THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Kogi State University, Anyigba, KSU, has lamented that no fewer than 50 lecturers have left the institution to the prolonged delay in salaries payment and other problems affecting the staffers of the institution.

ABUJA—Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, said for the country to make meaningful headway in the fight against corruption, the legal profession must be sanitised.

ABUJA—The Centre for World University Rankings, CWUR, has released its 2016 ranking of universities across the world, with no Nigerian varsity making the top 1000.

PORT HARCOURT— GOVERNOR of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, drove fear into kidnappers, cultists and other gangsters in the state recently when he personally led security chiefs to demolish their identified hideouts in Port Harcourt and Obio Akpor local government areas. Within one week, he supervised the demolition of several properties belonging to the criminals and confiscated their landed property, vowing to erect public facilities on them. He stood by as bulldozers leveled the structures. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Folunso Adebanjo and men from other security agencies were with him.

Chairman of the Labour Party, Primary Election Committee, Mr. Samuel Omokaro has disowned Mr. Cyril Odibo as the party flag bearer insisting that the process that led to his emergence was faulty and unacceptable.

NO fewer than 11 persons have been confirmed dead following a violent clash between suspected Fulani Herdsmen and Gbagyi communities in Niger State.

THOUGH natural gas production has steadily increased in recent years in line with domestic supply obligations and the broad road map of the Gas Master Plan (GMP), the recent militant attacks on oil and gas facilities has exposed the fragility of the country’s gas supplies especially to the power sector. In less than three weeks, Nigeria’s power sector lost over N36billion, primarily as a result of gas shortage caused by the recent bombing of pipelines supplying gas to electricity generation plants.

Controversy has trailed the alleged concession or sale of some coal blocks at Enugu Coal Mines in Enugu.

AFTER the conclusion of the Rio 2016 Olympic trials, Athletics Federation of Nigeria is prepared to send selected athletes to their respective homes, if the sports ministry fails to release funds for the final preparations for the Games starting in August.

A 71-year-old man, Bamidele Doherty, and three estate agents, who allegedly collected N2.6 million on the pretext of securing a two-bedroom apartment for a woman, are facing trial at an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court in Lagos.

BAUCHI—A young man, who claimed to have gone to a cemetery to exhume the corpse of his son, was last week arrested by police detectives in Bauchi with the head of a male child wrapped in a cloth.

KADUNA—The leadership tussle over the stool of the General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God Church in Nigeria, between Professor Paul Emeka and Dr. Chidi, exploded into violence in one of its branches in Saminaka, Lere Local Government Area, Kaduna State, about 140 kilometres east of Kaduna metropolis.

MAKURDI—The paramount ruler of Gboko North, Chief Tsegba Gbor, and father of the former Speaker pro tempore of the House of Representatives, Mr. Terngu Tsegba, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Gboko Local Area of Benue State.

AS Maryland Convent Private School, MCPS, celebrates its 50th anniversary, it has reiterated its commitment to nurturing children with high standard of education, yesterday.

Is bedwetting really a child’s fault? Are there often reasons why it happens? A Child Psychiatrist at Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital, Ogbomosho, Oyo State, Dr. Suleiman Babatunde said although bedwetting can be a symptom of underlying disease, a large majority of children who wet the bed have no underlying disease that explains their bedwetting. He said rather, most of the causes could be traced to psychological and emotional trauma. Babatunde, in a chat with Good Health Weekly also identified sexual abuse, Urinary Tract Infections, UTIs, and diabetes in young children as causes of bed wetting.