The Director of Defence Information, Defence Headquarters Brig.-Gen. Rabe Abubakar, says the military will rehabilitate repentant Boko Haram members through its “Operations Safe Corridor’’.

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Babachir Lawal, has said that lawyers and judges are frustrating efforts of the Federal Government to fight corruption and impunity.

The Joint Military Force deployed to protect oil installations in the Niger Delta, Operation Pulo Shield, on Friday said it foiled an attack on Agip’s oilfield and arrested 19 suspected vandals in several operations in May and June 2016.

Former Argentinian football star Diego Maradona on Friday accused FIFA’s former president, Joseph Blatter, of stealing while at the helm of the international football association.

The U.S. government’s climate agency on Friday said earth’s record monthly heat streak has extended to an unprecedented 13 months.

Tens of thousands of Nigeriens who fled a deadly Boko Haram attack are in “great distress”, with many lacking food and healthcare, Niger’s interior minister said during a visit to the displaced Thursday.

Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State has stressed the need to mainstream the delivery of primary health care solutions as key performance indicator in assessing governments and governance.

Two years ago, when Nigeria’s former president Goodluck Jonathan held a ceremony breaking the ground for a new university in the Niger delta, the impoverished region rejoiced.

The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LlIRS) says it has sealed 18 hotels for failing to remit N34.79 million hotel occupancy and consumption tax to the state government.

Search teams on Friday recovered the second flight recorder of an EgyptAir plane from the bottom of the Mediterranean that could prove vital in establishing the cause of the unexplained crash.

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation announced Thursday that no former African leader had met the “very high bar” for one of the world’s richest prizes. The Ibrahim Prize has been awarded just four times in the decade since it was established.

READY for your next baby…. Timing for your next pregnancy is purely up to you but in most cases, you have no control over when it happens. Sometimes, no matter how careful you are or no matter the type of family planning you do, when its time, it’s just time. A lot of women who start having their children late really do not have the luxury of spacing their children too far apart for risk of complications during pregnancies.

AS the incessant abuse of underage girls and women continues unabated in the country, the Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG, Zone 2 Headquarters Onikan Lagos, Bala Abdullahi Hassan, has said that the protection of girls and women is one of the main priorities of the police. Hassan also urged Nigerians to support the police in all ramifications by giving adequate information to the police about suspected perpetrators noting that silence by the victims of molestation will not solve the issues.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has ordered an investigation into the allegation against three House members accused of committing sexual misconduct while on an official visit to Cleveland, Ohio, in the US, for the International Visitor Leadership Programme on good governance which held between April 7 and 13, 2016.

The ugly phenomenon of abandoning children has been a social stigma for ages. As it is rampant in Oyo State, the story is the same across the country. Only God knows what could have happened if not for the quick and timely intervention of some orphanages and motherless homes. Places like Cheshire, Jesus Kids’ Home for Special Children and Ibadan Motherless Babies Home all in Ibadan give maternal affection and care to these innocent but unlucky children.