A nutritionist, Prof. Ngozi Nnam, on Sunday said one out of every two women of reproductive age in Nigeria was anaemic as a result of iron deficiency.

The Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, has said that he was not plotting to stay on as the head of the organisation after May 29.

The The Senior Special Assistant to the President Jonathan on Public Affairs. Mr Doyin Okupe has again said that Nigerians miss took Jonathan’s meekness for weakness, restraint for lack of strength, reticence for inaction and calmness for indecisiveness.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday attended a thanksgiving service at London’s Westminster Abbey on the final day of commemorations marking the 70th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (VE Day).

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said that five babies were delivered at Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp at Kalambaina, Sokoto, between May 7 and May 9.

Suspected militants set off three small bombs on Sunday outside the home of an Egyptian judge who sentenced Islamists to death, wounding four people and damaging the building, police said.

The Chairman of Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara, Alhaji Luqman Owolewa, has joined other Nigerians to give support to Sen. Bukola Saraki’s senate president bid.

South Africa’s main opposition party the Democratic Alliance on Sunday elected Mmusi Maimane as its first black leader, a major step in its efforts to challenge the ruling African National Congress.

All Nigerians who have for long been baffled by how public servants including Presidents, Vice Presidents, Governors, Ministers and Special Advisers, Senators and Representatives, have been fleecing us need look no further than the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, which is charged with determining the remuneration packages of public officials. One of the first ruinous measures taken by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in 1999, and until now, was to select what in retrospect now appears to be conscienceless people to be in charge of RMAFC. Since any amount recommended by RMAFC becomes legal and binding on the Federal Government and States to pay, everybody can go home with a bundle claiming it was legitimate. On account of the recommendations of RMAFC, since 1999, Nigeria’s public officials have become the highest paid in Africa at least and in most of the world.

Liverpool must reluctantly subject themselves to the after-glow of Chelsea’s Premier League title triumph on Sunday as they attempt to keep their paper-thin hopes of Champions League qualification alive.