Despite the rising cost of healthcare services in the country, indications emerged yesterday that only four percent of Nigerians have been covered by the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, since its inception in 2005.

Kaduna State House of Assembly, yesterday, passed the 2017 Appropriation Bill, three weeks earlier than it did last year.

AS the current economic recession in the country bites harder, Delta State Government, yesterday said it had stopped the 25 percent mobilisation fee to contractors for government contracts.

Barely a month after the south east senators took a list of demands to President Muhammadu Buhari, seeking a face-lift on the infrastructural condition of the zone, the traditional rulers from the area have also met with the president on the welfare of the people of the place.

As the February 1, 2017, deadline placed by the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, on speed limiters draws nearer, transporters, private and public vehicle owners have besieged Purple Global Services & Technologies Africa, the company which specializes in installing the device in vehicles.

Bayelsa State governor, Seriake Dickson, has pledged the government’s commitment to inject funds for the infrastructural and manpower development of the state-owned Niger Delta University, NDU, to attract reputable lecturers and students to the institution.

If you disclose your Sadaqat (almsgiving), it is well: but if you conceal them and give them to the poor, that is better for you. (Allah) will expiate you some of your sins.”

It is a book of guidance, a total way of life and a code of conduct which leaves no stone unturned, when it comes to any facet of jurisprudence and any type of knowledge- conventional or Islamic.

THERE are millions of widows in our society, yet their problems are often ignored. Thankfully Mrs. Rachel Umahi is trying to break the silence of these suffering women in order to support them to play active roles in building their families and communities.

Against all odds, the Peugeot 301 emerged the car of the year in Nigeria in 2016.Peugeot 301, assembled in Kaduna by PAN Nigeria Limited, emerged the winner in a contest with Toyota Corolla and Nissan Almera. The 301 polled the majority vote in both the on-line contest and the voting by Auto journalists, for the award that was organised by Nigeria Auto Journalists Association at the prestigious Eko Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.

A human right activist Mr Femi Falana, SAN, yesterday said that cultural and religious institutions, in the country especially churches and mosques, are the greatest promoters of sexual and domestic violence.

Telecommunications operators yesterday said they were disappointed with the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC over the manner it suspended the increment notice on data services less than 24 hours before deadline.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has formally rejected the decision of its embattled National Legal Adviser and former Commissioner for Environment in Lagos State, Dr. Muiz Banire, SAN, to step aside, pending the outcome of an investigation on him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

Members of Egbema and Gbaramatu Communities Development Foundation, EGCDF, have urged the Federal Government and oil servicing companies in the Niger Delta to divert money being used for security and repairs of pipelines for development of the region, to end insecurity, pipeline vandalism and bombings in the region.

The Ministry of Petroleum Resources, yesterday, disclosed that the decision of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, to exempt Nigeria from the oil output cut deal was as a result of strategic negotiations and the worrying incidences of vandalisation of the country’s petroleum installations.