UMUAHIA – FOUR two days, elder statesmen and prominent leaders from the Southern Nigeria under the umbrella name of Southern Nigeria Peoples Assembly (SNPA) converged on Umuahia, Abia State capital to discuss way forward for the country. The Umuahia meeting was unique as it was an Expanded Elders/Management Committee.

WHEN recently the Department of State Security, DSS, arrested seven very senior judges, including Justice John Okoro, and Justice Sylvester Ngwuta of the Supreme Court, many Nigerians condemned the raid for the manner it was executed and not because they considered the judges above the law.

THE governorship candidate of the Alliance for Democracy AD, Olusola Oke, yesterday, said that his administration would liberate the state from the bondage it has been subjected to.

The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, will today protest the non-implementation of the 2014 National Health Act, NHA, even as it demanded extension of the anti-graft war to the health sector.

THE Ondo Youth Coalition, yesterday, challenged President Muhammadu Buhari, the National Judicial Commission (NJC), the Attorney General of the Federation and the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee to “critically look into the allegations of a faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, against Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court Abuja, over the way the case involving it and some other stakeholders has been handled.

Researchers are hopeful of a cure for HIV after treating the first patient with a promising new treatment that could kill all traces of the virus.

Detectives at the Special Fraud Unit, SFU, have arrested five persons, among who are students of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, for allegedly hacking the accounts of Gold Chance Lotto.

A Magistrate’s Court sitting in Jos, Plateau State, has sentenced a 15-year-old boy to three months in prison for defiling a five-year-old girl.

Scores of labour leaders from across the country yesterday, stormed Owerri to peacefully protest the return of the embattled Medical Director of the Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, Dr. Angela Uwakwem.

So you have decided that you want to have a baby; maybe you just got married or you want another kid or you have been trying for a while with no success. Whatever the reason, please know that being underweight or overweight can make conception more difficult.

THE Senate yesterday called for the reintroduction of toll gates on the nation’s highway, as part of moves to generate revenue for the provision of infrastructure.

The Ethics and Privileges Committee in the House of Representatives, Tuesday, said that former Chairman of Appropriation Committee, Rep. Abdulmumin Jibrin (APC-Kano) would not be paid any entitlements while under suspension.

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