Patients often ask if they should consider surgery in the treatment of their back pain.

LAGOS—FORMER Ogun State governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel has expressed optimism that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will win convincingly, the April 11, governorship election in the state.

Athletics Federation of Nigeria officials are targeting a clean sweep of the All African Games billed for September in Congo Brazzaville after the Nigerian team made a triumphant return from the African Junior championships in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia last weekend.

ACTUALLY, it is a bit unfair to single out Mr Ayodele Fayose, the alleged rigged – into – office governor of Ekiti State( just listen to the hottest audio record in Nigeria, the Ekiti Election Rigging Tape) as the one, within the ruling party’s crowded barracoon of desperate power-mongers, whose recklessness is fast approaching a suicide bomber’s. Who, I ask you, plays second fiddle to another among these intrepid contestants for the prize of Enemy of Democracy Number One : Fayose; or Call-Me-a-Bastard-if-APC-Survives Doyin Okupe, aka Dr. Attack Lion; or Femi Fani-Kayode, whose congenital case of logorrhoea, “excessive and often incoherent talkativeness or wordiness,” is his only stock-in-trade; or AIG Joseph Mbu, non-card carrying member of the PDP; or Mujahedeen Asari Dokubo who threatens war if Jonathan loses the election; or National Security Adviser Dasuki, the de facto INEC Chairman; or Mrs. Patience Jonathan, who doesn’t need change because she is not a bus conductor and who knows a thing or two about “brain dead” people; or President Goodluck Jonathan himself, whose refusal to curb the excesses of his troops and corresponding eagerness to reward high crimes (as in nominating the prime suspect in the criminal subversion of democracy in Ekiti for ministerial reappointment), betrays a clear preference, his public utterances notwithstanding, for a hand-picked interim government over a democratically elected one?

Chevron Corp. will increase asset sales by 50 percent to $15 billion and curtail new investment for the next two years after plunging oil prices squeezed cash flow.

The Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA) Nigeria yesterday said Nigerian seaports have attained international standard in terms of infrastructure.

NFF President Amaju Pinnick has called on players of the U-20 National Team, Flying Eagles, to go all out and grab a World Cup ticket when they file out against their counterparts from Congo-Brazzaville at the 19th African Youth Championship in Senegal on Wednesday.

The U.S. Commercial Service, the export promotion arm of the Department of Commerce, doubled its presence in Africa over the past year to boost trade with some of the world’s fastest growing economies.

THE Federal Government,yesterday, concluded the scrapping of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission in line with recommendations of Steve Oronsanye’s Committee on the restructuring of federal agencies and parastatals.

There was drama, yesterday, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, as 18 political parties contesting the forthcoming general elections engaged in physical combat during a protest against alleged bias of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.