BENIN—STAKEHOLDERS in the South-South have appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint the out-going Resident Electoral Commissioner in Edo State, Mr Mike Igini, as replacement to the out-going Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega.

Yenagoa—Bayalsa youths in the All Progressives Congress, APC, under the aegis of Bayelsa Youth Network for APC, have expressed dismay over what they called the “intimidation and unwarranted arrest” of APC supporters in the state during the just concluded general and re-scheduled elections in Bayelsa.

Irked by the less than impressive state of healthcare in the country, Methodist Old Girls Association and the Arise Women Medical Outreach have called on the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that all Nigerians have access to quality healthcare.

If indeed money is the root of all evil; then the devil would have been an idiot, not the crafty fellow he is reputed to be, if he did not set up shop in every bank on earth. Where else is so much money on display every day?…

As the world yesterday marked World Blood Donor Day, World Health organisation, WHO, has called for increased regular blood donations from voluntary, unpaid donors with a view to saving millions of lives annually.

As part of its commitment to identify and groom football youngsters at the grassroots in Nigeria and make them world stars, Pepsi Football Academy at the weekend selected two outstanding players of the Academy, Nneku Joseph and Ekeh Divine for a two-year full scholarship at Brooke House College in United Kingdom.

THREE construction staff of Okmas Nigeria Limited, abducted by a seven-man kidnap gang along Patani-Oduophori Road in Delta State, have regained their freedom after spending 25 days in captivity.

A former Per-manent Secretary in the United Nations, Professor Agboola Gambari, has told President Muhammadu Buhari that ‘change’ must not remain a slogan because he was elected on that platform, hence he must be prepared to deliver on all his campaign promises.

Two teenage boys, both aged 10, were weekend confirmed dead after drowning in a river at Madaka village in Gagarawa Local Government Area of Jigawa State.

Concerned by the over 500 deaths from cholera recorded in the country this year, United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has raised alarm over increasing cases of the deadly disease, urging Nigerians to adopt good personal hygiene practices throughout the rainy season.

Workers in the upstream sub-sector of the oil and gas industry have said Federal Government must seek alternative ways of funding Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, joint venture, JV, operations with oil companies.

Residents of Gbaji-Seme, a border community in Badagry West Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, has asked the Federal Government to allocate to them at least 10 percent of the total annual revenue collected from Seme Border, to facilitate community development.

A total of N738 billion worth of agricultural products were imported into the country in the first quarter of 2015, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in its latest foreign trade reports. Agricultural imports increased by N132.1 billion or 21.8 percent from N606 billion in Q1 2014 to N738 billion in Q1 2015, the data show.

“At the CBN, we are doing a lot of things to promote resource efficiency, energy efficiency. We thing I can proudly tell you is that we have connected to the national grid. Before we were running on generators but now we have connected to the National Grid, so our generators are no longer running 24/7. Secondly, we are also in terms of energy efficiency, we shut down systems at certain periods rather than leaving the system running 24/7- apart from essential systems. We are also using energy efficient bulbs.

The Nigerian Academy of Education, NAE, weekend, attributed the inability of the academia to carry out successful academic research work to poor funding of the education sector in the country.