Professor Dike N Kalu, author of Nigeria’s Adventures in Technology, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas Health Science Center, USA. In this chat with Vanguard Learning during his recent visit to Nigeria, he speaks on his book and says science/technology is imperative to the nation’s development.

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday warned against the careless killing of its members by security agents, lamenting that over 1,000 members of the group have been publicly and secretly killed since their leader was arrested and detained.

ABUJA — THE Senate, yesterday, vowed to probe former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan as well as ministers who served under them to correct alleged violation of the master plan of the nation’s capital city.

ABUJA — The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, yesterday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that his fight against corruption was conducted within the ambit of the law.

ABUJA — Nigeria is currently saving N647.2 million daily from the suspension of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit, also known as petrol.

THE Senate, yesterday, uncovered the release of N4 billion to 11 construction companies to undertake the repairs of roads without mobilizing to sites.

THE South-South Pen Pushers ,SSPP, has dismissed reports accusing Justice Mary Odili of facilitating Governor Nyesom Wike’s victory at the Supreme Court.

The sagging infrastructural condition of the Owerri Federal Prison and the over-flowing population of it’s inmates, is giving the Deputy Comptroller of Prisons, DCP, Mr. Matthew Kalu, sleepless nights.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, said Tuesday that only candidates who were cleared and who participated in the March 28, 2015 national assembly elections would participate in the Anambra Central senatorial re-run scheduled for March 5, 2016.

EDO State Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Dan Orbih, has maintained that projects commissioned by Governor Adams Oshiomhole at the state-owned Ambrose Alli University, AAU, were those funded and completed by interventionist agencies including the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN and the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFUND, promising to open a can of worms on how the university had been mismanaged.

Former Special Adviser on Political Matters to immediate past Vice President Namadi Sambo, Abba Dabo, has said he was never arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in connection with the ongoing probe of $2.1 arms cash.

A team of medical doctors based in the United States of America, USA, under the auspices of Global Eagle Foundation, has performed open heart surgeries on five patients at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Adazi Nnukwu in Anaocha Local Government Area, Anambra State.

Students of Yaba College of Technology, YABATECH, Lagos, yesterday, went on rampage, protesting the death of a final year student at the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Ebutte-Meta.

The National Petroleum Investment Management Services, NAPIMS, has received the backing of the Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change, NDIMRC, on the approval of $260 million contracts for ExxonMobil’s Usan Field.

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has said that the forthcoming 50th Years’ Anniversary celebration of Lagos State would be used to project the black race at home and in diaspora.