Hope for a better outcome in cancer treatment was recently rekindled as Apollo hospitals made advances in surgical oncology. Over the years, surgical oncology commonly known as cancer surgery, a branch of cancer medicine that deals with the removal of cancerous growths in an organ has remained a challenge in most countries including Nigeria.

Former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has said that the loans taken by Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s administration from various sources since 2010 when he assumed office currently stands at over N480 billion.

A 49-year-old man, Olawale Aminu, has dragged the Director of Public Prosecution, DPP, and Commissioner of Police before an Ikeja High Court over his detention in prison.

IN view of the high number of election petitions arising from the national and state House of Assemblies elections, the Court of Appeal has constituted another election tribunal to hear the cases in Kogi State.

DESPITE warnings over the rising incidence of non-performing loans, NPL, especially as it relates to exposure to the energy sector, Skye Bank Plc gave out N449.872 billion loans to energy firms in two years, between 2013 and 2014. Specifically, information obtained from the bank’s Annual Report and Financial Statement for the 2014 financial year, showed that the bank recorded total loans and advances of N651.261 billion in 2014, compared to N549.858 billion in 2013.

“They did not meet my expectation in this regard. I am disappointed! I thought they would pass it, but they did not. What do we do? It means all the reforms that we have been expecting in the oil industry have been postponed.” Olawore explained that the passage of the bill by the House of Representatives was an incomplete exercise, adding that the Senate also needed to pass it before it is harmonised and sent to the President for assent.

When President Muhammadu Buhari, indicated that his administration will probe the $20 billion allegedly missing from the coffers of the government-owned, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, he appeared to have spoken the minds of many Nigerians. His resolve for the probe stemmed from the allegation by the immediate past governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, who said that about $20 billion made from the sale of Nigeria’s crude oil by the NNPC could not be accounted for.

PORT HARCOURT— Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, yesterday, dissolved boards of all parastatals and agencies, leaving that of the Rivers State Waste Management Authority and the Greater Port Harcourt Development Authority. According to a statement by his media aide, Mr Opunabo Nko-Tariah, the governor also promised to complete repair work on Iloabuchi- Eagle high land road in Port Harcourt within the next three weeks.

A pro-democracy organisation, Open Democracy Network, Nigeria, has expressed sadness over the decision of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to press new fraud charges against the former Bayelsa State governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, based on a case that had been dismissed by the court.

THE Edo State Election Petitions Tribunal, yesterday, ruled in favour of the candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC and member representing Akoko Edo federal constituency in the House of Representatives, Peter Akpatason, on the motion challenging alleged irregular signatures in the petition against him by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Oladele Bankole-Balogun.

A Federal High Court in Ado-Ekiti yesterday, sentenced four men to two years imprisonment for cultivating hemp farm.

EDO State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has alleged that the state government, since its inception in 2008, has collected over N200 billion as federal allocation meant for local governments in the state, lamenting that in spite of that, workers at the councils were being owed salary arrears running into months.

The Federal Government, yesterday, licensed four power generating firms to produce a combined capacity of 774 megawatts of electricity.

Embattled chairman of Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State, Mr. John Onyeakpa, has petitioned the state police command over alleged threat to his life.

The council boss is having a running battle with the 18 councillors of the local government, who last week served an impeachment notice on him over alleged misappropriation of the council’s funds.

“Thank you for bringing up the Savannah Bank saga and plight of the depositors. Honestly when I read this topic on Vanguard for the first time last month and the consistent write up that followed week after week, I cried. I cried because this is the first time a newspaper house (Vanguard) has actually written about the pains and struggles of depositors of Savannah Bank since the withdrawal of its licence in February 2002 (13 years now).