IN its effort to reduce crime in the state, the Borno State Police Command, yesterday, shot dead two robbers and recovered two AK 47 rifles with 10 loaded magazines.

For Edo Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, these indeed are interesting times. Sacked from its hold on the governorship in 2008 and now under attack from the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the party is faced with the prospects of going through the stress of sharing its tickets for the next round of general elections.

NIGERIAN medical health professionals and their counterparts from 11 other African countries have called on their governments to immediately implement and enforce relevant legislations and regulations that will prevent, control and reduce the incidence of counterfeit medicines.

NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday, in Ibadan, accused state governments of violating the provisions of the Pension Reform Act, PRA, of 2004, warning that such violation could soon lead to industrial unrest across the states.

October 29, 2010, will remain evergreen for Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Onuoha. This was a day, doctors in Reddington Hospital, Lagos repaired the heart of their three-year-old baby, Victoria Onuoha through non-surgical intervention called Device Closure of PDA’, a procedure that leaves no scar on the patient.

AT the public forum to commemorate the world development information day, held at the America Corner, in Lagos recently, the need for government to tackle the problem of poverty as well as stigma and discrimination among Nigerians came to the fore yet again.

THE new Edo State Police Commissioner, Mr. David Omojola, yesterday, resumed duties in the state, declaring that the police in the state would embark seriously on covert operations to stem the activities of kidnappers and cultists in the state.

Kwara State Governor, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has said that the decision of the Northern Consensus Committee not pick him as the North consensus presidential flagbearer on the banner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has prepared him to pursue his aspiration in future.

AS Nigeria joins the world to celebrate World AIDS Day, the United Nations has said that the number of new HIV infections and deaths from AIDS are falling globally.

NIGERIA, on the verge of major — some say decisive — transitional elections in 2011, is suddenly faced with growing security challenges that could spell doom unless there are appropriate measures to tackle them. These threats are both internal and foreign, considering situations within and the constant interception of imported arms.

IT’S been a week since former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, emerged the consensus candidate of the Northern Political Leaders Forum (NPLF) led by Adamu Ciroma who has been in the vanguard of the call for a president of Northern extraction to finish what some members of the Northern political establishment say is the unfinished term of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua who died earlier in the year.

THE country will take its rightful place among the comity of nations. In partnership with like–minded politicians that abound in other parts of the country this new crop of Northern liberal leaders will ensure that Nigerian politics will return to the politics of values and openness that make for the vibrancy, stability, dynamism, consistency and competitiveness seen in other lands.

FROM the moment Emmanuela Okechukwu was brought into the office of Nigeria Down Syndrome Foundation in Lagos, her sobs and restlessness gave her mother a tough time. She constantly dabbed her eyes with a soaked handkerchief.

AFTER several years of failed trial, the Hydro-Power Producing Areas Development Commission, HYPADEC Bill was recently passed by the two chambers of the National Assembly and assented to by President Goodluck Jonathan.

EVEN as global attention focuses on the challenge of HIV and AIDS on ocassion of this year’s World AIDS Day tomorrow, Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Prof. John Idoko, says significant progress has been made in Nigeria since Declaration of Universal Access in 2005.