ABUJA—THE Chief of Defence Staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin, said yesterday the Defence Headquarters had identified lapses that resulted in failures concerning the joint operations of the Armed Forces of Nigeria in the prosecution of war against Boko Haram insurgents in the North East.

IN the next few days, President Muhammadu Buhari, will commission NNS UNITY, the newly acquired Offshore Patrol Craft, OPV, from China. This is the second China-built OPV to join its sister OPV, NNS CENTENARY earlier commissioned. Both of them are expected to join the fight against all forms of illegalities in the national offshore oil and gas installations.

ABUJA—GOVERNOR Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has said his government is working to attract more development and investments to the state, even as the government is striving to ensure that the 2017 budget proposal gets to the state’s House of Assembly before December 15.

BY calling for war between Urhobo and Ijaw over a communal clash between Isaba and Aladja, Chief Omene has desecrated both the directional codes of Urhobo culture and the ethics of the engineering profession.

WITH less than 100,000 qualified medical doctors to a population of about 180 million, oil-rich Nigeria has one of the worst doctor to patients ratio in the world. This explains, in part, why Nigeria is among the seven countries with the lowest life expectancy in the world, averaging just 54 years. For perspective, countries like South Sudan and Afghanistan, ravaged by war in recent years, have higher life expectancy rates than Nigeria.