President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday subscribed to an age-long belief that all mortals can fall sick and that he, too, can take ill.

lagos—THE Lagos State Government will today begin restriction of Vehicular movement in and Around Ajah roundabout, Eti-Osa Local Government, to commence construction of the Ajah Reinforced Concrete Flyover. Vanguard gathered that the closure of the road at the Ajah roundabout end of the Lekki-Epe Expressroad, would elapse at the completion of the project. It will be constructed by Messrs. Hitech Construction Company Ltd.

Daily Times publisher, Mr. Fidelis Anosike has lauded Vanguard for being Nigeria’s number one online news platform, saying that the newspaper should, however, not lose sight of its heritage as an offshoot of the country’s oldest surviving newspaper, Daily Times.

The mother of a four-year-old boy suspected to have been kidnapped in Olodi Apapa area of Lagos State, has been hospitalised, while no one had contacted them for ransom for his release.

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the military to suspend operations in the Niger Delta for two weeks to create a window for dialogue with militants.

Tragedy struck in Lagos when two ladies drowned at Elegushi Beach, Lekki.

The ladies, Funmi, 24, and Shola, 27, Vanguard learned, were graduates of International Relations from Covenant University, Otta, Ogun State, and were studying for their Masters in International Law and Diplomacy at the University of Lagos, UNILAG.

Releasing the names of persons from whom the Federal Government recovered looted funds and assets may jeopardize ongoing investigations, the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has said.

The Kogi State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has dismissed the petition lodged by erstwhile running mate to late Prince Abubakar Audu, Hon. James Abiodun Faleke.

AN environmental group, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, ERA/FOEN, has given the Federal Government a knock over the recent flag-off the clean-up of Ogoni, Rivers State, saying that apart from the usual fan fair, there was no serious commitment by the government to the exercise.

WIFE of the Ondo State governor, Mrs Oluwakemi Mimiko yesterday called for the recognition of the office of the wives of the President and governors in the country.

Police in Lagos, yesterday, arraigned a 36-year-old woman, Awosoka Abiodun, before a magistrate’s court sitting in Ikeja for allegedly stealing a child.

The banking industry reacted to the economic squeeze by downsizing their staff roll in order to survive, but the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige’s “directive” for banks to suspend such actions forthwith may not be a sustainable response to it.

Operatives of the anti vandal unit of Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, have arrested the alleged leader of the armed gang that bombed the Tebidaba-Brass trunkline penultimate week around Ikienghenbiri community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

The United Nations has warned Federal Government against returning internally displaced persons, IDPs, in the North-East to their homeland, saying the area was not safe.

THE Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, yesterday, said that an amended 2010 Electoral Act would be ready before year end, to address very salient and grey areas, ahead of 2019 presidential election.