(AFP) – The death toll from the Ebola outbreak tearing through West Africa has passed the 1,500 mark while the number of cases has soared past 3,000, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

NIGERIA’S former military dictator, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida recently attained the age of 73, and he chose to celebrate it by dwelling on national issues such as states creation, insecurity, politics and of course general state of the nation. While I relished IBB’S interview in two newspapers, Thisday and Daily Trust, I however took exception to his view about state creation, mostly as it concerns the South East.

THE Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, yesterday, said corruption in the education sector, particularly in tertiary institutions, persists due to absence of political will to bring those who violate due process to account.

Nigeria on Thursday said that a doctor had died from Ebola in the southeastern oil city of Port Harcourt in the first case of the deadly virus outside the financial hub, Lagos.

By Ben Agande Abuja — The Federal Government declared, yesterday, that in spite of the huge success it recorded in curtailing the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in the country, it has not yet completely eliminated the virus. Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, disclosed this yesterday when he spoke with state House Correspondents after the […]

Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, yesterday, explained why he was the target of attacks from some politicians within and outside the state.
According to him, “most of the people opposed to me are in the rank of those I assisted one way or another, some by contract awards but they failed to deliver.”

Niger’s head of parliament, who faces questioning in a probe into international baby-trafficking, has “discreetly” left the country for Burkina Faso, an opposition official said.

LAGOS— A 36-year-old man, Daniel Edet, was yesterday arraigned before a Lagos chief magistrate’s court sitting at Ebute-Metta for allegedly defiling his 11-year-old stepdaughter (names withheld).

First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, on Wednesday urged women to register ahead of the polls in 2015.

The head of parliament in Niger will be interrogated as part of a probe into international baby-trafficking, sources said on Wednesday.

AFTER five hectic months, the 492-member National Conference set up by President Goodluck Jonathan, completed their assignment with the submission of a 22-volume report consisting of 10,335 pages and 600 resolutions to the president.

There were fears yesterday that Boko Haram terrorists may have relocated the over 200 abducted girls of Government Secondary School, Chibok and other abducted victims from Sambisa forest to their new haven in Balmo Forest, which borders Borno and Bauchi states.

IBADAN—ROYAL Fathers in South West of Nigeria, yesterday warned that recent declaration of Gwoza ‘caliphate’ in the North-Eastern part of the country by the Islamic Fundamentalists, Boko Haram, was meant to provoke the country to full scale war.

AS a measure to curb industrial unrests that normally paralyze economic activities in the country, the federal government has approved the establishment of industrial dispute directorates in the six geo-political zones.

THE spate of endorsements ahead of the 2015 governorship elections in Kwara State, has so far indicated that predicting the eventual outcome of the race might not come easy like in the past.