A year or so to the governorship election in Ekiti State, leaders of the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, are devising strategies and structures to sustain their hold on the state, but dissension is coming from unexpected quarters.

Three persons, including a medical doctor have been confirmed dead in an outbreak of lassa fever in Makurdi, the Benue State capital.

The brutal murder of one of the community leaders in Isiebu autonomous community, Nze Hilary Onuoha, has sparked angry reactions from the youths.

Few days into 2013, the recent survey report on Industrial Development in Nigeria, with the theme Industrial Development: performance policy issues, constraints and prospects carried out by Professor Olawale Ogunkola of University of Ibadan, and Femi Aborishade of Ibadan Polytechnic, was the subject of a round table discussions by manufacturing sector unions and other stakeholders.

Health, they say, is wealth and a healthy nation is a wealthy nation. Despite this truism, so many people the world over, especially in developing countries, do not have access to adequate health care and where they do, the cost is out of the reach of many. To solve the problem of reaching the unreached and making health care affordable, a US-based Nigerian physician, Dr. Steve Ayanruoh, invented a machine he calls Hospital-in-a-box.