Nigeria said on Friday that two more people had tested positive for Ebola, taking the total number of confirmed cases of the deadly virus in the country to 14, including five deaths.

The Nigeria Air force yesterday buried late flight Lieutenant Akweke Junior Nwakile who died in a helicopter crash in Bama, Borno State on 21 July amidst wailing and grieving by family members and friends of the young officer.

Ohaneze Ndigbo, the umbrella sociopolitical body of Igbo in Nigeria, has hailed the unrelenting efforts of the Nigerian military in the battle to dislodge Boko Haram (invaders) terrorists from the nation’s shores even as the group sympathized over the casualties and sacrifices troops were being subjected to.

The Military Pensions Board has cried out that following the high casualty recorded by the military in the on-going battle to dislodge Boko Haram terrorists from the North East and North West parts of the country, is making it difficult for the board to pay death and other benefits.

THE just-concluded National Conference succeeded largely because of non-interference by the Presidency in the deliberations, Deputy Chairman of the conference, Prof Bolaji Akinyemi, has said.

Lagos State Police Command is currently investigating the circumstances surrounding the kidnap and murder of a 20-year-old undergraduate, identified as John Chinedu Okere, who until his death was a 300 level Electrical Engineering student at Covenant University, Otta in Ogun State.

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has commended the Federal and Lagos state governments for curbing the spread of the Ebola virus in the country.

Ex-militant leaders from the South-South region under the aegis of Leadership for Peace and Cultural Development Initiative (LPCDI) have announced the setting up of a five-man Reconciliation Committee to intervene in the feud between the former member of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Eris Paul and the Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson.

About 69% of Nigerian students who wrote the last West African Secondary School Certificate Examinations, WASSCE, failed. If this statistic is anything to judge the education sector by, it would mean that only about three out of ten students currently in the nation’s secondary schools will be qualified for the tertiary level at the end of their secondary school careers.

AHEAD the October 11 gubernatorial election in Adamawa State, strong indications emerged yesterday that the presidency may have bowed to criticisms trailing its support for former Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, just as it has made a U- Turn on him.

FOUR persons believed to have lost their lives in Calabar in the last two days in gun shootout between two rival cult groups, the Vikings Confraternity and KK group.

The Honourable Minister of Sports and Chairman, National Sports Commission, Dr. Tammy Danagogo has insisted that the General Assembly of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), where elections into the Executive Committee of the football-ruling body are to hold must take place on August 26 in Warri, Delta State.

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article captioned ‘This beauty that makes me sad’. It was centred around my experience on a cruise where I touched on the beauty of nature and our inability as a country to harness and use nature for the common good. It was an article that led to comments on twits, blogs and emails. A friend and reader described it as ‘your soliloquy on the sea’. It was an apt description; why didn’t I think of it?

Nigeria is becoming an inheritor of strange diseases by the day but the people have a way of surviving. New ailments are developing everyday and somehow, they find their ways into our land.

Sultry and sexy Yoruba actress, Biodun Okeowo known in the industry as Tolani Oshirin is without doubts one of the hottest and most talented Yoruba-speaking actresses on the scene right now. With eight movies of her own and having featured in close to fifty of others, Biodun is certainly a face to reckon with in the Yoruba sector.
In this interview with Showtime Celebrity, Biodun bares her mind on her person, career, family and even some secrets she had never before revealed.