As Nigeria today joins the rest of the world to mark 2015 World AIDS Day, the World Health Organisation, WHO, yesterday announced that the Millennium Development Goal that called for halting and reversing the spread of HIV on a global basis was met with 7.8 million lives saved in 15 years.

ABUJA — The blame game between the Judiciary and Executive arm of government continued yesterday, with the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, decrying what he termed “lack of political will to prosecute high-profile corruption cases.”

OWERRI—Operatives of Imo Security Network, ISN, in collaboration with Imo Community Watch, ICW, have rescued an eight-year-old boy (names withheld), who was kidnapped by hoodlums.

LAGOS —Professor of political economy and co-founder of Pan African University, Professor Pat Utomi, has said that it is not government’s role to create jobs but to make policies and create enabling environment for entrepreneurs to thrive and create the needed jobs.

AN estimated 2.9 million people living with HIV/AIDS out of 3.4 million Nigerians diagnosed last year are not receiving treatment needed to suppress the infection. Those affected, most of who are currently living in hiding, are not only at risk of death from HIV related illnesses, but are also infecting new people, causing a surge of the disease.

IN the eight years of Obasanjo’s presidency, there was no headline-grabbing demand for Biafra. Ditto for the eight years of the Yar’Adua/Jonathan presidency. However, within months of Buhari’s presidency, the Igbo demand for Biafra has become deafening.

Following repeated accusations by Amnesty International and other international rights groups of brutalization and human rights abuses by the Nigerian Army in the war against Boko Haram insurgents, the Nigerian Army has inaugurated a joint Nigerian Bar Association, NBA/Nigerian Army human rights monitoring team as part of measures to improve human rights protection and reduce abuses by military personnel.

FROM a seamless electioneering campaign to an acrimonious polls and now a season of inconclusiveness: inconclusive death, inconclusive election and inconclusive replacement, the brouhaha generated by the Kogi polls is fast turning into a national problem.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday announced a loss of N240.987 billion in its operations for 10 months, between January and October 2015.

The Business Planning Manager, Saudi German Hospital (SGH), Iftakhar Asfi has stated that the hospital management will be establishing, at least, two hospitals in Nigeria, as well as partnering with Nigerian medical colleges, noting that it was bothered by the dire health needs of Nigerians, particularly, the medical bills spent abroad.

“Buhari   told the Nigerian community in Iran that those accused of corruption would have been prosecuted by now but for the need to thoroughly investigate them with a view to gathering enough evidence for their eventual trial. He admitted that it was easier for him during his tenure as a military Head of State […]

Although when Seriake Dickson chose him to be his running mate in 2012, retired Rear Admiral Gboribiogha John Jonah, OON, was regarded by many observers as being a political neophyte his performance as Deputy Governor over the last four years has proven the choice to have been highly appropriate. The accomplished Naval Engineer whose illustrious career in the military had seen him rise to become the Commandant of the National Defence College (Nigeria’s highly rated War College) in Abuja, before his voluntary retirement, has been a calm and steady lieutenant to the outspoken and sometimes volatile Governor who, though he is his junior in age, is certainly far more experienced than him in partisan politicking.

National President of Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, Chief Obasi Lawson, has called on Pipelines and Products Marketing Company, PPMC, to decentralise loading points of petroleum products in the country.

Five decades after the death of former Minister of Finance, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, executor of his will, Mrs. Jadesimi Alero (nee Okotie-Eboh), has claimed that one of his property does not belong to him (minister) but belongs to her.

THE Itsekiri nation buried their differences and gathered to give a befitting burial to their departed monarch, Ogiame Atuwatse II, the Olu of Warri, at Ode-Itsekiri, their ancestral home, Delta State.