No fewer than 112million Nigerians now live below poverty level as global poor hits one billion mark. According to the latest poverty report by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, about 112 million Nigerians (representing 67.1 per cent) of the country’s total population of 167million.

The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, said yesterday that Nigeria was able to secure a profound commitment of international investors as a result of the specific requests presented by the Nigerian delegation to the meetings.

AFAHA UBE ITAM – RESIDENTS of UbeItam, Itu Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, host community to Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, Calabar sub-region’s 132 KVA that generates electricity to other parts of the state, are poised for a showdown with the State Government and the company over suspected insensitivity to their predicament since the transformer serving their area broke down about 10 months ago.

IN a bid to encourage Nigerians in diaspora to use official channels to transfer earnings back home, the Central bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday raised the exchange rate for Bureaux De Change (BDC) to N385 per dollar.

The Vice President, Commonwealth Medical Association, Dr. Osahon Enabulele has decried the current state of the country’s health sector, saying that 56 years after, the sector is still struggling to meet the World Health Organisation, WHO, set standards for health.

To mark World Food Day 2016, the United Nations is highlighting the close links between climate change, sustainable agriculture, and food and nutrition security, with the message: “The climate is changing. Food and agriculture must, too.”

Since its formation in 1978, no other body of professionals in Nigeria has been as much of a thorn in the flesh of the Nigerian Government as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The carcass of its more-than-three-decades long “struggles” remains with us today. Not exempting any government, dictatorial or democratic, ASUU has mostly advocated for university autonomy, adequate funding and the general wellbeing of academics. Sadly, successive Nigerian governments have reneged on various agreements reached with the body of lecturers and their institutions.

IT has been sixteen months of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration which translates into exactly one third of a tenure of four years. Buhari therefore has only two-third of his tenure left, but it is yet to dawn on the administration and its supporters that the focus should be on what the government has done over this time, not on what the Jonathan administration did or failed to do.

With recent revolution in research globally, scientists have blamed the Nigeria’s backwardness in research and development on poor funding and lack of political will on the part of government, individuals and corporate organisations.

I HAVE given up on some Lagos folks who can’t understand that this nation,country is founded in iniquity and sustained by injustice.We have been locked in this argument over the years on whether Lagos should be pleading for some special status in a land of systemic inequality or press for what is due to her in a properly federated Nigeria.