The interim national chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Bisi Akande, is to remove himself from seeking the office in the forthcoming national convention of the party.

NO fewer than eight doctors, four nurses and five health workers were, yesterday, feared to have contacted Lassa fever after they participated in operating a pregnant woman at the Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, FETHA

DELEGATES representing National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, have asked the members of dreaded Boko Haram Islamist sect, to forward their grievances to relevant committees of the Conference.

LAGOS — A member of the six‑man armed robbery gang said to be terrorising Ajangbadi, Shibiri, a Lagos suburb and its environs, has been nabbed by security operatives.

FEDERAL Government, yesterday, made it clear that it would not visit the sin committed by the alleged mastermind of the Nyanya bombing, Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche, on his father, Col. Agene Ogwuche, unless the latter was found wanting of terrorist related activities.

Nigeria reigning athletics champion, Blessing Okagbare has expressed determi-nation for a better outing at the Shanghai Diamond League billed from this weekend in China.

THE National Conference Committee on National Security has recommended the removal of immunity clause from the 1999 constitution to tackle the menace of what it called “impunity” among office holders in the country.

African record holder in the womens 400 metres event Chief Falilat Ogunkoya has questioned the federal government’s commit-ment to the development of sports in the country.

THE People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has expressed displeasure over the partiality shown by state broadcasting station, EKTV.

Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Nigeria has urged the Federal Government not to accept the condition by Boko Haram sects to swap the over 200 abducted female students of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State with the captured Boko Haram militants.

DEPUTY Chairman, Committee on Science and Technology, Engr. Ezekiel Izuogu, has said that lack of facilities has hindered the Nigerian Communications Satellite from tracking and rescuing the abducted Chibok school girls.

The National Assembly looks set to approve President Goodluck Jonathan’s request for extension for another six months the state of emergency declared by the Federal Government in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states in May last year.

The frenzy in the quest for succession to Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has suddenly turned cold. But it is not as if the about two dozen aspirants in the race have dropped out of the contest to manage the oil rich state.

Governor Kassim Shettima of Borno State has said that if negotiating with the Boko Haram sect would bring back the abducted Chibok schoolgirls, the Federal Government should not ignore the option.

The Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Adesina Akinwumi, has called on foreign and local investors to consider the current scientific best practices, availability of land, and good climatic conditions as reasons to support and invest in agriculture in Nigeria.