No fewer than 334 million people representing 39 percent of the population of sub-Sahara Africa lack access to clean drinking water. Similarly, about 600 million people which is approximately 70 percent region’s population, lack access to sanitation.

WORKERS in the nation’s construction industry have expressed serious concern over the increasing cases of kidnapping in the South-East and general insecurity in the country.

*It’s a shame we are in court over my fathers will…
Chief Emeka Ojukwu Jnr is the son of late Ikemba of Nnewi, Chief Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu and a member of Board of Trustees, BOT, All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA. In this interview, he called on the state governor, Mr. Peter Obi to find a way of working with embattled former Chairman in order to save the party from being consumed by crisis. He also disassociated the party from the recent merger of opposition political parties. Excerpts:

DESPITE the controversies generated over the fiscal regime, in terms of tax and royalty being proposed in the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, currently undergoing legislative scrutiny at the National Assembly, the technical team that prepared the bill insists that proposals are still very highly competitive.

ABUJA — United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Terence McCulley, Monday, met the Minister of State for Defence, Erelu Olusola Obada, Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Azubuike Ihejirika, Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Mr. Oguche, on the current security situation in the country.

NIGERIAN healthcare professionals have been called upon to discard the spate of competition, confrontation and distrust in the health sector and embrace the spirit of collaboration, consultation and cooperation among one another in the interest of the health consuming public.

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 — The Supreme Court, Monday, adjourned till June 21 to deliver ruling on a fresh application seeking to sack Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State from office.

Stakeholders have decried the growing incidences of rape and child abuse in the society, arguing that the problem has become a major public health concern.

Nigerians have continued to pour encomiums on the late literary giant, Professor Chinue Achebe, who died in Boston, United States of America, USA, last Thursday.