DELTA is to open direct access to Melbourne, Australia, following an announcement by joint venture partner Virgin Australia of plans to launch nonstop service between Melbourne and Los Angeles in 2017.

THE Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP), the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), has advised the Minister of State, Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika to carry out due security diligence on those to run concessioned airports . The group gave the advise in a statement jointly signed by the National Chairman, Comrade Rasaki Ope and the Administrative Secretary, Comrade Emeka Njoku and made available to aviation reporters.

Super Eagles Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr, has released a list of 23 players invited for next month’s 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying Match day 1 clash between the Super Eagles and Zambia’s Chipolopolo in Ndola.

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Nigeria has urged leaders at all levels of governance to shun corrupt tendencies and take appropriate measures to ensure food sufficiency.

The Vice President 1 of Nasrul-lahi-l-Fatih society, Alhaji Muhammed Mejinyawa has said the NASFAT will assist the government to preach the change agenda of the government, adding that NAFAT believes in peace and change agenda of the government.

LAGOS— 20 students of various tertiary institutions in Nigeria were, yesterday, given awards of various categories at the 2016 Gani Fawehinmi Annual Scholarship Awards held at the Nigerian Law Publications House, Alausa, Lagos state.

The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday, declared ‘war’ on the Federal Government to press for the unconditional release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and other Biafra agitators detained in various prisons nationwide and in diaspora.

THERE must be some extraordinary milestones in the journey of a people at which point their leaders must periodically pause for deeper reflections with simultaneous exhibition of a modicum of endearing dignity.

Many beggars on Lagos streets feign illness to deceive innocent persons and get alms from them, the Chairman of the Lagos State Taskforce SP Olayinka Egbeyemi, said on Thursday

ABUJA—THE House of Representatives, yesterday, said it was imperative for the Federal Government, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the Ministry of Finance and National Planning to review the nation’s fiscal policy, if they were desirous of getting Nigeria out of the current economic recession.

POPULAR pop highlife singer and “oruka” crooner, sunny neji who is currently vying for the president of the Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria, PMAN, has promised a better deal for nigerian musicians.

As treatment for cancer remains herculean in the country, children living with cancer and their families, have urged the Federal Government to subsidise cancer treatment for children as obtained in other parts of the world.

AS the Global Fund donors pledged nearly $13 billion for the next three years to help end epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria for good, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Mr. Bill Gates has urged the world to be committed to removing human rights barriers to health so that the most vulnerable people can access the health services they need.

The All Progressives Congress APC Thursday in Abuja jettisoned the recommendations of its Appeal Committee on the conduct of the Primary Election for the Ondo State Gubernatorial election, and submitted name of the winner of the election, Rotimi Akeredolu to the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC.

“Based on the ongoing investigation, Yahoo believes that information associated with at least 500 million user accounts was stolen,” a statement from the US Internet giant. “Yahoo is working closely with law enforcement on this matter.”