President Muhammadu Buhari has re-affirmed Nigeria’s commitment to the well-being of its children, reminding them that they had fundamental rights to quality and affordable education, good health and other basic necessities of life.

The Joint Military Task Force, JTF, from 3 Battalion Effurun, Delta State invaded Sandfield II community, Warrri, Warri South-West Local Government Area of the state in search of one Mr. Jonathan Oyanwei and his gang over recent bombing of pipeline, kidnapping and illegal bunkering in the Niger Delta region.

MAKURDI—Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, yesterday, disclosed that his country home has been sacked by Fulani mercenaries, who he said had killed over 50 of his kinsmen with over 200 hectares of his rice farm razed. He lamented that the incessant killings and destruction of lives and property in the Benue had created a 25 year retrogression of development in the state.

lagos—THE Centre for International Advanced and Professional Studies, CIAPS, has declared Lagos State as the best performing state just as it called on state governors to improve on projects that aim to impact the lives of people.

Yenagoa—The rescued 14-year-old Ese Oruru gave birth to a baby girl in the early hours of yesterday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. Ese was allegedly abducted in Bayelsa State last August and taken to Kano State by one Yunusa Dahiru, where she converted to lslam and married without her parents’ consent.

ABUJA—Federal government, yesterday, said it was planning to generate more power from coal to end the perennial power outage in the country. The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, disclosed this while flagging-off a 2-week Hands-On training for rural youths and women potters on design, fabrication and installation of locally-made metal and clay-based energy-efficient (Eco-Friendly) in Bwari area Council of the FCT.

MR Adeyemi Sabit Ikuforiji, is a former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, who was at the helm of affairs of the assembly between 2005 and 2015. In this interaction, Ikuforiji speaks on President Muhammadu Buhari’s first year, removal of fuel subsidy, governance in Lagos state and other burning national issues

Immediate past Director-General of Bureau of Public Procurement, BPP, Emeka Eze, told the Senate, yesterday that the number of government projects currently abandoned across the country stood at 19,000.

To underscore the importance the United Nations attaches to children, one of the steps taken was to set aside November 20 of every year as the Universal Children’s Day. It was first marked worldwide in 1954 under the auspices of the UN.

lagos—the Lagos State Government yesterday disclosed that it had commenced training for farmers on pest control, aimed at preventing spread of Tuta absoluta, popularly known as ‘Tomato Ebola’, in the state. This came barely hours after the Federal Government confirmed six states had been hit by the Tomato Ebola.

There was commotion at the Kogi State House of Assembly complex in Lokoja, yesterday, as armed Policemen barred the reinstated Speaker of Kogi State House of Assembly, MomohJimoh Lawal and 14 lawmakers loyal to him from entering the Assembly complex, leading to scuffle between the lawmakers and the security personnel.

Ibadan—Oyo State Police Command, yesterday, paraded some suspects, who specialised in hijacking fuel-laden tankers along Oyo-Ilorin Expressway, Ogbomoso, at gunpoint. One of the suspects, Dauda Akanji, 42, narrated how they operate to newsmen at the Police headquarters at Eleyele, Ibadan, saying they had successfully hijacked two petrol-laden tankers in the past before they were caught by the police last week.

Activities at the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Headquarters in Abuja, were temporary disrupted yesterday when the Anambra state Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, House of Representatives members-elect stormed the commission demanding that they be issued their Certificates of Return.

THE Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, vowed, yesterday, that no hoodlum or group of people will overrun the country or illegally occupy any part of it under his watch as the chief police officer.

AN international organisation, OXFAM, yesterday, said over 330, 000 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, were in danger of epidemic in the North-East region of the country, because of lack of portable water and poor and sanitation.