A law, establishing the Management of Primary Healthcare Board is now in place in Rivers State. Governor Chibuike Amaechi signed the law into existence, yesterday, in Port Harcourt.

With a projected 12.4 million inhabitants in 2015, Lagos is set to become Africa’s most populous city, ahead of Cairo’s 11 million inhabitants. The projection was contained in a report released on Wednesday by the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT).

THE Assemblies of God Church Nigeria now has a new leadership in the person of Reverend Paul Emeka as the new General Superintendent. He was elected yesterday at the end of a two-day conference of the Church in Ebonyi State capital, Abakaliki.

AN end to the looming industrial crises across Nigeria, appears in sight as the National Council of State, NCS, the highest advisory council in the country, Thursday approved the proposed N18,000 National Minimum Wage as benchmark for all workers in the country.

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Thursday invaded the office of Halliburton on Victoria Island, Lagos, arrested 10 officials and two Managing Directors over an alleged $180 million Halliburton scam.

Former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Chairman, Malam Nuhu Ribadu has declared his readiness to face any opposition, including President Goodluck Jonathan, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Maj.Gen Muhammadu Buhari among others in the 2011 polls.

Senator Uche Chukwumerije and a traditional ruler, Eze Gaius Ihejiamaizu, Thursday, asked an Abuja Federal High Court, to discharge them as sureties to former Abia governor, Orji Uzor Kalu.

NATIONAL Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, yesterday, raided some major markets in Benin, the state capital and made a number of seizures and arrests.

An elderly committee member of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Alhaji Bashir Abba Sheriff, has observed that the choice of former vice president Atiku Abubakar as the choice of the Northern Political Leaders Forum, NPLF, gives a political advantage to the CPC.

Nigerian-born County Commissioner of Tallahassee, North Florida, United States of America, USA, Mr. Akin Akinyemi, has commended the structural and aesthetic transformation of Lagos State by the Mr. Babatunde Fashola-led administration.