MAIDUGURI— Two of 462 Internally Displaced persons, IDPs, at the residence of Senator Ahmed Zannah and eight others at Alhaji Komi Damboa’s house were, yesterday, reported dead, following an outbreak of cholera.

On the 10th of October, it will be World Mental Health Day. This is a day set aside by the World Health Organisation, WHO, for people all over the world to focus on the importance of Mental Health to human society, and to pay especial attention to the scourge represented by Mental Illness in all its varieties.

BEFORE now in Edo state, the administration of local government councils in the state was like compensation for political loyalists and those who bear the brunt are the people at the grassroots.

AS the tribunal of inquiry into the road accident and subsequent arson and vandalism of Bus Rapid Transit, BRT continues its public hearing, the Nigerian Army, Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA and LAGBUS Asset Management have disagreed over what transpired before, on July 4, 2014 and thereafter

Nigerians and consumers of medicines in the country have been admonished to embrace the ideals of the community pharmacist home health care initiative as a benefit package preferred by Home Care Pharmacists within the sector.

Cross River State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has advised aspirants for political offices in the state to eschew violence or face disqualification.

WARRI—Delta Police Command has rescued a kidnap victim at Okpara in Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, shooting one of the suspected kidnappers in the process as others fled the scene with bullet wounds.

Anambra State Chapter of Nigerian Optometric Association, NOA, has said no fewer than 20 million Nigerians are totally blind.

OBALENDE is a densely populated neighbourhood of Lagos, located on Lagos Island. The area houses many important federal government edifices such as former seat of the Federal Military Government, the Dodan Barracks, before its relocation to Abuja.

PRESIDENT of Pan African Parliament, PAP, and a member of the House of Representatives, Bethel Amadi, has said Imo State stinks of mal-administration.
Amadi, who represents Mbatoli/Ikeduru Federal Constituency in a chat with journalists, said: “What we have in Imo State today is a complete state of mal-administration that has set the state backward by 10 years.

EXCEPT for one or two states in the Niger Delta region, where there seems to be some kind of sanity, local government chairmen in the region act like thin gods. Their style of governance is baffling as they reside and administer their councils from outside the council areas, and so, hardly know their people.

The Director General of the National Automotive Council, Engr. Aminu Jalal has disclosed that a local content policy will be launched next year to support the new auto policy in Nigeria. Engr. Jalal stated this recently during a chat with Motoring journalists at Sheraton hotel Ikeja, Lagos.

Few are in a better position to compare Governor Theodore Orji and his immediate predecessor, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu than Chief Eric Nwkamnma who served both men as deputy governor.

Securitymen attached to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s Hilltop residence in Abeokuta, yesterday, prevented a former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel from gaining entry into Obasanjo’s palatial home.

Society for the Promotion of Better Nigeria, PBN, yesterday, decried the continued closure of the state owned courts, saying it has slowed down the wheel of justice on the brutal murder of four students of the University of Port Harcourt at Aluu, two years ago.