Nigeria coach Gernot Rohr has revealed he will at next year’s AFCON in Gabon to spy on World Cup rivals Cameroon and Algeria.

The Federal government has been urged to make diabetes screening routine in hospitals across the country.

The National Agency for the Control of AIDS, NACA recently plans to host a National scientific conference on HIV prevention to showcase achievements of the AIDS response in Nigeria.

UNIVERSALLY, the Primary Health Care, PHC, is a form of essential service that is based on scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods and technology to make health care accessible to all individuals and families in a community.

SANGANA—SEVERAL decades after the ancient market at the coastal settlement of Sagana, Brass Local Government Area, East senatorial district, Bayelsa State, where people traded by barter between the 60s and 70s, was washed away by the surging sea, the villagers are thrilled by the plan of the local government council to recreate the market.

A bloody clash between the police and members of Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, popularly known in local parlance as Shi’ites, on the outskirts of Kano metropolis, yesterday morning, claimed the life of a police sergeant and 19 members of the sect.

ABEOKUTA—Men of Ogun State Police Command have arrested two men, Ezekiel Yusuf, 29, and Musa Abubakar, 25, for raping a 23-year-old girl (names withheld), who hawks pawpaw.

A former World Bank specialist, Professor Ladipo Adamolekun has picked holes in the recent ranking of Nigeria’s economy as the biggest in Africa by the International Monetary Fund, IMF.

BAKASSI—NIGERIAN fishermen and traders at Bakassi and Henshaw Beach Market, Calabar South Local Government Area, Cross River State, have recounted their bitter ordeal at the hands of Cameroonian gendarmes, who ceaselessly seize properties of Nigerians and rob on Bakassi high seas and waterways.

BENIN—CHAIRMAN, Ijaw National Congress, INC, Western zone, comprising Delta, Edo and Ondo states, Chief Robinson Ogunkoru, has said that Boma Obuoforibo, not Alatubo Charles Prieye Harry, is the national president of the congress. Ogunkoru, who spoke to NDV on the leadership tussle rocking INDC, said Harry was alien to the body.

Former Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki, is dead. He died Monday and will be buried Tuesday, according to Muslim rites.

Popular Highlife musician, Bright Chimezie made a surprise appearance on stage at the Star Music Trek concert in Owerri last weekend, performing live on stage with Humblesmith.

A 29-year-old man, Fatai Aliyu, was yesterday sentenced to two years imprisonment by an Osogbo Magistrate’s Court in Osun State, for stealing 10 bowls of rice and four bottles of wine.

CALABAR—MRS Bibiana Elemi Edu, President of Catholic Women Organisation, CWO, in Cross River State, has been abducted by gunmen, while the organisation was holding a meeting with reverend sisters at the Old People’s Home, Marian Hill, Calabar.

Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation yesterday said that it didn’t collect subvention from the Federal Government but rather remitted part of its surplus into the consolidated revenue fund.