Residents of Mosafejo village in Oshodi area of Lagos State have cried out over the demolition of their houses by Lagos State government.

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has given the go-ahead for the immediate payment of workers’ salaries, contrary to his earlier directive that the workers should be screened before payment of October 2015 salary arrears.

The Presidential Amnesty Office has said that it has no mandate to admit additional beneficiaries into the Presidential Amnesty Programme designed for ex-militants in the Niger Delta.

AN oil magnate and a chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State, Olorogun Okiemute Okwagbe, has faulted the plan by the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation, NNPC, to build more mega stations across the country.

Brothers and sisters, I start Joyful Homes, this week, by giving thanks to the Almighty God for life.

Immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, spent most part of yesterday with operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in Abuja, telling all that he knew about arms purchase during this tenure as Chief of Air Staff and later as the CDS.

Lagos—Governor Akinwunmi Ambode led administration in Lagos State has commenced the process that will lead to the disbursement of N6.5 billion 2016 budgetary allocation for the payment of all entitlements as well as arrears of its pensioners.

THE management of the Lagos Uni-versity Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi Araba, Lagos has refuted reports of alleged crisis at the health institution. It said the allegations of delayed December 2015 and January 2016 salaries, non payment of Skipping Allowance, among other issues, was an attempt by some minority groups of the Lagos State Branch of the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, to give the impression of impending crisis at the institution.

A professor of Medical Oncology, Prof. Julie Gralow, has said that for Nigeria to reduce incidence of cancer, the country must bring survivorship to the center stage. Speaking at the 2nd Omolara Jolaoso Memorial Lecture to commemorate the 2016 World Cancer Day, Gralow, of the Department of Medicine, University of Washington and Director of Seattle Cancer Care Alliance in the US, said presently the US has over 14 million cancer survivors while the cancer death rate dropped 20 percent since 1990. She added that the five years survivor rate for cancer patients exceeded 90 percent.

IN 2014, the Ondo state gov-ernment established a Kidney Care Centre as part of its medical village as part of moves to urgently nip in the bud, the rising incidences of Non Communicable Diseases in the state. During a tour of the Centre, Good Health Weekly gathered from the Chief Medical Director, Dr. Akin Bodewa Akinwunmi, that from a study carried out in Akure South and Ondo West in 2014/2015, High Blood Pressure had a prevalence of about 75 percent while obesity among women was more than 90 percent.

Prospective patrons and fleet managers willing to access soft bank loans to procure Hyundai vehicles at discount price without necessarily undergoing bureaucratic bank charges can take advantage of Hyundai Motors Nigeria and Diamond Bank PLC ‘Dream Deal’ vehicle finance offer the management of both organizations have announced that this scheme will run till end of February 2016.

Ibadan—Not fewer than six people, including students of the Polytechnic, Ibadan were said to have died in a fatal motor accident that occurred on Ibadan-Oyo road yesterday.

ISSUES of sexuality especially as regards the girl child and her empowerment, will take the centre stage as Victor Mba,one of Nigeria’s most talented artists opens his first solo exhibition at Didi Museum, Lagos tagged In The Beginning. Mba who is having his first solo after turning to art 6 years ago, after a stint in the banking sector, has taken up the huge task of interrogating the pros and cons and the brouhaha relating to sexuality of not just Nigerians or Africans but that of the entire globe.

The office of the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has dismissed allegations of a supposed tweet by him in the Twitter exchanges between Senator Ben Bruce and Hon. Chibuike Amaechi as reported by a national daily.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has said that it had no plans to turn Nigeria into a one- party state, saying however that the party would become stronger to win future elections in the country.