Apparently alarmed by the huge death toll trailing the recent consumption of locally made gin, (Ogogoro) Imo State House of Assembly, IMHA, yesterday, passed a motion urging the Governor Rochas Okorocha to direct the State Ministry of Health to trace and prosecute anybody producing locally made gin without the approval of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC.

It was an amazing Thursday evening of fun and fulfillment, as Nigerian budding YouTube stars making waves through their YouTube videos, shared their memorable moments with youths.

The Chancellor, Covenant University, Ota, Bishop David Oyedepo has said the only solution to the problems bedevilling Africa is quality education, noting that it is the foundation for nation building.

IMMEDIATE past governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has come to the rescue of the first quadruplets delivered at Delta State University Teaching Hospital, DELSUTH, Oghara in Ethiope West Local Government Area, by clearing their bills, following appeal for funds to the general public by their father, Mr. Ejike Anyanwu.

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Thursday, restored the benefits and entitlements of Mr. Celestine Omehia as a former governor of the state.

The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has dismissed reports that the Comptroller-General of Customs, Dikko Inde Abdullahi, allegedly kicked against the removal of printed textile materials from import prohibition list during the recent forum between the Service and Textile Value Chain stakeholders.

IMO State chapter of Nigeria Union of Pensioners, NUP, said yesterday, that its members were owed over N17 billion arrears of pensions and gratuity by the state government as at May 2015.

SECOND Republic senator and Niger Delta leader, Senator Francis Okpozo, yesterday described the manner Senator Olusola Saraki emerged as Senate President as intolerable in any disciplined democracy.

He’s one of the most prolific journeymen in European football and Samuel Eto’o is on the verge of adding another country to his CV after undergoing a medical at Turkey side Antalyaspor.

NIGERIA’S VICE PRESIDENT, Professor Yomi Osibanjo says no decent nation can tolerate the level of poverty currently ravaging the country and unless there is a functional social system where the highly vulnerable are assisted to survive, vast majority of the population would die before long.

In the Monday, June 15, edition of the Vanguard, an interview granted the Vanguard by Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, was published in which, unlike the beloved bishop I know him to be, he astonishingly claimed that “we elected a President not to look for scapegoats. We elected the President to get a job done.”

Prof. Jerry Agada was a former Minister of State for Education in the immediate past administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Adviser to former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and Secretary of the party’s Elders Committee in Benue State. In this interview, he spoke on why his party suffered a massive defeat at the last general elections and several other issues

Buoyed by the need to touch less-privileged kids, ex-international, Paul Okoku’s non-governmental organisation, Greater Tomorrow Children’s Foundation has marked this year’s World Hunger and Children’s Day by feeding about 200 pupils from Mainland Local Government Area.

The residence of leading Nollywood actress, Kate Henshaw in Lekki phase 1 area of Lagos caught fire on Thursday.

The All Progressives Congress (APC), Thursday, condemned what transpired at both chambers of the National Assembly.

In a statement, by its National Secretary, Alhaji Mai Mala Buni, the party said it stands by the list sent to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives over the choice of principal officers of the National Assembly.