NIGERIA has called for a practical, pragmatic and action-oriented new urban agenda that will transcend the Habitat Agenda. The Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Mrs Akon Eyakenyi who made the call recently at the first preparatory conference for the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban development, Habitat 111, held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA, called for the emergence of “a new Urban Agenda that will exert similar lasting influence, building on agreed relevant international sustainable development goals, and with clear goals, principles and plan of action”. The new agenda will also ensure “that we leave future generations with a prosperous future”.

ALL Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, has vowed to dislodge the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2015 governorship election.

What happens when you receive and respond to a distress call, but end up getting attacked by hoodlums who pretend to offer assistance to the victims, loot personal effects at the scene and leave you with varying degrees of injuries?

ABUJA—AS the Senate prepares to resume next Tuesday, after two weeks of self-awarded holidays to mark the Independence Day and Eid-El-Kabir celebrations, there are indications that the engagements of almost all the senators in political campaigns to either get re-elected into the National Assembly or other higher offices, may adversely affect legislative activities.

In honour of Master James Musa and Miss Aishat Opakunle, two promising young Nigerians who recently lost their lives as a result of bites from a rabid dog, the Nigeria Veterinary Medical Association, NVMA, Lagos state chapter, recently commenced free vaccination of dogs and other household pets in Meiran area of the state under the Alimosho Local Government.