Yenagoa—President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, lamented that Bayelsa State lost eight of her best women leaders in the Valentine Day auto crash along the Ahaoda axis of the East-West Road in Rivers State.

The Independent National Electoral Commission has expressed worry over the refusal of people to collect 560,285,000 Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, in the state.

Former Golden Eaglets captain, Nwankwo Kanu has tipped the national under-17 team doing battle at the CAF Under-17 championships in Niger Republic, to win the trophy and also do well at the FIFA world cup later in the year in Chile.

Vice President, Mohammed Namadi Sambo yesterday said that the 10 newly-completed thermal power plants would add about 4,700 mega watts to the national grid.

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, in conjunction with Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, on Monday kicked off a Diploma training in Telecommunications Management Studies for the commission’s staff in Abuja.

The Director General of the National Sports Commission, Hon Gbenga Elegbeleye has identified with the grass root concept of the Akwa Ibom State/NNPC/MPN Schools Athletics Championships.

UMUAHIA—ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, in Abia State University, ABSU, Uturu, yesterday, began an indefinite work-to-rule to protest non-remittance of their nine months check off dues by the university authorities.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting women globally. Incidence of breast cancer is increasing rapidly in developing countries to which otherwise second common next to cervical cancer. This could be due to adoption of urban life style in developing countries like Nigeria.

Justice Evoh Chukwu of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday , deferred judgement on who should be recognised as the authentic governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Enugu State, till Friday.

Political stakeholders in Bauchi State have expressed worry over the viability of the card-reader machines introduced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, against the backdrop that most of machines used for same purpose during the continuous voters registration exercise were faulty.

The Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria, CRFFN, has taken up a life insurance scheme of N1 million, for its members in case of death.

Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate, Mr Nyesom Wike, has berated the All Progressives Congress, APC, for refusing to support the military following its successes in decimating Boko Haram in the North-East.

Imagine waking up one day and found out that you can no longer identify colours? Imagine being hungry and alone with food stock in your kitchen you cannot help yourself but continue to yawn. This is the situation currently experienced by 52 years old Mr Ejiro. A father of three children can no longer use his sight no thanks to Glaucoma, the second most common cause of blindness.

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, yesterday, arrested a Nigerian based in Johannesburg with 36.850 kilogrammes of narcotics at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, which was about to be smuggled to South Africa.

Brent crude oil rose more than $1 to around $60 a barrel on Tuesday after Libya’s largest oilfield stopped production. The Sarir oilfield in Libya shut because of a power cut, in a further blow to exports from the OPEC member. Brent for April was up $1.10 at $60.00 a barrel, recovering from an earlier low of $58.10. U.S. crude was up 60 cents at $50.05.