Sunday shot dead the Caretaker Committee Chairman of Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State, Wanasgu Kachuwa.
A man suspected to be bearing an explosive device has died in Kaduna, Kaduna State, when the explosive detonated.