lagos—THE Lagos State Government yesterday said it had recorded a drop from its Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV, prevalence rate from 5.1 in 2013 to 4.1, even as it noted that about 47,393 persons living with the virus were receiving free anti–retroviral drugs.

The national chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has directed the deputy national chairman, South, Engr. Segun Oni to wade into the crisis between Governor Adams Oshiomhole and his deputy, Dr. Pius Odubu.

EMBATTLED Chairman of the Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Engr. Adebayo Dayo, has denounced media reports that he and the State Secretary of the party, Alhaji Semiu Sodipo have been suspended from office.

Nigeria yesterday said the employment of an Indian coach will boost its performance at this month’s World Cricket League Division 5 to be hosted by the United Kingdom.

ABEOKUTA—Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun’s convoy was caught in a severe gridlock like every other motorists plying the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway yesterday morning caused by an accident that claimed the lives of three persons.

The Nigeria Professional Football League will soon witness the introduction of a new club in its ranks, Anambra state based Osisioma FC, Sports Vanguard has gathered.

lagos—Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo of an Ikeja High Court, yesterday granted a N10 million bail to the two engineers who supervised the construction of the collapsed six-storey guest house owned by the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN.

How can something so sweet cause so much pain? Those were the ominous words a patient said to me some years ago in the small town of Moultrie in the deep south of the state of Georgia. You might want to ponder on this as you chop through that bowl of starch-full rice and wash it own with the 12 plus cubes of sugar in your choice of “mineral”. Mineral? What a term for a bottle of sugar! The rate we are seeing diabetes increase in Nigeria is quite alarming.

OSOGBO—The Obafemi Awolowo Teaching Hospital Complex, OAUTH, has performed a medical feat when a team of consultants successfully carried out operation on six children with congenital heart disease (hole in the heart.)

LAGOS—THE Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN, yesterday expressed shock over the statement credited to Dr. Doyin Okupe, former Special Adviser to erstwhile President Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, that governors should sack thousands of their workers to cope with the dwindling revenues. NLC and ASCSN urged the governors not to listen to Okupe’s satanic verses

As part of efforts to adequately prepare for the 2016 Rio Olympics, the Nigeria Basket Ball Federation (NBBF) has released the list of 27 platers invited to camp ahead of the championship.

AS the current administration winds down in Edo state, the people are beside themselves, singing “thank you” to the governor, Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, for a job well done. For obvious reasons, the only exception are members of the opposition who seem to see nothing good in all the amazing developing witnessed across every nook and cranny since its inception in 2009.

Ogun State Police have rescued the former Minister of State for Education, Senator Iyabo Anisulowo, who was abducted by armed men seven days after she was kidnapped at Sawonjo in Yewa North Llocal Government Area.

To ensure food safety, the State government said plans are underway to increase the aggregate food supply of the State from less than 15 percent to 25 percent within the next four years through various projects and programmes.

NATIONAL leadership of Labour Party, LP, has suspended its 2015 Delta State governorship candidate, Chief Great Ogboru, and 12 others for alleged anti- party activity, saying that the party in Delta State under Chief Tony Ezeagwu, was intact and has no plan to merge with All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state.