Rivers State Government has attained 100 percent routine immunisation coverage as declared by the World Health Organisation, WHO, through its revitalisation its primary healthcare system. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Parker Tamunoiyoriari Sampson, in a chat with CHIOMA OBINNA shortly after receiving an outstanding Government Healthcare Programme of the Year award at the just concluded Nigerian Health Care Award, NHEA, in Lagos speaks on the priority areas that resulted in the reduction of unnecessary deaths of children and women in the state.

The Police in him was brought out on Monday when former Inspector- General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Gambo Jimeta warned fellow delegates that shouting would not in any way intimidate anyone.

Delta Forum for Transparency and Probity, DFTP, has asked the National Judicial Council, NJC, to investigate a judgment delivered by Justice Mohammed Abubakar of a Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State for alleged miscarriage of justice.

CHARLES KUMOLU navigates through the aviation sector before 2011 till date and writes that it would be in the interest of the Federal Government to sustain the gains recorded in the sector lately.

Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi has bemoaned the non recall of his assistant coach, Sylvanus Okpala who was disengaged from the team after the Eagles won the African Cup of Nations in South Africa in 2013.

Senator Akin Odunsi, yesterday, faulted the Federal Government for paying lip service to youth employment in Nigeria, saying that the country was sitting on a keg of gunpowder, if the unemployment situation was not urgently addressed.

AFRICA’s relatively untapped insurance market offers a vast opportunity for firms in both mature and emerging-market countries, a report by A.M Best has said

Leading opposition leader and former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari has flayed the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP for supposedly politicising the country’s national security and vowed not to be distracted from the goal of unveiling the lies of the ruling party.

A middle aged man, Oforma Itodo, has been allegedly hacked to death in Aji Community, Igbo- Eze North Local Government Area, Enugu State, barely four days after burying his mother.

Nigerians and its health care professionals in particular, received a Valentine season present from the National Assembly on Feb. 19th. 2014. The senate passed the National Health bill, aka SB 215, after its 3rd reading. It had received its first reading on October 2nd 2012 and the second on December 12th 2012. The Articles of the Bill are divided into 7 Parts:

FORMER Ghanaian Vice President and global speaker on leadership change, Mr Nana Akufo-Addo has attributed the inability of Africa to attain a proper place in the comity of continents to leadership failure.

The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has said that more than three million persons are faced with humanitarian challenges arising from the problem of insurgency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States.

JOS— Academic activities at the Plateau State University, Bokkos, were paralysed yesterday, with some roads blocked as students protested the killing of one of them by suspected armed robbers.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday raised the cash reserve ratio of bank’s private sector deposit from 12 to 15 per cent. This will lead to withdrawal of N350 billion from the banking system and indirectly occasion increase in interest rates.

ONITSHA—An Onitsha High Court in Anambra State, presided over by Justice Chudi Nwankwo yesterday granted an application to bring and display all the weapons used during the kidnap of Chairman of GUO Motors Limited, Chief Godwin Okeke in Onitsha on Sunday, August 23, 2009, by his kidnappers.