Wife of the President, Hajiya Aisha Buhari, has donated undisclosed amount of money to 48 victims of the recent Gombe bomb blast admitted at the Federal Teaching and Specialists’ Hospital (FTH), Gombe.

The term VIPs which stands for ‘Very Important Personalities’ is used in some parts of the world especially Africa to refer to distinguished persons but in Nigeria it is used to identify persons who operate without recourse to law.

Former Super Falcons midfielder, Maureen Mmadu has backed the national team to over come their Equatorial Guinean counterparts when they clash in today’s Rio 2016 Olympic Games qualifier in Bata, Equatorial Guinea.

The Acting Executive Chairman, Federal Character Commission, FCC, Alhaji Mohammed Bello Alkali has called on the Senate to comply with the commission’s guidelines and formulae in areas of the provision of employment opportunities, distribution of infrastructural facilities, socio- economic amenities and other indices.

Rotary District 404 B-2 Nigeria, under its new District Governor, the first female to be appointed to that office, is set to construct a hospice in Ado-Ekiti, where special care is to be provided for chronically, terminally ill patients and those in severe pains.

Effort to retool Software Nigeria to international market has started yielding the expected result as Microsoft at the just concluded 2015 Imagine Cup technology competition held in Seattle, Washington expressed interest on the possibilities of working with Team LifeWatch from Nigeria on their AsthmaVisor solution designed to supervise asthmatic patients.

The declaration by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) about Port Harcourt and Warri Refineries being resuscitated to produce about 8.5million of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly known as petrol daily has sparked controversy among fuel marketers and stakeholders in the oil and gas sector of the economy. While some people say the effort to revamp the plants would ease excessive importation of refined petroleum products into the country, others believe the plants do not have the capacity to meet even the demand for domestic consumption of fuel.

Despite the internal wrangling generated by the recent dissolution of its board by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), an interventionist agency set up to handle development issues in the oil producing areas of Nigeria, is still up and kicking. Recently, the agency has been on the road cutting tapes to declare most of its projects fit for use.

The ‘historic’ visit of President Muhammad Buhari to the United States of America has long come and gone. Mr President had returned to Nigeria, while his host, Barrack Obama had afterwards undertaken a tour of certain African countries, including his ancestral home, Kenya. The U.S. President’s visit to Africa immediately after Buhari’s sojourn had somewhat over shadowed the importance of meeting the president of the country once referred to as “Giant of Africa”.

Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM) on Saturday offered financial rewards of N91 million on its members who graduated in first class from different universities across the country.