Two young men,Dare Adekunle (22) and Ismaila Bankole (30), were yesterday remanded in prison custody for allegedly killing one 16-year-old Ikechukwu Ijeoma during a robbery operation.

AS the public hearing of the revised 2012 National Health Bill got under way in at the National Assembly Abuja Monday February 12, expectations remained high among a wide section of Nigerians that the Senate will come up with a comprehensive new National Health Bill, NHB, that would realistically address basic primary health challenges in the country.

ABUJA—Simmering tension is brewing in the National Assembly following the refusal of President Goodluck Jonathan to sign the 2013 budget on account of the alteration of the appropriation plan by the legislature.

The floods which ravaged many parts of Nigeria last year are still very fresh in the memories of many . Virtually every state in the country had one tale or the other to tell about the rampaging floods which destroyed farmlands and rendered millions of people homeless in places like Kano, Jigawa, Cross River, Taraba, Adamawa, Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, Imo, Niger and Anambra states.

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ASABA—DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has dared community leaders spearheading the campaign for the Federal Government to stop the payment of 13 per cent derivation fund through state governments, to go to court.

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The Federal Government has again assured Nigerians that it is irrevocably committed to full reconstruction and rehabilitation of the Lagos- Ibadan Expressway.

To ensure pharmaceutical companies embrace the anti counterfeiting technologies, the National Agency for Drug Administration and Contro, NAFDAC, has enlisted Pharmasecure and UBQT to provide the Mobile Authentication Service, MAS, technology.

IBADAN — FOLLOWING insinuations that Governor Abiola Ajimobi led administration is making moves to fill the 21 years old vacant post of Ashipa of Oyo, the deposed claimant to the stool, the Alago of Ago Oja, Chief Ganiyu Ajiboye Busari, has gone to court to stop the government, its agents or other persons from taking such action, among others.

Nigeria’s latest drop in oil and gas export has further dented its reputation as a reliable energy supplier, at a time when demand for imports is falling in the United States and Asia has an increasing choice of suppliers.

The Joint Task Force, JTF, of 4 Brigade, Nigerian Army, Benin has handed over 18 suspected oil thieves to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for further investigation and possible prosecution.

ABUJA—Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Senator Bala Muhammed, has said that building of 1,500 houses for the Abuja Centenary Village would help to solve some of the housing challenges in the city.

THE Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has absolved its members, particularly, the Petroleum Tanker Drivers, PTD, from any form of petroleum products adulteration, saying that “the authorities should be held responsible for the rot in the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry.

A total of 184,543 children aged five years and below were immunised against the wild polio virus in Ogun state between January and December 2012.

The Management of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company, (DISCO) has raised an alarm over the increased rate of vandalism of its equipment in many parts of its network in Lagos.