Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, yesterday, said that the killings of indigenous people of Southern Kaduna by herdsmen had been politicised, saying it is a problem his government inherited from the past government.

A NEW Health Policy that would restructure the building blocks of the nation’s health sector is underway even as plans for the establishment of a Bank of Health is in the pipeline.

IN times of increased problems, people would look at every direction for possible solutions. By mid-1970s, the city of Lagos had become so clumsy. That was when Tai Solarin (1922-1994) was asked to offer a view on how some sanity could be infused into Lagos. Solarin did not hesitate an inch before saying that anyone intent on reclaiming Lagos must enter into an aero-plane flying over Lagos; bomb down the entire city and begin to rearrange it.

President of the Nigerian Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick is to storm the grand finale of the 2016 Julius G. Pondi Peace Cup at the NPA football pitch of Burutu, headquarters of Burutu LGA of Delta State this Friday.

After a hard fought win over Canada in the FIFA U-20 Women World Cup in Papua New Guinea, Nigeria’s Falconets are preparing their minds for a win over Spain to remain in contention for the title.

MINNA—Six persons were killed in an attack by suspected cattle rustlers in Kukoki community, Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger.

By Onozure Dania
Lagos—A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Rickey Tarfa was yesterday re-arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in its amended 27-count charge over alleged falsification of age and offering of gratification to public officer.

UNIVERSITY of Lagos, Akoka, has played host to environmental experts of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Mitigation, SETPOM, where they averred that improper waste disposal and management is causing devastating effects on the climate, noting that environmental pollution and its challenges pose a threat in the economic development of Nigeria.

LAGOS-based international graduate school, Centre for International Advanced and Professional Studies (CIAPS) has launched a “Study Now Pay Later” scheme to help graduates in need of skills to enhance their professional careers.

THE Police, yesterday, said they have arrested an official of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Ayobamide Adeyemi, a dismissed soldier, Ayodele Ibitayo and a rusticated student of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Ikechukwu Daniel, who were members of a notorious abduction gang terrorizing the South Western part of the country.

CALABAR—ONE robbery suspect was killed, one in critical condition and five others arrested by police in Calabar, yesterday, during an exchange of fire after the robbers attacked a microfinance bank in Calabar South.

A 41-year-old man, Francis Uzo, has committed suicide after allegedly hacking his wife, Ozoemena, to death over unresolved issues in Enugu East Local Government Area of Enugu State.

THE candidacy of Donald Trump appealed to me for a variety of reasons. I like the Republican Party because they tend to propagate the core foundational values which make America a country that appeals to me in a special way. I respect the Democratic Party because they tend to expend the frontiers of civil rights, which means that the Minorities are more included. But I am more of the former than the latter.

An Abeokuta Chief Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, ordered the remand of a 48-year-old pastor, Micheal Adeniran, in prison custody for allegedly impregnating a teenager.

Nasarawa State Police Command has arrested one Mr. Emmanuel Ishaya of Ushata village in Nasarawa Local Government Area for allegedly killing Isaac Joshua, his friend’s seven-year-old son, for ritual.