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  The Federal Government has confirmed a report, which ranks Nigeria first on the list of countries with high record of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS in the world. The FG noted that local and international indications confirmed that Nigeria produces 30 percent of children born with HIV/AIDS globally. Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole , told newsmen at the launch of a roadmap on implementation of the National Treatment and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV/AIDS in Abuja on Tuesday, that the situation was worrisome and requires collective action of all stakeholders, with the support of global partners to correct the statistics. The minister also confirmed that Nigeria has 3.1 million people living with the virus, out of which 1.1 million people have been under proper and timely treatment from government. He said he was impressed with the commitment of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) to the caus...

  Members of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Rivers State have dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Federal Government and the Attorney General of the Federation to court over the continuous holding of elections on Saturdays. The applicants in the matter, Chief Emeka Anyabelem, Elder Asonye Onwudebe, Felix Minikwu and Chinedu Omesurum , said conducting elections on Saturday amounts to the violation of their rights to worship and disenfranchisement of other members of their church. In the suit, PHC/2836/2018, the applicants prayed the court to declare that holding elections on Saturday, the worship day for the denomination, is a violation of the Seventh Day Adventist Church members rights. The suit read in part: “A declaration that the applicants’ known day of worship being Saturday, they are entitled to their freedom of religion and worship on Saturdays unhindered or by any means, whatsoever, under the Constitution of t...

Ghanaian actress, Yvonne Nelson,  and her babydaddy, photographer Jamie Roberts celebrated their daughter, Ryn Roberts ’ first birthday party with family and friends on Monday. See more adorable photos below.

Udom Emmanuel Nigeria’s former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that Nigeria needs more leaders in the mould of Governor Udom Emmanuel, who, according to him, is focused and committed to the welfare of his people.  Speaking to Government House correspondents during a visit to the State Governor, Obasanjo said that he was able to make independent enquiries before his arrival to confirm the record achievements of Mr. Emmanuel. Olusegun Obasanjo said; “I listened to people, I made enquiries before I came here and then of course, I came here and I saw things on the ground and I’ve encouraged the Governor to do more” Speaking on the need for Akwa Ibom people to remain in support of Mr. Emmanuel, Chief Obasanjo said, “I also think you don’t change a good thing you cherish, you hold it, you use it. I think one thing that we must understand in this country is leaders don’t flock and when we see a good leader, let us get the best out of it.” He descr...

•NNPC: Nigeria earns $47.257bn from oil in 13 months •Forecloses upward review of price of petrol President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in the Presidential Villa held a closed-door meeting with four of the six South-south governors. The meeting which held between 3 and 4p.m., was attended by Governors Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa), Udom Emmanuel (Akwa Ibom) and Ifeanyi Okowa (Delta). After the meeting, Dickson who spoke on behalf of the governors, failed to disclose the purpose of the meeting. He also failed to give insight into discussions in the meeting. Instead, the governor said they only came to see the president over what he described as pertinent issues about Nigeria and the Niger Delta. He was, however, swift to add that the meeting had nothing to do with party matters. He said: “My colleagues and I came to have a meeting with the president on issues that are pertinent to Nigeria and South-south s...

•Considers compensation for 2011 post-election crisis victims President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in Kaduna vowed to deal decisively with the perpetrators of recent violence in Kaduna that claimed over 60 lives. The president also said the federal government would consider payment of compensation to the victims of the 2011 post-election violence, having been told by the state Governor, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, that the issue was part of the cause of the recent violence. Speaking during a meeting with traditional and religious leaders at the Indoor Sports Hall of the Murtala Square, Kaduna, over the violence that rocked the state last week, the president said this time around, those responsible for the killings would not get away with the crime. He said, “The federal government will take strongest measures possible to punish perpetrators of these crimes. “If, in the past they got away scot free, we shall now hold everyone t...

• Police arrest 400 A police vehicle was burned while scores of people were injured yesterday in Wuse 2, Abuja, during the violent protest by members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) otherwise known as Shiites. The police in a statement last night said 400 persons had been arrested in connection with the protests that started at the weekend. The adherents of the Shiite sect have since Saturday engaged security operatives in bloody confrontations in protest against the continued detention of their spiritual leader, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, by the Department of State Services (DSS) without regard to the several court orders asking for his release. They have been gathered from all over the country for the past three days for the observance of the annual Arbaeen religious trek. The crisis has resulted in a heavy toll since it started, with about 20 followers of the sect reportedly fatally shot in clashes with sold...

