The new Kia Rio has been awarded the maximum five stars for accident safety from leading European road safety organization, EuroNCAP.

With a maternal rate of 1,000 per 100, 000 live births, a group known as Women’s Health and Action Research Centre, WHARC has called for urgent attention to issues concerning a women and girl- child, blaming the high rate of maternal mortality in the country on failure of government to ensure a functional Primary Health Care system.

THE African Petroleum Producers Association, APPA, has revealed that it is working out a production sharing formula for its member countries, which it expects would be adopted by multi-national oil and gas explorers and other operators within the countries.

KADUNA State Governor, Mr. Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa has decried the prolonged delay in completing the Kaduna Eastern Bye-Pass, while calling on the Federal Ministry of Works to expedite action on the project to ensure its early completion.

In support of the Seeing is Believing Initiative, SiB, Standard Chartered Bank, SCB, Nigeria has doled out a total of N10 million to Nigeria Society for the Blind and Sight Savers International.

Ilorin- The National Assembly is to use legislation to tackle the ecological and environmental problems ravaging the country.

Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, last week successfully carried out a valve repair in the heart of a patient. The surgery which was carried out by a team of seven surgeons was completed after few hours of the exercise at the surgery department of the hospital.

This weekend’s gubernatorial election has 22 political parties in contention for the governorship. The prospects of four of the leading contenders Capt Idris Wada of the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Abubakar Audu of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Deacon Ubolo Opanachi of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and Barrister James Ocholi (SAN) of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) are considered here.

SINCE 2009, the one of the major occurrence that has become almost a recurring development in the Petroleum Sector is change in leadership. As the new helmsman Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR; Mr. Augustine Olorunsola prepares for his role as an industry regulator, Clara Nwachukwu writes that the challenges are many, as industry operators spell out their expectations to set agenda for him.

SEVEN months after his ordination as Catholic Archbishop of Benin Cosmopolitan See, Most Rev. Augustine Akubueze can now heave a sigh of relief in his apostolic duties as the Benin Liturgical Group, BLG, yesterday, withdrew its suit challenging his ordination.