THERE are many ways in which government can make progress without necessarily spending humongous sums on consultants or other categories of contractors. Let us start with hospitals. In the typical Nigerian hospital, you can get to the Accident and Emergency,

Chairman Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debt, Senator Shehu Sani has warned all tiers of government to be weary and thread slowly in rushing to obtain loans from foreign and local Agencies in order to be free from economic strangulation.

ALUU- PARAMOUNT ruler of Omuda, in Ikwerre Local Government Area, Rivers State, Chief Harry Okparaibea, said the butcher of 23 persons, last week, by invading cultists in Omuda, Umuechi, Umuike, Umuahunwo and other Aluu communities was a taboo. Okpraibea, who spoke to Niger Delta Voice, said the community forbids shedding of blood, especially that of the innocent, and as tradition demands, the people would have to appease the gods of the land.

Authorities of Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, has said it would soon commence the distribution of about 200,000 pre-paid meters to electricity consumers in the South East zone.

The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu and two other pro-Biafra agitators, David Nwawusi and Benjamin Madubugwu, have dragged the judge handling their trial, Justice John Tsoho, before the National Judicial Council, NJC.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday observed the breaking of Ramadan fast with Service Chiefs (Military, Intelligence services and Police) and hosted the Outgoing Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

UYO — APPROXIMATELY 7,000 youths of Akwa-Ibom State are reportedly in a hot scramble for only 1,000 placements in a tax consultancy firm engaged by the state government. Managing Director of Romflex Nigeria Limited, Mr. Eyo Bassey, disclosed this in Uyo, while addressing the Appropriation and Finance Committee of the state House of Assembly on the operations of his tax consultancy firm, recently hired by the state government.

People with at least three years of higher education are at greater risk for cancerous brain tumours than those with no more than nine years of schooling, perplexed researchers said Tuesday.

By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—For having the effrontery to retaliate when her husband slapped her, the woman received the second slap that sent her to the great beyond. But the 36-year husband, Onyekachi Anele, is currently cooling his heels in the custody of Imo State Police Command. Already, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Taiwo Lakanu, […]

The initial plan by a Nigerian pilot, Captain Ademilola Odujinrin to commence first Africa Solo flight round the world in a specially configured single Cirrus aircraft from Lagos, Nigeria has now been changed. The flight will now take off from Washington DC in the United States of America on Thursday 23rd June 2016 and can be tracked live on www.transcend.ng.