THE Senate said yesterday it had concluded arrangements to summon the Chairman, Federal Civil Service Commission, FCSC, Mrs. Joan Ayo, over disturbing allegations of secret employment being carried out by government agencies in the country.

The United Nations Organization (UNO) has commended the Nigerian Army for being professional in handling Boko Haram terrorism and insurgency especially in the North East Nigeria, saying their conduct was exemplary and it is in line with international best practices.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has provided special polling units to ensure that Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) are not disenfranchised in the November 26 governorship election.

ABUJA—It is more trouble for Justice Sylvester Ngwuta of the Supreme Court, as the Federal Government, yesterday, expanded corruption charges against him from nine to 14. Government, through the office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, entered the amended charge marked FHC/ABJ/C/232, before the Federal High Court in Abuja.

THE Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, has said that 60 per cent of Boko Haram sect members terrorising the North-East, particularly around the fringes of Sambisa Forest and the Lake Chad Basin, are foreigners.

There appears to be no end to the accusation and criticisms of fraud against the government of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan by the present administration as the Presidency, yesterday, lashed out at it, saying it awarded deceitful and ghost projects that were not funded.

Counsel to detained former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki, retd, Mr. Ahmed Raji, SAN, has refuted a claim by the Federal Government that his client rejected permission granted to him to attend his late father’s burial held in Sokoto on Tuesday.

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.