Eight members of Congress were among several dozen people arrested Tuesday as thousands of protesters converged on the US capital to demand immigration reform.

The Super Eagles had their first training session ahead of the crucial World Cup final round qualifier against Ethiopia on Tuesday evening at the mainbowl of the refurbished Abuja National Stadium with 18 players sweating it out for starter’s shirts.

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, yesterday, took up the incumbent, Stella Oduah, describing her as being unnecessarily petty in the handling of issues relating to the industry.

THE Ondo State Government, yesterday, clarified that it did not hire the aircraft of Associated Airline, which crashed last Thursday in Lagos, while conveying the body of former Governor of the state, Dr. Olusegun Agagu, to Akure for the commencement of the burial rites.

Barely 24 hours after President Goodluck Jonathan inaugurated the 13-man Presidential Advisory Committee, PAC, on National Dialogue,Editor-in-Chief and General Manager Publications, Vanguard Newspapers, Mr. Gbenga Adefaye, Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Ikeja Branch and other eminent Nigerians, yesterday, urged PAC leadership to consider in its recommendation the issue of effective public service delivery in the country.

President General of the Nigerian Supporters Club, Dr Rafiu Ladipo yesterday warned the Ethiopian Football Federation and its supporters club to desist from carrying out their threats of locking out the Nigerian band of supporters from watching the make or mar first leg World Cup cracker against Nigeria on Sunday.

Who monitors incidents of unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning in Nigeria? A review of medical records of patients receiving diagnosis of unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning shows Nigeria is in dire need of active surveillance for proper generator use. VF findings show that misplacement of portable, gasoline-powered generators, for instance, indoors, in garages, or outdoors near windows, is often responsible for fatal and non-fatal generator fumes exposures.

Still struggling to effect a change in the Nigerian polity, 11 governors on the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, have floated a separate forum known as Progressive Governors’ Forum, PGF.

THE Abubakar Kawu Baraje-led new Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, urged President Goodluck Jonathan to as a matter of urgency sack the Minister of State, Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike against the backdrop that the ministry was too strategic for him to handle.

Everywhere in Lagos, amidst lack of infrastructural maintenance, posh suburbs are springing up by the day. The real estate market in Nigeria and Lagos in particular, is booming.

The Federal Government, yesterday, withdrew charges before a Federal High Court Lagos, against 15 Russian sailors, charged with unlawful importation of arms to Nigeria.

STAKEHOLDERS at the ongoing Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, CTO Forum in Abuja yesterday, lamented the high cost of broadband in Africa, warning that it may mar the universal access targets in the continent.

THE Federal government on Monday said every Nigerian will have access to the internet in 2018.

THE Senate, yesterday, summoned the Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, Director-General of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, and the Managing Director of Nigeria Airspace Management Agency, NAMA to appear before it on an undisclosed date to brief senators on the situation of the aviation sector and the resurgence of crashes in the national airspace.

NATIONAL Chairman of the All Progressives Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh, who was elated at the large turn out of party supporters at the flag off of Willy Obiano governorship campaign described the event as ‘Operation Osmosis’ and commended the people of the state for deciding to rally round APGA to ensure that Igbo do not lose their voice in the country.