ON Saturday, December 24, 2016, President and Commander in Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, Muhammadu Buhari, announced that “finally”, the Boko Haram insurgency had been crushed following the invasion, by our gallant troops, of “Camp Zero”, the final bastion of the evil Islamist group, Boko Haram, in Sambisa Forest.

THE outgoing year 2016 has been unique in several ways. It was principally the year of inconclusive elections; when re-run polls brought forward from the previous year could not be concluded in single shots. The harder they tried, the more the elections became hanging.

As part of efforts to reduce the incidence of communicable and non-communicable diseases, as well as Neglected Tropical Diseases in Nigeria, experts have called for increased access of Nigerians to drugs and other treatment facilities to tackle the rising incidence illnesses in the country.

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has released N2 billion to immediate past political office holders in all the 21 local government areas of the state as part payment of their salaries and other benefits owed them by former governor, Idris Wada.

ADO-Ekiti-No fewer than 206 students of secondary schools, undergraduates in tertiary institutions and students of the Nigerian Law School went home with cheques for their scholarship from legal icon, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN).

ITEL Mobile, a technology company has donated school bags, pens and maths-sets to 250 children of ABQ and Adewura Nursery and Primary Schools located at slum area in Ajegunle, Lagos.

The Federal Government has warned against hospitals detaining patients who cannot pay their medical bills, even as it said it would do everything possible to reduce reliance by public officials on foreign hospitals for healthcare services in 2017.

A PROFESSOR of Renewable Energy (Mechanical Engineering) at the Osun State University, Osogbo, Prof. Oguntola Jelil Alamu has tasked the Nigerian government on the need to engage in massive oil crops plantation dedicated primarily for biofuel use.

An Oredo Magistrate’s Court in Benin, yesterday, ordered the remand of two men, Paul Frank, 31, and Ejimofor Christian, 22, over alleged conspiracy, unlawful carnal knowledge and stealing.

LAGOS—Three children of the same parents, yesterday, died 24 hours after they suffered severe burns from the fire incident that engulfed their apartment in Ikotun Egbe area of Lagos.

AND although the American  Constitution, as Abraham Lincoln posited “contained no prohibition of secession or enforcement language to preserve the Union”, it did –like all other democratic constitutions- specify an oath of office mandating the President “to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution”.

CLIFFORD Ifebuene, Director, Fliplearn; Jordan Belmonty, Education Programmes Manager, Microsoft Nigeria, as well as 150 educators in the public and private sector, have unanimously agreed that lack of technology adaptation is the bane of education in Nigeria.

Yenagoa—Property worth millions of naira were, yesterday, destroyed when fire gutted a section of a filling station at Akenfa, a suburb of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital.

The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, in Delta State, said, yesterday, that four persons died during the Yuletide in an auto crash.

OLEH—GUNMEN, Tuesday, stormed the official residence of the Anglican Bishop of the Oleh Diocese, Delta State, Rt. Rev. John Aruakpor, making away with an undisclosed sum of money and valuables.