OSOGBO — Osun State Government has declared that it will construct 1,000 low cost housing units as part of its urban renewal programme.

In a bid to reposition the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) for better housing delivery to effectively tackle the estimated 17 million units housing deficit in the country, the Federal Government has inaugurated an eighteen- member Steering Committee on Restructuring and Commercialisation of the agency.

WITH the wind of the 2015 general elections already blowing across the country, politicians are increasingly scheming for relevance. Some of them will stop at nothing in bringing whoever they see as a stumbling block down. Where they feel they cannot do it themselves, they use their hatchet men, including emergency journalists without a known or registered medium.

The present administration has come up with the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) in a bid to make the nation self-sufficient in food production and agriculture a profitable business. But, with the continual drift of the young population from the rural areas to the urban centres in search of white collar jobs and away from the drudgery of manual farm labour, self sufficiency in food production is becoming a herculean task.

RIVERS State Government has dismissed as untrue, claims by the factional chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state, Mr. Felix Obuah that he had invited Governor Chibuike Amaechi and the Minister of State for Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike to a peace meeting this week.

The Commissioner for Insurance, Mr. Fola Daniel has called for integration of the insurance sector in the West African sub region and Guinea-Conakry, saying that the move is not an option but an imperative.

A seven man Advisory Council on the Prerogative of Mercy has been inaugurated in Delta State, with a charge to assist in decongesting the prisons in the state.

Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola has added his voice to those advocating that the pension fund be invested in the development of housing schemes in Nigeria.

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WOMEN in Nigeria have been assured of better protection against breast cancer through through early detection, as the Care, Organisation and Public Enlightenment, COPE, Foundation commissioned two breast cancer screening machines to last week.

THE Enugu State Police Command said it has commenced investigations into the alleged ambush and murder of one Sunday Ugwoke at Akpa Edem in Nsukka Local Government Area of the state, Saturday.

Fleet Masters Limited is set to introduce contactless cards – an electronic payment solution that would enhance efficiency and sustainability of the mass transit business. This is coming three months after the firm launched two auto cards into the Nigerian market.

A 42-year-old suspected fraudster, Gbolahan Bolarinde, has been arraigned before an Ibadan Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting at Iyaganku for allegedly defrauding a kerosene dealer of N1 million.

Vitafoam Plc said it plans to approach the capital market soon with the intention of raising fresh funds to support its operations.

SENATE President, David Mark, Sunday, sent a condolence message to the President and members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, over the death of three journalists in a motor accident in Ilesa, Osun State, Friday.