CALABAR—THE Head of Maritime Environment, Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Cross River State, Mr. Auta Nicodemus Walbe, has raised the alarm over incessant attempts by some powerful persons to eliminate him though hired assassins.

To avert the death of approximately one million children and women annually from preventable diseases in Nigeria, stakeholders in child and family health services have called for upward review of budgetary allocation and prompt release of funds for health to ensure improved healthcare services at the primary level.

Governor Abiola Ajimobi has directed a 50 per cent cut in the monthly salaries and entitlements of all political appointees in the state.

Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr has expressed satisfaction with the options he has in the squad, ahead of Saturday’s 2018 World Cup qualifier against Algeria in Uyo.

French bishops pleaded for forgiveness Monday for the “guilty silence” of the Catholic Church following months of damaging revelations over the sexual abuse of children by priests.

COUNCIL for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria, COREN, yesterday said the country required about N3 trillion to address the huge road infrastructural deficit.

TWO-TIME governor of the defunct Midwest Region and Bendel State, Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia, has given kudos to Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, saying the outgoing governor has done well in eight years while his achievements were unquantifiable.

All three goalkeepers invited to the Super Eagles camp are jostling to get coach Gernot Rohr’s nod to man the post in the absence of injured Carl Ikeme ahead of the 2018 World Cup qualifier against Algeria.

THE absence of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB; Movement for the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, and the authorities of the Nigerian Army, yesterday, stalled the public hearing on the murder of unarmed youths suspected to be members of IPOB during the pro-Biafra commemoration of events in Onitsha, Anambra State.

When recession hits the economy, it leads to inflation. When it hits INEC it leads to ‘inconclusive elections’. When it hits APC, they turn Graduate to Conductors. When it hits Davido he stops singing ’emi omo baba olowo’ and starts singing ‘gba be oshi’.

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, worldwide and its Directorate of State, DOS, said it has uncovered a plan, which will make Justice Binta Nyako to feign illness in order not to attend today’s hearing in the case of its leader and Director of Radio Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, to further keep him in detention.

THE Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, yesterday, reserved its ruling on a motion seeking to disband the fresh panel constituted to resolve dispute over the governorship ticket of the PDP in Ondo State.

IT is a well-documented fact that the Nigerian state does not truly care for the most vulnerable among its citizens.

EDO State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused the outgoing governor of the state, Adams Oshiomhole, of plotting to spend about N5 billion few days to his exit from office on Saturday, claiming that the governor has sent the sum as supplementary budget to the state House of Assembly for approval.

THE PDP Governorship Candidate, Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim, yesterday, said his mission is to take the state from “the hopeless situation it is now to a very hopeful situation.”