ABEOKUTA—The Nigeria’s first lady and wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, has appealed to governments both at local and state levels in the country as well as stakeholders to ensure availability and accessibility to basic and effective health care services to every Nigerian.

LAGOS — Organised Labour has called on the Federal Government to ensure that no less than 40 percent of the N6.6 trillion national budget was spent on made-in-Nigeria goods, saying it would stabilise factories and create more jobs for the people.

ABUJA — The Federal Government has approved the reconstitution of implementation committee on Steve Oronsaye report and the White Paper on restructuring and rationalisation of agencies, parastatals and commissions.

Petroleum energy experts have said the reduction of the 2016 budget by as much as N17 billion is no big deal as long as the budget is passed to stimulate economic activities.

Chelsea midfielder, John Obi Mikel, has been announced as the new captain of the Super Eagles.

There seems to be no end to allegations of corrupt practices permeated by the embattled former National Security Adviser, NSA to former president Goodluck Jonathan, Col. Sambo Dasuki, retired, as presidential committee set up to probe contracts awarded by his office from 2011 to 2015 has indicted more than 300 companies.

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, dubbed Rivers State as Nigeria’s most deadly state, even as he offered profuse apologies for the ill-tempered elections conducted under his watch in Kogi, Bayelsa and Rivers states.

LAGOS — As if to call the bluff of President Muhammadu Buhari’s pronouncement to generate 10,000 megawatts, MW, by 2019, output from the generating plants dropped to as low as 2,841MW by mid-day, yesterday.

Coach Samson Siasia will look to the inventiveness of the duo of Victor Moses and Moses Simon to unlock the defence of Egypt in today’s 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying game in Kaduna.

Foreign investors withdrew a total of N31.84 billion from the country last month as they continue to sell their interest in the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE.

Nigeria’s state legislative houses have severally failed the test of democratic reasonableness having repeatedly proved to be tools of state governors against the very principles of separation of power

EDO State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described as unconstitutional and illegal the alleged extension of tenure of local government council chairmen in the state by the state government.

ABUJA — Former Director of Finance and Accounts at the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, Air Commodore Salisu Abdullahi Yushau (retd), yesterday, revealed before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, that all past Air Chief Marshals, diverted N558.2 million monthly from funds meant for the payment of salaries of Nigerian Air Force officials.

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, slated April 8 for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to respond to an application by the embattled National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, asking Justice Okon Abang to hands-off his trial.

THE Anambra State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, has commenced the distribution of relief materials worth about N20 million to the victims of last year’s minor flood disaster that affected some parts of the state.