Former Super Eagles player and assistant coach, Sylvanus Okpala said the national team will rise above the lack luster performance it displayed against Chad in their opening match of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.

A member of the House of Representatives representing Ijebu North,Ijebu-East and OgunWaterside in the National Assembly, Segun Adekoya, has lamented the incessant killings by rival cult groups in Ago-Iwoye and the Ijebu axis.

THE Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, yesterday, attributed alleged corruption at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to what he termed “lack of operational budget,” saying the era of non-provision of budget for agencies of government to function was over.

NIGERIAN health care providers have been admonished to be always patient-focused in their professional deliberations so that they can live up to the expectations of the public at large. Making the call in Lagos, Provost of the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, CMUL, Prof. Folashade Ogunsola, said in agitating for better working conditions and environment, the health team should not forget the patient.

The U-20 Women National Team, Falconets, will begin their quest for a place at the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup against Liberia next month.

Hell was let loose, Monday, when two young men employed as security guards for MFE Gas Station, located along Iju Road, Ifako-Agege, Lagos, mobilised their gang members from Okene, Kogi State, to rob the gas station they were employed to protect.

Following results from a recent study that imported turkey and chicken in the Nigerian markets are unfit for human consumption, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has threatened to deal ruthlessly with smugglers and dealers found with the banned products.

NERC, in a statement in Abuja, directed AEDC, to with immediate effect from the date of this Order, commence the refund through energy credit of all excess charges billed its customers as a direct consequence of the adjustments in estimated methodology in some of the company’s business units.

Tramadol is typically used for the management of moderate to severe pain, such as for after surgery and for ongoing pain from arthritis. When it was approved in 1995, tramadol was thought to be safer and have a lower risk of addiction than other narcotic pain relievers, with fewer gastrointestinal side effects for older adults who needed long-term pain relief.

Although Nigeria has achieved tremendous growth in Information and Communications Technology, ICT, since independence, the booming sector is also going through some challenges. Despite tremendous success recorded in ICT since the liberalization of the sector, there are still tremendous opportunities for growth, job and wealth creation that must be harnessed by government.

“He should re-enact presidential committes on sectors like that of tourism, which he himself will be the head. By doing that we will rub minds and together appreciate the problems and solutions.He should also implement the tourism blue prints and also establish the tourism bank which will always see reason to come to the aid of tourism practitioners whenever the need arises. These little steps if taken, will surely bring this economy to its glorious past” he added.

A presidential aspirant of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, Abdulwaheed Odusile has said that he would sponsor a Bill for the early payment of salaries of journalists if elected during the forthcoming 2015 Delegates Conference of the union in Abuja.

The federal ministry of Labour and Productivity and the Human Capital Providers Association of Nigeria (HuCaPan) are collaborating to tackle the abuses associated with labour outsourcing to bring it in line with Decent Work Agenda of the International Labour Organization (ILO).

Rising from its first plenary session after inauguration, the Lagos State House of Assembly yesterday passed a resolution calling on the State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode to direct all relevant agencies to sanitize the state of traffic gridlock.

A large number of diaspora Nigerians have called on the new Nigerian government to put to practice the much campaigned love for Nigeria as well as ensure it diversifies the country’s economy. This they insisted should be done by making concerted efforts towards charting a pathway through which Nigeria’s reliance on a mono-product for financing development could be relieved, stressing that developing other possible sources of revenue for the country would bring a huge relief.