Oando Foundation, OF, in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, Emergency Crisis Response, ECR, has commenced an initiative aimed at taking 60,000 internally displaced out-of-school children in Northern Nigeria from informal to formal/mainstream education institutions by 2018.

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has assured of adequate security of lives and properties in the state to boost investors’ confidence and see the state as a safe commercial haven to open the economic space to generate jobs.

THERE are fears of possible outbreak of epidemic as over 28,000 families of 2,211 household of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, from surrounding villages of Bama and Banki border town with Cameroon Republic defecate openly due to lack of toilet facilities at the General Hospital Bama.

Imo State Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, has inaugurated a 135-member Elders Advisory Council, with five of the elders chosen from each of the 27 local council areas of the state.

The Chairman of Livestock Feeds Plc, Mr. Larry Ettah, has said that operations of the feed milling industry was badly affected by the 40 per cent hike in the prices of major raw materials – maize and soya bean meal – required in the industry.