The Institute of Human Virology, IHVN, and Access Bank Plc yesterday unveiled plans to establish a N5 billion world class Medical Research Centre that will research into infectious diseases and non infectious diseases on the Nigerian soil.

I‘m in my mid-twenties and have a young son. I’ve been with my boyfriend since our university days, but I don’t love him any more. I only stay in the relationship because of this child. Around the time I became pregnant, I’d been seeing someone else for eight weeks but broke off. the affair because I thought the kid was my boyfriend’s. Unfortunately, the boy looks nothing like him – he looks like the boy I had a fling with. I don’t want to continue to lie to my boyfriend about my son, it doesn’t feel right. But how am I going to tell my boyfriend what I’v”e done? People have told me not to tell him but I can’t. I don’t want to have to lie to my son or to anyone. It’s not fair.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, Thursday evening, met with the Comrade Ayuba Wabba-led faction of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, calling on the Labour leaders to suspend the strike against the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government’s hike in the pump price of petrol, which saw the essential commodity hiked from N86.50 to N145 per litre.

IN this article, I examine a critical aspect of the controversy that surrounded the delay in the passage of the 2016 Budget because of the importance it has for future budgetary processes.
The issue of interest here is: at the backdrop of Ministers who disowned aspects of the 2016 Budget which emanated from their various Ministries, could there be a limit to the power of the National Assembly in making changes to the annual budgetary estimates prepared by the Executive and placed before the National Assembly for passage?

The leadership of the Senate led by Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Thursday waded into the ongoing disagreement between the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Federal Government over the recent deregulation of fuel price in the country.

    The newly constructed and commissioned Origanrigan Primary Healthcare Centre in Lekki LCDA

Officials of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, sealed off a property allegedly belonging to Senior Special Assistant on Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, to Bayelsa State Governor, Mr Apere Embelakp, in Yenagoa.

THE House of Representatives has considered and adopted a report on a bill to establish the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, Delta State. The bill which transited from the 7th House to the 8th finally saw daylight in the Yakubu Dogara led 8th House.

THE Senate, yesterday, paid tribute to his Royal Majesty Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Erediauwa, the Oba of Benin on his demise, just as it observed a one minute silence in his honour.

CHAIRMAN of Advocacy Committee against Oil Facility Vandalism and Deputy Governor of Delta State, Mr. Kingsley Otuaro, has appealed to youths of Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South-West Local Government Area of the state to rise up and secure oil facilities in their domain, whether or not they were part of Niger Delta Avengers, the militant group responsible for the renewed attacks on oil facilities in the Niger Delta region.

-The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh almost slumped on his way to the dock on Thursday, a situation that forced Justice Okon Abang to adjourn his trial till May 23.

Nigeria’s electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Thursday, said that aside from the National Convention of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) holding in Port Harcourt on Saturday, May 21, 2016, it is unaware of another convention of the party.

English Premier League whizz kids Kelechi Iheanacho and Alex Iwobi hope for game time when Nigeria play two friendlies in Europe this month while continuing with coaching musical chairs.

Sacked Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, (NIS), Martin Kure Abeshi, Thursday finally handed over to a new Acting CG NIS, Muhammed Babandede, a deputy comptroller general, at a service’s headquarters in Abuja.

The National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has once again bared his mind on the controversy over the increase in the price of petrol and says it marks a positive turning point for the Nigerian economy.