Four years after the explosion that rocked a Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, facility off the Atlantic coast of Koluama in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, the host communities have accused the oil giant of neglect.

The re-run election ordered by the Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu for Anambra Central senatorial district to be conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, will hold on March 5.

Lagos—A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, re-affirmed the order it made restraining Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, from implementing any upward review of electricity tariff (hike), pending the hearing and final determination of the suit filed by a lawyer and rights activist, Toluwani Adebiyi, over the issue.

In a move to institutionalise and strengthen the industrialisation of Nigeria by being on the vanguard of the true change in political will amidst the cloudy future of Nigeria’s major export, crude oil which has continued to plummet at an impactful low record, the common sense advocate, Senator Ben Murray Bruce has undoubtedly brake different frontiers by not just postulating but walking the talk to revitalise Nigeria’s economy through the made-in-Nigeria crusade.

Lagos—The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, yesterday cancelled two centres in the ongoing matriculation examination following complaints of poor facilities provided by the centres’ administrators in Lagos.

A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has ordered two leading Nigeria banks (names withheld) to show why they should not be compelled to pay the entitlements of five expelled Lagos State University (LASU) dons.

Chairman Heirs Holding, Mr Tony Elumelu, yesterday, called for a sustainable investment in the agriculture and energy sector for economic transformation across the continent, saying that charity and aid have failed Africa.

Epileptic power supply, over billing through estimated bills and non provision of prepaid metres for electricity consumers featured as the front burners during a town hall meeting convened by the management of Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC.

With one child diagnosed of cancer, every three minutes, experts have called for a cancer registry for children living with cancer in Nigeria even as they expressed concern over the denial attitude of Nigerians about the incidence. Speaking during the 2015 Bald Challenge Funfair of the Children Living with Cancer Foundation, CLWCF, recently in Lagos, Executive Director, Dr Nneka Nwaobbi, said the country is doing badly as children are dying because of the poor state of the health care system, coupled with denial of parents as well as lack of commitment to support of childhood cancer.

With the rising incidences of kidney diseases among Nigerians, an expert has warned against unnecessary use of pain killers, consumption of fatty foods and high intake of salt. A Senior Consultant Nephrologist at the Transplant Institutes, Apollo Hospitals, India, Prof. Devendra Pumar Agarwal who was a guest lecturer at a 2-Day Continuing Medical Education, CME, organised for Nigerian doctors in Lagos by Apollo Hospitals, stressed the need for people to focus more on prevention of kidney disease than treatment and management of the disorder.