ABUJA—Second Republic lawmaker, Dr. Junaidu Mohammed, has dismissed the newly registered Peoples Democratic Movement, PDM, as a party made up of expired politicians, with no fresh ideas on how to move the nation forward.

Malawi travels to Botswana on September 3 for a final preparatory match for a crunch World Cup qualifier in Nigeria on September 7 in Calabar.

RESIDENTS of communities in Ishielu Local government area of Ebonyi State are presently living in fear of an imminent disaster. Their fear derives from the belief that the Eguho-Ebonyi bridge in the area would soon collapse if urgent steps are not taken to either rehabilitate or reconstruct it.

Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has called on leaders to give necessary support and encouragement to women as they strive to take on high level responsibilities in all spheres of human endeavours.

The Chairman of the governing board of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), General Salisu Inrahim (Rtd.) has called on stakeholders in the maritime sector to collaborate with the management of the Council to help achieve its goal of creating the right environment for trade facilitation in Nigeria.

Did you know that drinking water in the morning upon waking up can have amazing therapeutic effects for a multitude of health conditions—ranging from pain to asthma to cancer? Do you love drinking water? If you don’t, think twice.

This edition is the concluding part of the article by Comrade Salihu Lukman, a former assistant general secretary with the Nigeria Labour Congress on the inclusion of the National Minimum Wage on the concurrent rather than the exclusive list as it is now. The first part was published on August 1, 2013.

Health of Mother Earth Foundation, HOMEF, yesterday, said that Nigeria loses more than $2.5 billion through the flaring of associated gas annually.

The Central Bank of Nigeria said its N220 billion Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSMEs) Fund will help participating financial institutions to support entrepreneurs.

Professor Sadiq Suleiman Wali (OFR) is a consultant physician mainly in hepatology and gastroenterology and has interest in infectious diseases. In this chat with Vanguard Learning in Abuja, the former Kano State Commissioner for Health andChief Physician to five Nigerian ex-Heads of State, speaks on his research work in meningitis control, treatment and prevention. Excerpts:

Transportation of containers by rail from the nation’s seaport to the hinter land will by flagged off tomorrow by the Minister of Transport, Sen. Idris Umar, Managing Director of the Nigerian Railways cooperation (NRC), Engr. Adeseyi Sijuwade, has said.

…As souvenir bearing his picture floods Jalingo
Ahead of the governor Danbaba Suntai of Taraba State expected return to the state, several mementos bearing his pictures have flooded the state capital, Jalingo.

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, has decried the rising level of receivables in the economy noting that many businesses are carrying huge receivables in their books putting some organisations at risk.

LAGOS—ORGANISED labour in the nation’s Power sector, has faulted media report credited to the Bureau for Public Enterprises, BPE, that more than 20,000 workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, had fully been paid severance benefits ahead of takeover of PHCN assets by new investors.

The Minister of Trade and Investment, Mr Olusegun Aganga, has said that the Federal Government’s National Industrial Revolution Plan could boost Nigeria’s investment portfolio and Gross Domestic Product (GDP).