2014-12-16 Nigeria Health

Zambia Daily Mail   

Lugbe has highest HIV/AIDS prevalence in FCT—NACA   
Nigerian Tribune
Capacity Development Officer for Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P), Mrs Jummai Danuk, has said that Lugbe, a suburb of the FCT, has the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Abuja. She made the disclosure in Lugbe, at a ...

2014-12-16 Nigeria Science

NUC, Ministry of Science and Tech to collaborate on research   
The Guardian Nigeria
THE National Universities Commission (NUC) and the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology on Monday inaugurated a committee to work out the modalities for cooperation in research. Prof. Julius Okojie, NUC's Executive Secretary, said that ...

2014-12-16 Nigeria Sports

Over 600 Players at Golden Eaglets' Screening   
THISDAY Live
No fewer than 600 budding youngsters were screened yesterday at the NFF/FIFA Goal Project in Abuja as Golden Eaglets' preparation towards Niger 2015 CAN Under-17 Championship begins in earnest. Coach Emmanuel Amuneke said he was impressed ...

2014-12-16 Nigeria Entertainment

The Nation Newspaper   

Headies 2014: Patoranking, Davido win big   
The Nation Newspaper
Dance hall sensation, Patoranking, was in the spotlight early Monday morning, during the Headies Awards ceremony which began Saturday night, at Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos. The reggae star, who clinched three diadems at the show, also ...

2014-12-16 Nigeria Technology

Daily Sun   

NCC: Tending Nigeria's N6.4 trillion vault amidst Ebola   
Daily Sun
The deregulation of Nigeria's telecoms sector has had an enormous impact on the economic and social development of the country in the last 15 years. This is both unique and amazing because the attempt to deregulate or liberalise many other sectors have ...

2014-12-16 Nigeria Business

The Guardian Nigeria   

Electricity consumers protest poor power supply in Benin   
Nigerian Tribune
Electricity consumers, in their hundreds, trooped to the headquarters of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC), located at Akpapava in Benin, to protest poor power supply in their areas. The protesters, who were mainly youths, marched through ...

2014-12-16 Nigeria World

South China Morning Post (subscription)   

Extreme violence, growing hunger plague South Sudan   
South China Morning Post (subscription)
War in South Sudan is worsening with "extreme violence" and growing hunger, rights groups warned, one year since the start of conflict in which tens of thousands have died. Campaigners say South Sudan is locked into conflict, with the bloodshed that ...

2014-12-16 Nigeria Africa

Osun Defender   

FG, defeat Boko Haram before 2015 elections   
Nigerian Tribune
N IGERIA will never develop in an atmosphere of violence. What we are witnessing at the moment as a result of the ongoing Boko Haram violence is something that I never thought could happen in Nigeria. I used to see terrorism from afar. I felt Nigerians were ...

2014-12-16 Nigeria Nigeria

The Punch   

'Rigging can lead to bloodshed in 2015'   
The Punch
A former Secretary of the National Democratic Coalition, Senator Remi Okunrinboye, has warned that any attempt to manipulate next year's election could result in bloodshed. Okunriboye, who was the chairman at the annual Press Week of the Ondo State ...