The presidency has stated that it cannot bestow the National Honours Award posthumously on Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh, the Senior Consultant/Physician and Endocrinologist at First Consultant Hospital in Lagos, who many noted ‘sacrificed’ her life to curb the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) by restraining Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer, who was the index case of the Ebola Virus Disease in the country to his bed.

As both primary and secondary schools nationwide are expected to resume today in compliance with the directive by the Federal Government, parents and teachers have, however, been thrown into confusion following counter-directives by some state governments which have fixed different dates for schools to resume.

Indications emerged last night that Nigerian troops may have scored a strategic victory in the current battle against terrorists operating in the North East on September 17.

MINNA—Three people including the paternal grandmother have been arrested by the Niger State police command for slaughtering a 9-year-old boy and using the body to prepare peper soup delicacy.

Special Adviser on National Assembly Matters to President Goodluck Jonathan, Senator Makanjuola Ajadi, weekend said the adoption of President Goodluck Jonathan as the sole candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2015 presidential election, was the best thing to happen to Nigeria as a country.