The embattled former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki, (retd), yesterday, failed to persuade an Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama, to quash the 19-count money laundering charge that was preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

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.