Hollywood Director Spike Lee and actress Jada Pinkett Smith, said they would boycott next month’s Oscar Academy Awards ceremony because black actors were shut out of nominations.

Rivers Commissioner for Health, Dr Theophilus Odagme, said on Tuesday that daughter of a Lassa Fever victim had been taken into a temporary holding centre for close observation.

The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Mr. Boboye Oyeyemi, has attributed the reduction of Road Traffic Crashes, RTC, in 2015 by 12.99 percent to Federal Government’s and the World Bank’s robust support to the commission.

IKOT AKPAN UDO—WHY is the Akwa-Ibom State Government observably indifferent in bringing to book the armed youths, who in August 2008, invaded the peaceful Ikot-Akpan Udo community, Ukpum Ette clan, Ikot –Abasi Local Government Area of the state, killing 13 persons and razing over 500 houses despite the cries of the people for justice in the last eight years? The lethargy of state government, which in November 2008, set up a Commission of Inquiry that did not submit its Report on the incident until 2014 because of sharp disagreements among the members, also emboldened the attackers, July 12, 2015, to storm the village again, and abduct and murder 32-year-old Joel Sunday.

That is not right, we need to master plan the capital territory, decide that this zone is high density, this zone is low density, this zone should have four-storey buildings, 12 –storey buildings, these are the kinds of infrastructure that one must provide before you can even construct a house, etc. It is when you have such master plan that you will start to talk about development. That is how they do it in any other city; you also include master plans for drainage, sewerage and sewage treatment, supply of water, mass transit system, etc. They will all be integrated and then, we start addressing them one by one.