President Goodluck Jonathan has given a directive to the Federal Ministry of Health to convert the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, in Abakaliki to a Federal Teaching Hospital as a way of stimulating the growth of medicine and provision of a standard research centre for students in the state.

The Rivers State Government has said that the state will this year, witness rains that are three times higher than that of last year and would elicit unprecedented flooding of certain parts of the state.

A 32-year-old surveyor living at FHA lugbe Abuja, Taye Hassan was, yesterday, arraigned before an Abuja magistrate court for beating up his landlord, following a minor disagreement between them.

Tragedy struck in Lagos, early morning Wednesday when one of the Police Cadets, who recently passed out from Ikeja Police College, lost his life in a ghastly motor accident.

The stakeholders in the Nigerian maritime industry, their agents, transport haulage operators and other port users have been urged to maintain the peace at sea ports, airports, and land border stations as they go about their legitimate businesses of import processes and clearance.

Some concerned indigenes of the riverine community of Igbomotoru in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, have expressed concern over the increasing rate of illegal local refinery activities in the area.

THE Dr Samuel Ogbemudia led Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, has bemoaned what it described as alleged failure of some members of the party in the state to obey court orders, hinting that it would not hesitate to fill the relevant forms that would land those concerned party members in jail

THE Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu, yesterday, ordered the setting up of a new Election Petition Tribunal to hear petitions arising from the February 2010 gubernatorial elections in Anambra State

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, yesterday, apprehended two suspected drug traffickers over unlawful exportation of 3.250 kilogrammes of cocaine to Europe at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja.