The Chief Medical Director, Federal Neuro Psychiatry Hospital, Kaduna, Prof. Abdulkareem Jika- Yusuf has attributed the increase in mental illness to abuse of drug among other factors. Jika- Yusuf, who disclosed this in an interview with newsmen on Monday in…
A Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Monday remanded a 21-year-old student, Chidinma Ojukwu and one other for 30 days at a correctional centre for alleged murder. Ojukwu and Adedapo Quadri, 40, are facing trial for allegedly killing the…
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has reopened its office in Calabar after it was destroyed by hoodlums who hijacked the #EndSars protest on Oct. 24, 2020. A correspondent had earlier reported that the hoodlums destroyed the office buildings, vandalised…
The Kaduna State Government says that all primary and secondary schools will remain close until security situation improves across the state. The Commissioner for Education, Dr Shehu Muhammad, stated this on Monday in Kaduna at a joint press conference with…
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, says he will not resign his position. Secondus said this in a statement issued by his Media Adviser, Mr Ike Abonyi, in Abuja on Monday. The national chairman…
Lionel Messi is expected to arrive in Paris on Monday, lured by the limitless funds of PSG, having said a tearful farewell to Barcelona after 21 years. The 34-year-old, seen by the French giants’ Qatari owners as the vital missing…
The Federal Government has postponed the second phase of the national vaccination programme. The second phase was expected to kickstart on Tuesday after the US donated over four million doses of the Moderna vaccine. But in a statement on Sunday,…
Nigeria has recorded 471 fresh cases of the novel coronavirus as resident doctors across the country continue to strike over unpaid benefits. The new cases were reported on Sunday from 13 states, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control…
A caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party at the House of Representatives has asked their party’s National Chairman, Uche Secondus, to “honourably” resign from his position. At the PDP National Secretariat on Monday, some party members also held placards calling…
A Mathematics scholar, Dr Ohi Uwaheren, has described the subject at the simplest of all subjects in the school curriculum. Uhaweren, who lectures at the University of Ilorin, said that most pupils and students lacked interests in Mathematics due to…
