As 2014 goes into the archives today, corporate and non-governmental organisations, NGOs have begun to honour those whose activities stood them out as heroes and heroines. It was against this backdrop that Leadership Watch, an NGO, recently honoured the late Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh whose timely intervention saved millions of Nigerians from contracting the deadly Ebola virus disease, EVD.

IT was and still is the single most talked-about issue in Nigeria in the last one year. Although its existence predated the Goodluck Jonathan administration, insurgency has been that single elephant of an issue that has dominated the room of national discourse in the last one year. It brought activists campaigning for the return of the Chibok girls out on the roads of Abuja on Christmas day 2014. It was on the lips of the hundreds of thousands of Nigerians that have been displaced from their homes in different parts of the north-east, and their families. The Pope didn’t forget to mention it in his Christmas message. And it would continue to dominate news about Nigeria until an end is put to it.

Akure—Letters of Promotion have been presented by the Ondo state government to 4,001 teaching and non teaching staff of Public Secondary Schools in the State.

IBADAN—GOVERNORSHIP candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Oyo State, Senator Teslim Folarin, has appealed to politicians to eschew violence and avoid mudslinging, if the primary motive of contesting is to serve the people.

Residents of Umuaku Uli, in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State have continued to lament the untold hardship they have been facing, following the abandonment of the only road linking their community to the ever-busy Onitsha-Owerri expressway.

Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Onitsha, Most Reverend Valerian Okeke, yesterday appealed to politicians and journalists to allow peace to reign in 2015.

GOVERNOR Gabriel Suswam of Benue has presented the 2015 appropriation bill of over N98.6 billion to the Benue House of Assembly for consideration.

The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Suleiman Abba, yesterday donated N7 million to 14 wives of the 35 police officers declared missing in Borno, to alleviate their suffering.

IGBO leaders have described as wicked rumour that Ndigbo were responsible for the December 10, 2014, twin suicide bomb explosions that claimed several lives in Kano.

HOUSE of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta Affairs has invited officials of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs to appear before it to explain how an alleged N605million zonal intervention fund allocated to the ministry suddenly got missing.

The ultimate humble pie for a governor is to look askance in the process of choosing his successor. It is no easy thing for Governor Martins Elechi.

PEACE has finally returned to Umudike, Ikwuano Local Government Area of Abia State, after 11 years of fierce inter-community crisis.

The Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, has condemned the crisis rocking the Odi community in Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, arising from the management of the N15 billion compensation paid to the community as a result of the Odi massacre of 1999.

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, the Federal Capital territory, FCT, yesterday, stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from using any list of candidates from Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the purpose of the state House of Assembly, House of Representatives and Senate in 2015 general elections.

A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, senatorial aspirant, Mr. Ehiogie West-Idahosa, who recently lost the Edo South senatorial seat primaries to Mr. Matthew Urhoghide, has alleged threat to his life, three weeks after the primaries.