HEALTH experts in Nigeria have said that the recurrent Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria is akin to a national embarrassment and that it will be no exagerration to describe it as a national tragedy. Expressing dissatisfaction, the Chairman, Lassa Fever Control Committee in Nigeria, Prof. Oyewale Tomori, who is President of the Nigeria Academic of Science, NAS, observed that Lassa fever that has been claiming lives over the past 47 years without concrete strategies to bring it under control, can only be referred to as a continuous national tragedy.

The Commandant of the Nigerian Merchant Navy, Commodore Allen Benson Edema, over the week, raised alarm from the confines of a police station at Tolu, Lagos state, alleging that Naval officers attached to Western Command, B-Croft, Apapa, were after his life. In fact, he claimed to be speaking from Tolu police station where he has been under protective custody based on constant assault by men of the Nigerian Navy in Apapa.

Nnewi — The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mr. Solomon Arase and the Director General of Police Assistance Committee, PAC, Dr Martin Oni have inaugurated the Anambra State branch of the Committee in a bid to eradicate crime in the area.

GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, yesterday, said he will hold the monarchs of Udu and Ogbe-Ijoh kingdoms responsible if further hostilities break out between Aladja and Obge-Ijoh, both entangled in recurring armed conflicts over the lingering boundary dispute.

The wife of late Biafran war lord Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, Bianca Ojukwu’s application to re-open her evidence-in-chief, in a suit she instituted against her husband’s family, was yesterday, granted by Justice Abdulfattah Lawal of a Lagos High Court, sitting at Igbosere.

THE House of Representatives Committee on Interior in its report, yesterday, has recommended the immediate dismissal of the prisons officer, SIP Idaa Odeh, who allegedly assaulted Joan Mrakpor last Thursday.

South African supermarket operator, Pick n Pay, plans to expand into Nigeria next year through a partnership with a local conglomerate, as it seeks to reduce its reliance on its home market, it said yesterday.

In a bid to remain on top as the pioneer platform where people can earn extra cash simply by posting items that are no longer in use and even those still in use, thereby giving buyers the opportunity to find value to the items at affordable deals in Nigeria, OLX has taken their business to a new level by launching a platform known as the OLX Champs.

Malaysian based Ofuobi Nwanneamaka International Social Club, yesterday appealed to Nigerians to be patient with the President Muhammadu Buhari administration saying that it is not easy to correct the damage of the past.

Vodacom Business Nigeria at the weekend scooped two industry awards at the Beacon of ICT (BoICT) Awards ceremony. One was the Enterprise Solution Provider of the Year, an award the company has won thrice; in 2013, 2014 and 2016.

The Director, Developer Evangelism, Microsoft Nigeria, Mr. Shina Oyetosho has said that unless tech start-ups scale up their software solutions for global market, they may not be globally competitive in the digital economy.

Lagos—Justice Aishat Opesanwo of a Lagos State High Court sitting at Igbosere, yesterday dismissed an application by Rickey Tarfa (SAN), challenging the jurisdiction of the court to the hear the case filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC.

Some retired judges in Ondo State have dragged Governor Olusegun Mimiko before the National Industrial Court, NJC, for failing to pay their retirement benefits since 2007.

The Electronic Media Content Owners Association of Nigeria (EMCOAN), the umbrella body of Radio, Tv and online entertainment content owners in Nigeria is set to hold the annual 2016 CEOs’ Business Seminar for its members on Thursday May 5, in Lagos.

IT is pertinent to ask where ordinary Nigerians who have no millions kept away as egg nests and have nowhere to go but live out the nightmare that being a citizen seems to have become in today’s Nigeria – it is indeed important to ask if such Nigerians have been considered in the struggle that has led to the failure or refusal of President Muhammadu Buhari to give assent to the budget sent to him by the National Assembly several weeks ago. It is useless now denying there is a tug of war currently going on between the President and the leaders of the National Assembly. It is a war of will that both parties involved in have been shy to take into the public arena. They would rather do their battle indirectly, through proxies or by making oblique remarks that are neither here nor there.