SECOND Republic senator and elder statesman, Senator Francis Okpozo, has admonished the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, not to play politics with the screening of ministerial nominees, saying the interest of Nigerians must come above the personal interests of senators.

The Kogi State Chairman, All Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Hadi Ametuo has described Prince Abubakar Audu as a man of integrity and the only political leader with genuine commitment to the development of Kogi State.

ON Monday this week, VANGUARD newspaper carried a report that the National Assembly will soon commence a constitution amendment process, towards ensuring immunity for heads of the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary. The hint came from Leo Ogor, Minority Leader, House of Representatives, in an exclusive chat with VANGUARD.

Hospital-in-a-box makes it possible for relevant and crucial patient information including multiple examinations results and their corresponding digitized images to be shared and compared with others elsewhere in order to properly and accurately evaluate the health of the patient. With Hospital-in-a-box, a patient almost needs not go to the hospital. Rather, the hospital ‘goes’ to the patient.

ASABA—A joint team of soldiers and policemen has shot dead a member of a five-man kidnap gang which abducted the proprietor of Derag Eateries, Ozoro, Delta State, Mr Bamidele Daudu.

AND, at the top of public education is the university or tertiary institution. That Nigerian education is in shambles is no longer debated; that most of our universities turn out graduates unfit for employment is no longer news. The most alarming aspect of all these is the fact that governments – Federal and States – don’t appear to give a damn about it. One example will be sufficient to illustrate the point. But for the awkward bail-out arranged by the Federal Government recently, some states, including those governed by the APC, owed university staff up to seven months salaries and entitlements.

THE Ondo state government has increased the number of teachers in Primary schools in the state with 900 National Certificate in Education (NCE) holders.According to the state’s Commissioner for Information, Kayode Akinmade, the 900 were redeployed from the local government service into the state Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) to address the need for more teachers in Primary schools across the state.He reported thata three-day refresher course for the teachers is holding in four zones in the state with a centre each in Ondo, Akure, Okitipupa and Ikare .

AN American professor emeritus of education, Dr. Ivan Welton Fitzwater, once said “the future of the world is in my classroom today, a future with the potential for good or bad. Several future presidents are learning from me today; so are the great writers of the next decades, and so are all the so-called ordinary people who will make the decisions in a democracy.

ORGANISED Labour and its civil society allies, yesterday stormed some industrial locations in Lagos to protest increasing abuse of workers’ rights casualisation, indecent work and inadequate pay to mark the Decent Work Day, declared by the International Labour Organisation, ILO, on October 7, annually.

A new report from Developing Telecoms backed by the United Nations Children’s Fund , UNICEF, the United States Agency for International Development, USAID and Mobile Phones Association, GSMA, released yesterday has revealed how mobile phones transform emergency response in developing countries by unlocking untapped reserves of local knowledge, resourcefulness and creativity.