The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA has concluded plans to use electronic voting in its forthcoming general elections slated for July. The NBA president, Mr Augustine Alegeh, SAN, reaffirmed this at the just concluded National Executive Council, NEC meeting held in Benin, Edo State capital.

MUSIC sensation and Glo brand ambassador, Waje has joined leading cookery personality Chef Eros, and Jamie Oliver, as they recently unveiled food revolution day in Dowen College, Lagos. The event which was launched last month amidst fanfare of celebrities, with live cooking demonstration was aimed at ensuring that children below the ages of 20 are properly fed.“

The long title to the FoI Act states that : “it is an Act to make public records and information more freely available, provide for public access to public records and information, protect public records and information to the extent consistent with the public interest and the protection of personal privacy, protect serving public officers from adverse consequences for disclosing certain kinds of official information without authorization and established procedures for the achievement of those purposes and for related matters.”

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the freezing of the personal account of Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State as unlawful, undemocratic, autocratic, oppressive, draconian and has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes to unfreeze the accounts.

Former Lagos State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Mr. Olutoyin Ayinde yesterday disclosed that the distance between the collapsed guest house in Synagogue church and the aircraft that flew around that direction on the fateful day was like the height of four NITEL buildings put together.

Barely 20 days after the judgment of an Osogbo High Court allowing Muslim female students in the state public schools to wear Hijab, the state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN yesterday filed a stay of execution on the June 3 judgement.

OHANAEZE Ndigbo Youth Council, OYC, has warned Niger Delta Avengers against threat to bomb Abia State, saying that there is no IPOB/MASSOB member being detained in the State as alleged by the Avengers.

FOLLOWING persistent poor power supply in Calabar, the Cross River State capital and environs, the state government has procured 180 transformers for distribution to various parts of the capital to enhance power distribution.

ON June 2, 2016, the Federal Government announced the cancellation of post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) tests instituted by tertiary institutions, mainly universities, in 2007.

A senior U.S. military general, yesterday, said the terrorist group, Boko Haram, had fractured internally.

THE Multi-national Joint Task force for the Lake Chad Basin Commission, comprising troops from Nigeria and its North East neighbours, said yesterday that the firepower of Operation Lafiya Dole had caused massive movement of Boko Haram Terrorists escaping from Sambisa Forest into Northern Borno State border with Niger Republic and Lake Chad Islands.

THE Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has petitioned the National Judicial Commission, NJC, over continued detention of 19 of its members, including a cripple, in prison custody since April, 2007.

Citizens Advocacy Initiative for Accountable Leadership, CAIFAL, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to investigate the N1.3billion realised from the illegal N3,000 paid by prospective National Youth Service Corp, NYSC, members for them to access their postings in the last three years.

WORRIED by the huge sum of money Nigerians spend for cancer treatment abroad, amounting to $100 million, the House of Representatives yesterday passed the Bill for an Act seeking to establish a National Cancer Institute for prevention, treatment and control of cancer in the country to second reading.

The Defence Headquarters is set to retire no fewer than 464 members of the Nigerian Armed Forces who have put in the mandatory 35 years of service, next month.