•Workers hold strike rehearsal rally •Prepare to down tools on Tuesday The dispute over workers’ quest for an upward review of minimum wage in the country became protracted yesterday as the nation’s 36 governors emerged from their meeting in Abuja and said they had agreed to N22,500 as the lowest pay cheque for workers. But labour responded swiftly last night that the governors’ offer, N7,500 short of its demand for N30,000, was an exercise in futility, warning that the strike scheduled for Tuesday next week would proceed as planned. “The N30,000 figure is not adjustable,” Mr. Denja Yakubu, Assistant Secretary (Information), at the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) Headquarters, Abuja told EReporter last night, that none of the tripartite stakeholders, including government, organised labour and organised private sector, could vary the figure he said had been agreed upon. “We agreed to the N30,000 figure as the minimum wage ...

Nigerian governors have announced that states can only afford to raise the national minimum wage from N18, 000 to N22,500 as against the N30,000 being demanded by organised labour. The governors said this after an emergency meeting of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum in Abuja late on Tuesday. This was even as the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress held nationwide peaceful protests to sensitise Nigerians to the planned national strike scheduled to begin on November 6. The two unions are demanding N30,000 as the national minimum wage. The Federal Government had earlier offered to pay N24, 000 as minimum wage. Labour had declared that it would order workers to go on strike from November 6, 2018, if government refused to take a decisive action on its demand. However, the threat of the workers was believed to have forced the governors to convene an emergency meeting. Tuesday’s meeting of the NGF was attended by the Ministers of Labour and Productiv...

As part of efforts aimed at wooing the South-West, the Peoples Democratic Party has decided to surrender the position of Speaker of House of Representatives to the region if it wins the 2019 presidential election, EReporter learnt on Tuesday night. The party had earlier ceded the position of Secretary to the Government of the Federation to the same region. These were part of a political strategy being planned by the party to enable voters from the region to vote for its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and his running mate, Mr Peter Obi. The current Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), who is also running with President Muhammadu Buhari on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, hails from Ogun State, in South-West. Investigations by our correspondent showed that the leadership of the PDP and Atiku had disclosed this at their meeting in Dubai, where the presidential candidate is currently holidaying. Authoritative sources close to the party and its pr...

A young man, identified as Kingsley, has lost his life after a Lexus SUV lost control and fell into a river behind  EFAB Estate, Lokogoma District, Abuja, on Monday. Two other occupants of the vehicle survived the crash which occurred in the morning after the SUV fell off a narrow bridge and landed on its back in the flooded river. Northern City News learnt that residents rushed to the scene and rescued the occupants, but Kingsley, who was the first to be rescued, inexplicably returned to the water and was swept away. His body was found later in the afternoon by divers. An eyewitness, who identified himself as Patrick, said he was in his room when he heard a loud noise from the scene, adding that some residents said they saw the driver on top speed before the crash. He said, “I was hearing a shout from my room; so, I came out and saw people trying to bring the driver out of the vehicle “We had to smash the windscreen to bring him out of the car ...

Traditional rulers in Ekiti State have appealed to the State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, to revisit their welfare packages that have allegedly been bastardised in the last four years. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Kayode Fayemi, Mr Yinka Oyebode, said the traditional rulers narrated their ordeals at a meeting with the governor in his office on Tuesday. The traditional rulers reportedly lamented that their salaries were not paid regularly and their allowances slashed to 40 per cent leading to situations where some of them got sitting allowances as low as N2,000 or N400. The statement said, “The Obas, led by their Chairman, Oba Oluwole Ademolaju, the Oloye of Oye- Ekiti, said it was unfortunate that custodians of the culture and tradition of the people could be treated in such a shabby and despicable manner where peanuts approved for them could not be paid while some people were living grandiose lifestyle. “They called on the governor t...

President Muhammadu has said he is closely monitoring the Nigeria Police Force as violence rises in the country. He also asked the force to remain vigilant in securing communities and diligent in prosecuting criminal offences. “The Nigerian Police are in the frontline of securing communities. For the judiciary, unless the investigations are credible and rapidly done, there is nothing they can do. “From now on, the Nigeria police, you better watch it, I am going to watch you closely,” the President said. Buhari, who gave the warning on Tuesday, also said he would not fold his arms and allow those responsible for the recent killings in parts of Kaduna State to go unpunished. Buhari made the remarks during a condolence visit to Kaduna State. According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, the President expressed sadness over the loss of lives and property in Kasuwan Magani and around Kaduna metropolis. He said, “If in ...

A parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God along the Uyo Village Road, has insured the lives of 500 of its members following a warning by the Akwa Ibom State Government that the area is prone to landslide. The government had after the collapse of the Reigner’s Bible Church, in which scores lost their lives, issued evacuation notice to all the owners of property along the Uyo Village Road on the grounds that the area was prone to disaster. It was learnt that the Akwa Ibom State Government in 2000 designated the area as forest reserve and declared all the structures erected in the place as illegal. Speaking during a media interaction in Uyo on Tuesday, the Commissioner for Lands and Housing, Mr Ime Ekpo, said the RCCG and other property owners had refused to move out of the disaster-prone area, despite the evacuation notice served on them. According to him, government had to order the RCCG to insure the lives of its members in case the church building c...

The presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, Donald Duke, says he earned a combined sum of N5, 618, 419 between 2015 and 2017. Duke stated this in his tax certificate with serial number 290664, which was attached to his Form CF001 and submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission. Within the same period, Duke also paid tax to the tune of N400,000. The former governor of Cross River State claimed to have made the money from business. Duke stated in his form that he had never been indicted for fraud by a judicial panel even as he said he had never been involved in certificate forgery. The former governor attached his school certificate from the West African Examination Council indicating that he passed all subjects in 1977. However, mathematics was not listed among the subjects he sat for. Duke graduated from Ahmadu Bello University with a Second Class (lower division) in law. Meanwhile, the United Nations Special Representative...

The Federal Government has insisted that Nigerian troops have succeeded in decimating the capacity of the Boko Haram terrorist group to carry out spectacular attacks. This, the Federal Government said, was without prejudice to the fact that the group carried out occasional attacks on soft targets in the North-East. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said this at a media briefing in Abuja, on Tuesday. He also described news on social media that the welfare of troops in the frontline was so poor that soldiers were begging for food as “fake news.” Mohammed urged Nigerians to appreciate and understand the nature of the Boko Haram insurgency, which grew from a local terrorist group into an international group attracting funding and support from similar groups across the globe. He noted that the group now received funding and support from foreign terrorist groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Al-Qaeda and similar other gr...

Power generation in the country plunged to 2,390.20 megawatts on Monday as the number of idle power plants rose from seven to 15, according to the latest data from the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing. Total electricity generation has been hovering below 4,000MW in recent months and stood at 3,741.30MW as of 6am on Sunday. The nation generates most of its electricity from gas-fired power plants, while output from hydropower plants makes up about 30 per cent of the total. But the three hydropower plants accounted for more than 50 per cent of the electricity generated as of 6am on Monday, with Kainji, Jebba and Shiroro producing 366MW, 354MW and 494MW, respectively. Egbin, the biggest power station in the country, saw its output drop to 176MW on Monday from 306MW on Saturday. The idle plants are Sapele, Afam IV & V, Geregu, Omotosho, Geregu NIPP, Alaoji, Omotosho NIPP, Odukpani NIPP, Ihovbor NIPP, Gbarain NIPP, Okpai, Afam VI, AES, ASCO and ...

A Professor of Anatomy, Oladapo Ashiru, has warned against eating after 9 pm, stressing that such a habit is not beneficial to the human body and health. In an interview with our correspondent, Ashiru noted that when people eat after 9 pm the food would not be able to digest before sleeping which is dangerous for the body. “The only condition when you could eat after 9pm is if you can exercise patience to ensure the food digest. But, unfortunately, many people who eat after 9 pm will not wait for the food to digest, they go to bed immediately and this lead to many health problems,” Ashiru stated. Also, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that eating late at night raises glucose and insulin levels in the blood, both of which cause type 2 diabetes. According to newtelegraph.co.uk, the researchers found evidence that poor timing of meals can also affect cholesterol levels, which can increase the risk of hea...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday congratulated Mr Jair Bolsonaro on his victory in Brazil’s presidential election run-off on Sunday. In a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President also felicitated with the people of Brazil for successfully going through the two rounds of the election and making their choice, thereby enhancing the democratic credentials of their country. The statement read, “Noting that Nigeria shares historical and cultural ties with Brazil, President Buhari says his administration looks forward to deepening such relations as well as expanding current political, trade and military ties with the South American powerhouse. “As President-elect,  Bolsonaro takes office in January 2019, the Nigerian leader wishes him a successful tenure in confronting his country’s current socio-economic challenges.” In a similar vein, President Buhari on Tuesday congratulated a Senior Advocate of Nig...