A member of the Committee on Political Parties and Electoral Matters, Prof. Muhammed Nur Alkali, has decried the prohibitive cost of contesting elections in Nigeria and called for urgent solutions

ABUJA — Human Rights Writers’ Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, yesterday, urged the National Assembly to order an independent forensic audit of Defence and Police budgets from 1982 to date.

There is a group of persons in Benin-City, Edo State who have staged protests about the low-level of power supply and the fixed charges paid by the customers of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC. The group is the Benin Forum and it has carried its protests to the Edo State House of Assembly and the Edo State Governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole.

Financial analysts at Dunn Loren Merrifield (DLM) has said that the demand pressure in the foreign exchange market will occasion depreciation of the naira.

DELEGATES may not have to buy newspapers, unless if their preferred choices are not among the complimentary copies brought daily to both National Judicial Institute, NJI and the NICON Hotel venues of the 20 committees.

As death bears its fang again, question is: ‘Who will die in the next second as we read this? Every 45 seconds, a child in Africa dies of Malaria – according to Prof. Chinedu Chukwu the Hon Minister of Health! As we celebrate the World Malaria day on 25th April, the introduction of “Technology to Fight Malaria” may have accelerated the hope to save more lives – more than ever before. The theme for 2014 and 2015 is: “Invest in the future. Defeat Malaria”. It is estimated that with the newly developed Malaria Destroyer Game (MDG), Nigeria can resolve her colossal malaria by 50% in the shortest possible time in compliance with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Frontline mobile device makers, Samsung last week in Lagos, unveiled three new devices comprising of latest Galaxy S5 smartphone and wearable device line, the Gear Fit and Gear 2.

Chief Nzemeka Olisa, the Chairman, Anambra Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, said yesterday that the state had achieved more than 80 per cent target of Millennium Development Goals, MDGs.

THE 2013 Access Bank Conference which held in Lagos recently with theme ‘Embracing Sustainable Leadership’ focused on sustainable leadership practice with a view to capturing the essence of exceptional leadership as well as highlighting the expectations and challenges of leadership in today’s very dynamic world.

There appears to be tough time ahead for software pirates in the Nigerian IT market as the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, ISPON, in collaboration with Microsoft Nigeria are in fresh move for intellectual property protection.

SOME delegates could not easily trace the venues of their committees yesterday, as they kept walking from one committee room to the other, searching for where their committees were sitting.

Nigeria’s U-20 head coach, Garba Manu, and his U-17 counterpart, Emmanuel Amuneke, are to attend two football tournaments taking place in Croatia between May 26 and June 8, 2014.

WIFE of the Delta State governor, Mrs Roli Uduaghan, has charged journalists in the country to always verify their stories before publishing and avoid reports that could mislead the general public, urging journalists to do their job with the fear of God.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has struck out the charge against the Commissioner for Insurance and Chief Executive Officer of National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, Mr Fola Daniel.

Anambra State government is to purchase 100 tractors in the first week of May as part of plans to boost agriculture in the state.