Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youths rose from an emergency meeting in Owerri, yesterday, condemning the recent attack on President Goodluck Jonathan’s convoy in Bauchi and Katsina states by irate youths, re-affirming their total support for the re-election project of President Goodluck Jonathan.

A political pressure group, Okoejebility, with over 30,000 members cutting across Delta North and Delta South senatorial districts, has been inaugurated in Sapele, Delta State, with a mandate to deliver Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in the state.

THE National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion, NOTAP, has introduced an educational and instructional tool aimed at planting the seeds at the basic educational level.

WARRI—PLACARD carrying Itsekiri and Ijaw riverine dwellers affected by the 2011 Bonga oil spill by Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, yesterday, besieged the National Oil Spill Response and Response Agency, NOSDRA, in Warri, Delta State, in protest.

The Acting Chief Medical Director, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi Araba, Lagos, Professor Chris Bode, says only the enactment of a policy that will outlaw strikes by unions or groups of workers in public health sectors in the country.

Although, they are not celebrated as their counterparts in the hip hop world, Nigerian gospel artistes are leaving no stone unturned in their bid to raise the bar. Weekend Groove takes a critical look at some of the gospel artistes that made 2014 very memorable.

So what does WHO mean by saying that health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being? What are those daily and “taken-for-granted”signs and symptoms of lack of health or sickness that we exhibit in our homes, in the offices, on the road, in our communities, among the high and the low?

Motorists and commuters plying the Jakande Gate-Iyana Ejigbo-Ikotun route will readily tell whoever cares to listen that they know what hell on earth means. According to them, it is the same as the traffic nightmare they experience everyday either going to or coming back from Cele Express or Oshodi via Isolo.

A model and Big Brother Africa season 9 housemate, Tayo Faniran and On-Air-Personality and a TV host, Toke Makinwa have started the year on a good note as they were recently unveiled to the public as the brand ambassadors of Payporte Global Systems Limited, an online shopping and retail brand.

YOUTHS of Ogulagha community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, under the aegis of Sokebolou/Yokiri Federated Youths, have issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Federal and Delta State Governments over alleged “non-inclusion of Sokebolou/Yokiri, Adedegbene, Oloseimoere, Agboromagbene communities in the Export Processing Zone, EPZ, project or face the wrath of the communities.”

The National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) recently requested the permission of the Kano State Emirate to establish an Islamic art museum at the defunct British Council’s premises in Kano.

LAGOS—Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, for Lagos state has called on law enforcement agents to provide adequate security for all parties involved in the coming election without any bias as this would further enhance the democratic process in Nigeria.

The Nigerian International Debt Fund (NIDF) , a Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, listed mutual fund plans to pay a minimum of N40.00 per note holder as final coupon to investors for the year ending December 31, 2014. A total of N25.2 million will be distributed amongst note holders on the register of the fund as at the closure date of February 5, 2015.

The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, said on Thursday that it had delivered 540 tonnes of relief items to Nigerian refugees taking shelter at different locations in the Diffa Region of Niger Republic.

ISLAMIC Cleric, Sheikh Al-Imran Eleha has urged Muslims to continue to offer prayers for the peace and development of the country particularly during the forthcoming general elections.
Eleha gave this charge during a Special Prayer for the Nation organised by leading Islamic Organisation in the country, Nasrul-Lahi-il-Fatih Society of Nigeria, NASFAT, held at Mowe, Ogun State.
Delivering a lecture at the event, Elaha tasked the Lagos State governorship running mates under the platform of the two major parties in the State, People’s Democaractic Party, PDP, Alhaja Olayinka AbdulKereem and All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr. Idiat Oluranti Adebule who were present at the occasion to be good ambassadors of Islam and Nasfat during and after the elections, adding that as leaders, they would be responsible for any act of violence carried out by their supporters.
Earlier, the President of the society Engr. Kamil Bolarinwa in his keynote address emphasised the potency of prayer as an indispensable factor in the life of every Muslim. “It is incumbent on us to beseech Allah for this nation for a peaceful general elections. We will offer prayers for all the organs of INEC, the security agencies, the politicians and all Nigerians. Islam enjoins Muslims to call on Allah in prayer and put their trust in Him,” Bolarinwa said.
He also urged parents to guide their children and wards against thuggery and violence.