IN 2014, Cuba officially became the first country in the world to eliminate the transmission of HIV and syphilis from mother to child. Cuba has gone down in history as the first in the world to be validated by the World Health Organization, WHO, for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis.

Feelers from last week’s foreign investment road-show by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) indicated that Nigeria’s finances and the economy as a whole may be headed to its worst external sector positions.

THE embattled former chairman of House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin, yesterday, gave a startling revelation on how 10 standing committees allegedly inserted constituency projects worth N284 billion into the 2016 budget without the knowledge of their members.

Thirty one years after his administration was toppled in a military coup, President Muhammadu Buhari has finally opened up on why he was sacked.

I know I get on well with my boyfriend’s family. We’ve been an item for a few years now, but at a recent party, his dad tried to kiss me after giving me a playful smack on the bum. We’d all had too much to drink but I told my boyfriend about it right away. In the morning, I didn’t make an issue of it as it looked as if both father and son had forgotten an about the incident.

LAGOS—Gunmen have kidnapped a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, branch in Isawo, Ikorodu, Lagos.

Abuja — As investigation into the re-opened, unresolved murder of former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, continues, the Special Investigative Team set up by the Inspector General of Police, IGP, to probe the matter is said to be working on unravelling some mystery financiers who provided large sums of cash for the operation to kill the ex-chief law officer.

ABUJA— DEPUTY President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, weekend, said former President Goodluck Jonathan frustrated efforts to separate office of the Attorney-General of the Federation from that of Minister of Justice by refusing to assent to the amendment that would have brought it about.

Controversial Enugu-based Catholic Priest,Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, on Sunday, during his homily at Adoration Ministry,Emene, Enugu, slammed former President Goodluck Jonathan, accusing him of having ran a wasteful government which plunged the nation into its present economic recession.

LAGOS — Investors in the stock market appeared to have burnt their fingers with the bullish sentiment spurred by the flexible foreign exchange regime as a full reversal of the market gains came last weekend with a total loss of N749 billion.