In advocating a female deputy governorship candidate in Edo State and more participation of women in politics, the International Republican Institute has partnered with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, women in the state in a sensitization forum.

TWO weeks after the commemoration of Biafra Anniversary Day by members of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, ten members of the group were, Monday, arrested in Cross River State.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, denied any wrongdoing over its failure to remit about $13.294 billion to the Federation account over a nine-year period, stating that the funds were utilized legally in running its operations, while the balance of the funds had been transferred to the Central Bank of Nigeria

Hundreds of Immigration recruits, yesterday, locked down the Ministry of Interior, Abuja, accusing the Federal Government of playing politics with their employment.

The Federal Government, yesterday, gave reasons why the detained leader of the Shi’ite Islamic sect, Sheikh Ibraheem el-Zakzaky, will not be released from detention, saying it was keeping him to stave off circumstances that made Boko Haram sect turn violent in 2009.

Lagos State Government has said that it will collaborate with stakeholders, through Public Private Participation initiative for the implementation of N24 billion Employment Trust Fund, ETF, aimed at providing soft loans for indigent entrepreneurs in the state.

IN Abia, the State chairman of Nigerian Union of Pensioners [NUP], Sir Chukwuma Ndubuisi Udensi said the pensioners are suffering. With a backlog of arrears ranging between 8 to 19 months, depending on ministries and parastatals involved, and an outstanding gratuity for 16 years, pensioners in Abia State are indeed going through painful endurance.

THE motto of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners, NUP, is “Rest is sweet after labour”. This is however, far from reality. The refrain from Nigerian pensioners is that they are constantly treated like outcasts instead of the senior citizens they rightly are. Stories abound about how some pensioners slump at the venue of verification exercises organized periodically by the state government. It was equally gathered that many pensioners have died without getting either their gratuities or pensions or both.

Within just two weeks, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC has scooped two top awards in two separate regions, for flawless regulatory practices. The first was at the Africa Information Technology and Telecom Awards in Ghana when the Regulator clinched the 2016 “Africa Telecom Regulator of the Year Award”

THE 2016 IT professionals Assembly of the Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria, CPN held in Abuja, was another venue for IT practitioners in Nigeria to stoutly claim that local talents may never get appreciated until both public and private sector reduced dependency of foreign products.

THE result of the Economist unit report on Africa’s renewable energy goals, sponsored by mobile telecommunications Infrastructure Company, IHS Towers, has asked the continent to back down its high horse of ambitious energy targets and make some reasonable investments. Meanwhile, the report also admitted that Africa has the potentials to deliver a renewable power revolution that can replicate the wonderful growth being experienced in the telecommunications sector.

Today we are going to be looking at some things we can do to improve monthly menstrual periods. In this article, I will be giving a few tips on what you can do to improve scanty periods. The first tip is exercise. If you are somebody who’s period is scanty or has different colours (not bright red), it could be that the blood isn’t flowing to the uterus the way it should. Just walking a few times a week especially before your period starts, you might find out that the circulation will help your blood to flow more easily.

APC governorship Barrister Casely Omon- Irabor has accused the national leadership of having a secret plan to manipulate the primary to favour the aspirant allegedly being backed by the outgoing governor.

Dr. Pius Odubu has appealed to the leadership of the party to urgently step into stop the alleged buying of Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) from delegates which he said was aimed at derailing a free and fair contest.

Every Nigerian knows just how hard it is to continue to believe in Nigeria: the cost to one’s sanity, the emotional toll for lovers of Nigeria debating with non-believers, fighting for the right to continue to believe. When you believe in the right thing being done, you’re labelled a fool as the cynics, the people with the money to subvert progress, accept no challengers of the status quo.