KEBBI State has stepped up the pace and intensity of routine immunization of children against vaccine preventable disorders particularly against the backdrop of earlier controversy surrounding polio immunisation in parts of the country.

SENATE Committee Chairman on Police Affairs, Senator Paulinus Igwe-Nwagu, yesterday debunked claims in some quarters that the Nigeria Police lacked the capacity to bring to an end the menace of insecurity caused by the Boko Haram in the country.

Nigeria’s built environment recorded a very significant stride in the quest to addressing the nation’s 16 million huge housing deficit as Enugu State based estate management firm COPEN Services Limited, last week commissioned and delivered 180 housing units at Goshen and Jubilee Estates, Ogui Nike Community in the state.

The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday failed to give account of 65,000 barrels of crude oil out of the 445,000 barrels of crude allocated to it daily for domestic consumption.

GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceutical in collaboration with the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria, (ACPN), has initiated the Neighbourhood Vaccine scheme to create easy access to affordable vaccines.

MR Tunji Meshioye and Azuka Mpi have emerged winners of this year’s Ford Relay Challenge which held in Lagos on Saturday. The two winners went home with a brand new Ford Focus each. The grand finale of the relay was held at the OceanView Restaurant, Victoria Island, Lagos with Ford representatives from South Africa, Mr. Ezio Tuniz and Dale Reid present at the occasion.

FORMER President of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG and a member of the House of Representative, representing Akoko-Edo, Federal Constituency of Edo state, Comrade Peter Akpatason, has embarked on free medical service for the people of the constituency to boost their access to quality healthcare services.

The hope of ‘the common man’ to have a roof over his head was brightened last week when the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, FMBN launched the informal sector co-operative housing loan scheme in Lagos.

The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, yesterday, reserved its judgment on an appeal that was lodged against Governor Timpre Sylva of Bayelsa State by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

The Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, will be sold to investors at a price far below its actual value if the planned demutualization programme is concluded at the current declining state in the capital market, says Mr. Victor Ogiemwonyi, Managing Director, Partnership Investment Company Plc.