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President Jonathan Launched the new E-National identity card in Abuja today .The card is a multi-purpose card for identification, electronic signatures, biometric on-card verification, and other applications.

Earlier this week, BN brought you the news that Deputy Governor of Enugu, Sunday Onyebuchi was impeached by the Enugu State House of Assembly. Onyebuchi was accused of operating a commercial poultry at his official residence and of flouting the orders of the State Governor Sullivan Chime, but many have ...

Men who were treated and discharged of Ebola Virus have been advised not to have sex for atleast 7 weeks. Dr Bridget Okoeguale, Director, Department of Public Health, gave the advice during an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).She said �There are many literatures that say that after men ...

A highly placed official of the Rivers state Government has confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES that a suspected case of the Ebola Virus Disease has been detected in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital. The official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to discuss the development ...

The Federal Government has postponed the resumption of primary and secondary schools across the country to Monday October 13th, it has been announced. Primary and Secondary schools were supposed to resume on September 22nd but about two weeks ago, FG postponed it indefinitely to prevent an outbreak of the Ebola ...

Pastor E.A Adeboye went on his Facebook page to share a picture of himself holding a thank you note after hitting #2million Facebook followers… He wrote; “I would like to thank you all for 2 million followers on Facebook. May The Lord bless you and speedily answer all your prayers ...

Deputy Governor of Enugu state, Sunday Onyebuchi, has been impeached by members of the Enugu state Assembly. The Deputy Governor, who was served his impeachment notice on July 22nd, was voted out of office this morning. Details of his impeachment session is still sketchy but it is believed to have ...

Controversial Pastor Lesego Daniel of the Rabboni Centre Ministries, South Africa who made his congregations eat grass so they can be closer to God is back in the news and this time he is stepping on them to make evil spirits leave them. It is not clear as to why ...

Viewers Discretion Adviced The Dutsen Alhaji Police Division of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, Abuja, has arrested a woman, Mrs. Roseline Uzoamaka, after she brutalised her 14-year-old relative, identified simply as Sarah, because she was bed-wetting.Uzoamaka allegedly forced the teenager to sit on a burning electric cooker until the ...

The Punch newspaper has threatened to sue Vanguard newspaper, the SUN and Thisday over a fake advertorial published on different days by the newspapers. Punch has given the newspapers 5 days to tender a public apology and publish it prominently in their respective newspapers or face litigation. Here’s the genesis ...

City People Magazine has unveiled Gentle and easy going Bankole Cardoso,the co-founder and CEO of Easy Taxi. He studied at Rugby School, UK and has a degree in Business Management and Accounting from the Boston College. Bankole is also a certified Public Accountant,licensed in New York. Early 2014 he was ...

There were reports that President Goodluck Jonathan wasn’t feeling too well and thus flew to Germany on friday 22nd, August for a medical check-up. The Presidential media spokesperson has debunked such stories as baseless and untrue and explained that it was false reporting peddled by a newspaper outfit owned by ...

If words of insiders at the Ministry of health are anything to go by, its been reported that Dr Stella Ameyo’s sister whose tests was conducted last week has tested positive to the Ebola virus. Dr Ameyo who died from the Ebola virus days ago came in contact with her ...

The fight against the Ebola virus has gotten even more real as all stakeholders have decided to put all hands on death to drive out this epidemic from Nigeria. The Nigeria Custom service has taken precautionary actions as they seized a trailer containing smoked meat suspected to be that of ...

Shade Okoya, the wife of billionaire business man, Chief Rasaq Okoya, was conferred with a�Doctor of Science, D. Sc (Honorary Causa) in Business Management and Corporate Leadership honorary degree�by the Senate of the European American University at the premises of the University of Lagos, Akoka in Lagos state on Saturday ...

The Boko Haram insurgency is far be�yond the problem of the North East people as families in other parts of the country are now equally battling the bitter taste of the sect’s rampaging ac�tivities. One of such is Alhaji Mustapha Oy�eyinka who is now cursing the day he decid�ed to ...

Nigerian Doctors have suspended their nationwide strike which they kicked off on the 1st of July 2014. Although details of the strike is still very sketchy, they made the announcement via their official twitter page this morning and a press statement is expected to follow later today, Sunday 4, August, ...

The fiancé of a nurse who died of Ebola has been discharged from the Ebola treatment center in Lagos this evening after his third test came out negative. Dennis, who was late Justina Obi Ejelonu’s fiancé had been quarantined and later admitted into treatment after two tests confirmed that he ...

President Jonathan, who is currently in Germany, is pictured above speaking on the phone with Nigeria’s�U20 Falconets who are participating in the 2014 FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup in Montreal, Canada. The footballers will be playing against their German counterparts today August 24th�in the finals of the football tournament. In ...

Britain has recorded it’s first case of Ebola after a British national living in Sierra Leone tested positive for the Ebola virus .Professor John Watson, deputy chief medical officer, said: ‘The overall risk to the public in the UK continues to be very low.’Medical experts are currently assessing the situation ...