THE National Peace Committee, NPC, set up in the wake of the signing of a non-violence pact by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, President Goodluck Jonathan and his All Progressives Congress, APC, counterpart, General Muhammadu Buhari (ret), yesterday, expressed worry over some unpleasant comments emanating from the two camps in the build-up to February poll.

Dr Khaliru Al-Hassan, the Minister of State for Health, yesterday, inaugurated the Inter-ministerial Committee on Food Safety, IMCFS, and the National Food Safety Management Committee, NFSMC.

Aide to Prof. Rufai Alkali, Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Mr. Horsfall Sekibo, has said that the President Goodluck Jonathan administration had concluded over 70 projects in Rivers State, adding that it was only enemies of the administration that were saying that the president has done nothing for the people of the state.

ABUJA — THE House of Representatives Committee on Gas (sub-committee on Environment) yesterday asked officials of Chevron Nigeria Limited and representatives of communities ravaged by series of oil spills in Warri, Delta State to reach an amicable settlement within the next 10 days.

THE Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, has now been empowered to handle social issues of providing social security to the aged and unemployed in addition to the implementation of Employee Compensation scheme.

It was a year of intense activities for the National Gallery of Art (NGA). It began on an intellectual note with the maiden Nupe Art Conference/Exhibition which took place in the ancient city of Bida, Niger State. Traditional artists from the nooks and crannies of the old Nupe kingdom displayed different works ranging from paintings, sculptures and textiles to the admiration of all present.

It was Lyndon B. Johnson, LBJ, 36th President of the United States of America that said “freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.” He had asked Congress for $1.5bn in new school programmes aid, saying “nothing matters more to the future of our country.”

Work at the multi-billion naira Epu Cluster Gas Gathering project in Opokuma Kingdom, in Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, may be disrupted following an alleged disagreement between communities in the clan and Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC.

The Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, said, yesterday, it was considering an upward review of filling station licence fees for oil marketers and operators in the oil and gas sector of the economy.

Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari has expressed shock over the latest attacks by Boko Haram on Maiduguri, Konduga and Monguno in Borno State.

The trial of former governor of Kogi State, Abubakar Audu and Alfa Ibn Mustapha, former director general, Directorate of Rural Development in his administration continued, yesterday under Justice A.O Adeniyi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, sitting in Apo, Abuja.

History was made yesterday when the United State Agency for International Development, USAID, and US Pharmacopeial Convention, USP, presented an international accreditation known as ISO/IEC 17025: 2005 to the Central Drug Control Laboratory of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, for quality monitoring of pharmaceutical products in Nigeria.

Lagos—The All Progressives Congress, APC, Ikorodu Division, yesterday, refuted reports that the Lagos State governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Jimi Agbaje has been endorsed by indigenes of Ikorodu, arguing that he is not an Ikorodu native.

GOVERNOR Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, has blamed a resurgence of criminal activities, following Sunday gruesome killing of a serving Commissioner in the state House of Assembly Service Commission, Mr. Tobias Onyekele, on politicians yet to accept the concept of free and fair election.

Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, NAUTH, Nnewi, has lost over N90 million to the ongoing health workers’ strike called by Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, on November, 2014, which has crippled healthcare delivery in the hospital, just as many lives have been lost to the action.