THE United Nations Development Programme, UNDP, in collaboration with Delta State Government, have given a lifeline to 62 vulnerable persons in Bomadi Local Government Area with the provision of walking aids and education materials.

Operatives of the Nigeria Police Special Unit have arrested 18 suspected vandals, who breake pipelines and siphon petrol and crude oil from distribution points in different parts of the country.

THE House of Representatives has decried the absence of functional radiotherapy machines in the nation’s hospitals and urged the Federal Government to as a matter of urgency, to replace achines in all the federal health institutions were repaired.

A COUNTRY that does not embrace merit in carrying out its affairs will never get out of the starting blocks. The examples are too numerous to mention. In Mao Tse-tung’s China, children were separated from their biological parents to avoid issues related to sentiments, where is China today? At the top.

NIGERIAN Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, said it is targeting a six-month timeline for contracting cycle. Executive Secretary of the Board, Simbi Wabote, said such strict timeline is part of new measures to shorten the protracted contracting cycle in the oil and gas industry and revitalize the implementation of Nigerian Content. Prior to this, contracting cycle had elongated between two to four years, causing huge frustration amongst investors in the sector.