Women who breast-feed their babies for longer periods face a lower risk of becoming infected with cancer. This was disclosed in Lagos by the National Coordinator of the National Cancer Prevention Programme, NCPP, Dr. Kin Egwuonwu, during a breast cancer awareness walk tagged, Walk for Life.

A seven year-old girl (names withheld) was killed, while over 3,000 others were displaced by the flood that submerged all five communities in Badagry Local Government Area of Lagos State.

Governor Babtunde Fashola of Lagos State, weekend, dropped a bombshell on the public perception of him being a stooge of his former boss, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, saying he (Tinubu) is not a godfather to him but a political mentor.

Following Sunday’s mishap in which 15 passengers aboard Aero flight AJ320 were injured when the airline made an emergency landing at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos, the management, yesterday, attributed the development to humidity and warm air mixing which metamorphosed into a cloud of smoke.

FORMER Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, of re-inventing unconstitutional tactics earlier outlawed by the courts in its proposals to stop certain politically-exposed persons from contesting the 2011 elections.

PLANS by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for the smooth conduct of the 2011 elections were, yesterday, hit by fresh pressures from the Bureau of Public Procurement, BPP, to slash prices of the Direct Data Capture Machines for the voters’ registration exercise.

CHIEF Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Dan Abutu, yesterday, transferred the trial of the former Chief Executive Officer of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Dr. Erastus Akingbola, to Justice Charles Archibong.

ADMINISTRATIVE and academic activities in federal and state-owned universities across the country may be paralysed by members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, any moment from now.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC, has invited former Governor of Bauchi Adamu Muazu to appear before its operatives to answer questions on fresh alleged corruption charges.

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has prune down members of his cabinet from 40 to 15, even as members of the ruling Action Congress of Nigera, ACN, have intensified lobby to be commissioners and special advisers.

The Federal Government yesterday blamed former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration for the delay in installation of the airfield lighting on the domestic runway of the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos.

AS the 80-year-old mother of the Culture and Tourism Commissioner, Madam Pege Esther Wewe and her 12-year-old grand daughter, Rachael Lawrence, regained their freedom nine days after they were kidnapped, the opposition party in the state has expressed concern over perceived spate of kidnapping in the state in the last one year.