As Nigeria battles with the ongoing Lassa fever outbreak, the Federal Government has been advised to provide Lassa rapid test kits to detect the disease on the spot.

Mr. Nico Tyabji, is the Climatescope Africa Coordinator, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, BNEF. Before joining BNEF in 2011, he led research on mitigation strategies at the Global Network for Climate Solutions based at Columbia’s Earth Institute, and has previously worked for the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva. In this online interview with Clara Nwachukwu, he insists there is now a big opportunity for Nigeria to embrace the clean energy revolution, while stressing the need for more investments in infrastructure to fast track socio-economic development in Nigeria. Excerpts:

Dr Oluwayomi David Atte was at one time Commissioner for Education and also Sole Administrator of the State Water Corporation in the old Kwara State. The former lecturer and Takete Ide, Kogi State born community development expert in this interview speaks on the ongoing transition process in the state.

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mr. Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah as the new Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.

AHEAD of the July 2016 governorship election in Edo State, three of the five governorship aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have pledged to support who ever among them wins the party’s governorship primaries to ensure that the party takes over the reins of government in the state.