The contest for the leadership positions in the National Assembly, last night, stretched out for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, which battled to contain a rebellion in its ranks.

The Nigerian economy is heavily dependent on oil, and the oil industry is driven mainly by the price and the volume of oil being produced. But the government of Muhammadu Buhari is coming at a period of downturn for the industry both locally and internationally.
However, there is a lot of uncertainties within the global industry occasioned by the crash in oil prices at the international oil market, and even worse for Nigeria, which is undergoing political transition and also solely dependent on imported goods and services for its economic survival.

“According to research, being obese can take up to nine years off of a person’s lifespan and increases the chances of developing a range of health related problems. Obesity is a growing problem in Nigeria and CWP provides an affordable solution for people who want to become healthier and live longer” said Eniola.

“Government should ensure that every Nigeria has access to medical care not necessarily a big hospital but a smaller clinic in every community or local government. “We can have more outpatient clinics which would address almost everything before referral to specialised hospitals for further treatment apparently for serious cases. The care should also be paid by the government.”

Twelve years ago this month, the 5th Senate was inaugurated with Senator Adolphus Wabara as Senate President and I was sworn in as Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, after my election to represent the Central Senatorial District of Cross River State. I was assigned Committees and made Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Solid Minerals with Senator Cosmas Niagwan of blessed memory as Chairman.

LAGOS, Nigeria’s acclaimed commercial nerve centre, has within the last two weekS been visited by two fire-related tragedies involving petrol tankers. The first happened on June 2, 2015. It was a day many residents, shop owners, land owners, children, businessmen and traders in the Iyana- Ipaja area of the state have already dubbed a ‘Black Tuesday’. And they have their reason. On that fateful day, property and valuables worth millions of Naira were lost to an inferno which left 14 people injured and rendered hundreds of families homeless.

Clerk of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, Mrs Umma Hikima, yesterday, proclaimed the inauguration of the first session of the Fifth Assembly, at the Lugard Hall, following a directive by Governor Nasir El-Rufa’i.

Speaker of the Anambra State House of Assembly, Princess Chinwe Nwaebili, yesterday, said the legislature passed 50 bills within her four years tenure.

Striking workers of Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, have denied barring the embattled Medical Director, Dr. Angela Uwakwem, from duty.

Americans are so used to their country being at war that one of the questions creeping up in the race for the 2016 presidential election is: Can America wage peace?

Rivers State House of Assembly, yesterday, passed a resolution asking Governor Nyesom Wike to sack members of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC and the Rivers State Judicial Service Commission, RSJSC over alleged abuse of their functions.

Legal move to disqualify Femi Gbajabiamila from emerging as Speaker of the House of Representatives failed before Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday.

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Kelechi Ubani, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, led by Governor Nyesom Wike cannot dissolve or nullify the May local government elections in the state.

A 23-year-old, Lebanese, Yve Awad, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, for allegedly attempting to traffic cocaine to Lebanon.

A prosecution witness, Mrs Joyce Okoli, yesterday explained to an Ikeja High Court how documents that were to be used in strengthening a N27.5 billion fraud charge preferred against the former Managing Director of Bank PHB (now Keystone Bank), Francis Atuche, in a matter, were found at the bank’s Central Shared Services (CSS) Centre.