The Federal Government has said that its affordable housing schemes will soon transform thousands of Nigerians from being tenants to proud owners of houses and plots of land.

In a bid to entrench the values of accountability, integrity and inculcate positive attitudinal change in Nigerians, the Federal Government is set to launch the “Change Begins With Me’’ campaign.

THIS is election season in Edo State and it turns out that the so-called progressives in attempting to gain advantage over the PDP, have chosen to stand history and truth on their heads. The situation is not helped by a fawning and uncritical media. It is heavily bought off to play vile megaphone roles. Thus the media has jettisoned its mandatory role of being the information choice, the critical voice and a discerning institution as a neutral umpire and a truth teller.

IN view of the current economic condition of the country, stakeholders in the Maritime industry have called on the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, to halt charging tariffs in foreign currencies saying it is having adverse effects on the industry and could lead to further retrenchment in the industry.

HELL was practically let loose when students of 15-year-old Fidei Polytechnic Gboko went on rampage recently following squabbles over tuition. The institution was more or less turned into a scene of devastation as the students went as far as venting their anger on the ancient and usually serene Gboko town.

Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said an agreement to freeze oil production levels could be worked out at the forthcoming meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Algeria.

Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has said that the state government is to float an airline, to be called “Cally Air,” as part of its tourism investment drive.

Gabon’s justice minister resigned on Monday, in the first high-level defection after days of violence following incumbent Ali Bongo’s disputed re-election, as the opposition leader called for a general strike to “topple the tyrant”

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Southeast, has called on the five governors from the zone, to take more pragmatic steps in ensuring that the reported killings by herdsmen, come to an end.

THE PDP Governorship Candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has said that if Governor Adams Oshiomhole had listened to the advice of engineers, the flood ravaging many parts of Ugbowo axis along the Benin-Ore Expressway would have been avoided.

The Federal Government has established Victims of Trafficking Trust Fund, where assets and proceeds seized from convicted traffickers would be kept for victims’ rehabilitation.

Ahmed Salkida, one of the three people declared wanted by the Nigerian Army for allegedly aiding the release of a Boko Haram video showcasing the missing Chibok girls, arrived the country last night.

IN a bid to battle the rising crime rate in the State, Abia Police Command yesterday, paraded 21 suspected criminals for various criminal activities, including kidnapping, armed robbery and car snatching.

The Enugu State government has approved the award of contracts for 35 capital projects comprising the construction of roads, bridges, schools and boreholes across the 17 local government areas of the state.

THE Federal government, Monday commissioned a N350 million ultra-modern South East Virology Centre in Abakaliki with a pledge to partner the Ebonyi State government in an effort to instil effective management in the running of the Health facility.