Ibadan—The Federal Government, yesterday, promised to upgrade no fewer than 10,000 primary health care centres across the country to enable masses have undeterred access to health services.

More trouble is hitting the camp of the U-23 national football team with the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF joining in distracting the team with orders allegedly coming from the Secretary General, Dr Mohammed Sanusi.

ABEOKUTA—Activities at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta were, yesterday, paralysed as members of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) embarked on an indefinite strike over alleged non-implementation of the skipping of Consolidated Medical Salary Scale (CONMESS) for medical doctors.

A Chieftain of the APC in Edo State, Mr Lawrence Orkah, has said that the governorship candidate of the party, Mr Godwin Obaseki’s has a better programme for the poor than Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the PDP.

Governoship candidate of the APC, Mr Godwin Obaseki, yesterday disclosed that the influence of his grandmother shaped his life as a technocrat.

Legal luminaries are at it again; as always, adumbrating about everything that is the subject of law or of the due process of law. And now the celebrated schism is over some ‘strange’ legislative phenomenon called ‘budget padding’.

NIGERIAN Human rights activist, Barrister Natasha Akpoti, has said that Ajaokuta and Itakpe were held down by the management of Global Infrastructure Nigeria Limited, GINL, and Global Steel Holding Limited, GSHL for eight years without any payment for economic damages.

Has slave trade ever been really abolished? Many would give an emphatic ‘NO’ as their answer to this question.

WARRI—THE Okah brothers, Henry and Charles, both leaders of Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, undergoing trials in South Africa and Nigerian courts respectively, have vowed to institute legal actions against former President Goodluck Jonathan over his purported scornful and damaging statements regarding them.

A cleric, Pastor Toyin Praise, says he has discovered a new concept in Mathematics which he terms Alphabetic Mathematics.

ABUJA—THE Federal Government, yesterday, said the newly-deployed 37 mines officers attached to states and Federal Capital Territory, FCT, would be held responsible for future diversion of explosives to unauthorised persons.

Senator David Umaru representing Niger East Senatorial District and Chairman, Senate Committee on Judiciary and Human Rights has given me reasons to be suspicious of his nationality. I am also at a loss how he made it into the Senate? These sentiments are not meant to cast aspersions on the person of this Niger politician but to interrogate what was behind his recent past time of sowing discord when the occasion calls for concerted national efforts.

ABUJA—Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State yesterday described as criminal non-payment of salary by some state governments.

Bayelsa State governor, Mr Seriake Dickson, has said that his administration will work with security operatives to smoke out the killers of the three soldiers in Nembe from their hideout and bring them to justice. Governor Dickson, on a live radio interview in Yenagoa, said that the government would not condone a situation where the state will be used as a launching pad for violence and criminal activities.

The police Special Fraud Unit, SFU, yesterday, arraigned the Balogun of Epe, Chief Olajide Ikuforiji, before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos over allegation of forgery.