The Police in Minna, Niger State on Saturday arrested four persons suspected to be kidnappers of Alhaji Adamu Umar, a Permanent Secretary in the Niger State civil service.

Cancer killed 7.4 million people in 2004 alone, with more than 70 per cent of its victims recorded in developing countries, Minister of Health, Professor Babatunde Osotimehin, said.

FOUR erstwhile governors of Ondo State weekend lauded Governor Olusegun Mimiko’s effort at repositioning the state to an enviable status and enable it takes its pride of place in the country.

Our Government and Organised Labour are once again for the umpteenth time in about five years embroiled in what may best be described as an unending petrol price control war, which was ignited over two decades ago with the drastic devaluation of the naira and increasing product prices. In his second term in office, former President Obasanjo floated the kite of deregulation to put an end to the endless attrition.

AMIDST complaints of large scale electoral malpractices and violence, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the re-run elections into the House of Representatives and Oyo State House of Assembly, Mrs. Folake Olunloyo-Oshinowo and Mr. Jelili Adeleke winners of the elections respectively.