Nigerian medical experts have been urged to demystify the diagnosis and treatment of malaria as part of strategies to reduce the burden of the disease in the country.

The Kaduna State Government has promised to pay the medical bills of victims of the April post-election crisis in the area.

A corps member, Dr Dakum Benji, serving in Olorunda Local Government Area of Osun, has provided free health services to hundreds of people, including women and children in the community.

The Chief Executive Officer of Greenland Music Productions, Wale Adesanya, on Monday urged musicians to stick to originality in their works in order to distinguish themselves.

MINISTER of State for Education, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, yesterday, distributed 360 laptops to Junior Secondary School, JSS (1) students of five selected federal and state-owned female secondary schools in Delta State, as part of Federal Government’s pilot programme to empower the girl-child.

Three teenagers were on Monday in London charged with the murder of Temidayo Ogunneye 15, a Nigerian school boy in the UK.

Two ex- governors from the U.S. and other facilitators are to lecture newly elected governors in Nigeria at an induction course before their inauguration on May 29.

A PASTOR of an Aba-based new generation church (names withheld) and six others were, yesterday, paraded by Abia State Police Command for alleged child trafficking.

BARRING last minute changes, the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, will dissolve the current cabinet this week.

One of the official drivers of the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Eric Chonu is dead. The late Chonu, a Police Constable, met his unprepared end, weekend, after he was hit from behind while riding home, on his motorbike, along the Lagos/Abeokuta Expressway.

THE prospects of outgoing members of the House of Representatives getting their enhanced welfare allocation before the end of their term dimmed, yesterday, following the resolution of Speaker Dimeji Bankole not to borrow on behalf of the members.

The Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Mr Mohammed Adoke, SAN, yesterday, described as worrisome, statements credited to some governors-elect to the effect that the accounts of the states where they won elections should be frozen until they are sworn into office, saying such actions were illegal and anti-democratic.

Residents of Avo Umuirem in Ntigha community, Isiala Ngwa North Council of Abia State, were in shock, yesterday, when they made a strange and startling discovery of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, ballot box stuffed with ballot papers, lying in a bush behind the village’s primary school.

Senate President, Senator David Mark, has identified the peaceful and successful transition and transfer of presidential powers at the demise of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua as one of the landmark achievements of the outgoing Sixth National Assembly that would forever remain indelible in the heart of all Nigerians.

NEW set of Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs, may emerge soon, as the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, yesterday, told a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja that it has decided to discontinue with the suit it filed against the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee, LPPC.