Nigeria will be losing about N342.4 million ($2.14 million) daily, as Italian oil firm, Eni, yesterday, shut down its 20,000 barrels per day crude oil pipeline in Nigeria.

OGUN State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, yesterday, said that all health and other relevant officials in the border areas of the state have been put on red alert to forestall the spread of the deadly Ebola virus

The Nigeria Football Federation have proposed an improved contract that will pay coach Stephen Keshi seven million Naira a month (over $44,000), a top official has revealed.

Alhaji Fatai Akinbade, is the Labour Party, LP, governorship candidate. He served three military administrations as a commissioner before he joined the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the inception of the Fourth Republic in 1999. He later became the state chairman of the party which produced Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola as the governor of the state in 2003. He was chosen the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, before he voluntarily resigned. He has, however, dumped the PDP for LP, whose flag he is now flying for the election. He spoke on his plans and policies for Osun State in this exclusive interview

THE Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese, Most Rev. Paulinus Ezeokafor, has called for quick resolution of the dispute between government and striking members of Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, in view of the dreaded Ebola disease threatening the health of Nigerians.

UNIVERSITY of Ilorin, UNILORIN, yesterday graduated 114 medical doctors, urging them to uphold the ethics of the profession and be good ambassadors of the university.

DR Tivlumun Gabriel Nyitse, a former journalist and one-time correspondent of the defunct Concord Newspapers where he rose to become an editor among several appointments. He later served as Permanent Secretary, Benue Government House Administration. He is currently aspiring to become the next governor of Benue state come 2015. In this interview he speaks on his aspiration.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that sharp increases in interest rates may cause global economic growth rate to decline by two percent over the next five years.

The impeachment process against Governor Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa State suffered a setback, yesterday, as the state House of Assembly rejected a seven-member panel already probing allegations against the governor by the lawmakers. The lawmakers arrived at the decision after considering a petition written by a group, Nasarawa Concerned Citizens accusing the State Chief Judge, Justice Suleiman Dikko who constituted the panel of bias.

Yenagoa— The Bayelsa State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, and Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO, have called on Governor Seriake Dickson to give priority to the development of agriculture and the rural communities.

THE death of a Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, of Ebola Virus disease in a Lagos Hospital last week, is fueling fears that the deadly disease may have spread beyond Africa, after two persons were quarantined in separate instances on Hong Kong and the UK for showing Ebola disease-like symptoms following their trips to Africa.

NIGERIA’S education system has been on the decline. According to a recent World Bank study; “employers complain that the quality of university graduates and secondary school graduates, especially their communication skills, has been falling continually for two decades”.

Survivors of the carbon monoxide inhalation incident at a prayer vigil in Aba, Abia State, last weekend, have continued to thank God for saving their lives.

FATE has a way of intruding into our individual and collective lives in ways that might eventually prove providential. The text message from Mr Sule arrived on Thursday, July 10, 2014 and on Saturday, July 12, 2014, I found myself at the Redemption Camp – for reasons which cannot now be disclosed.

KANO — Three persons died, yesterday, while seven others were injured when a teenage female suicide bomber blew up herself at the entrance gate of Central Administration of Kano State Polytechnic located on BUK road where final years students were perusing the NYSC mobilisations list for Batch B Corps members.