THE Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, is planning to carry out a nationwide surveillance to understand and monitor the epidemiology of Zika virus in Nigeria for appropriate interventions to be put in place.

THE PDP in Ondo State, yesterday, alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was recruiting members of the APC as its Ad-hoc staff that will conduct the November 26 governorship election.

OVER 100 members of Labour Party, LP, and All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State, have decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ward 5, Ovu Inland, in Ethiope East Local Government Area of the state.

NEMBE- IBOU, Eminama and Dorgu-Ewoama communities, all in Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State are spoiling for war over the ownership of Ibou Forest and Iyallakiri Creek oil location following claims by some families in Eminama and Dorgu-Ewoama that they own the contentious portion of land.

ASARAMA: THE traditional ruler of Asarama community, Andoni Local Government Area, Rivers State, HRH Appolus Nteija Ewaye VI, Okan-Ama Asarama, has lamented that government has built police and military posts in the area over the years without deploying personnel to man them.

UYO— SPECIAL Assistant to the Governor of Akwa Ibom State on Power, Mr. Meyen Etukudo, has said it was not the business of the State Government to dispense power and transformers, urging communities grumbling about damaged transformers and overloading to approach the Port –Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHEDC.

CALABAR—EIGHTY-TWO years old Papa Okon Etim, who has spent half a century of his life in pool betting and forecasting at Calabar, Cross- River State, said that he tossed away the money he made from the tricky business in his ambition to make more, moaning that at the twilight of his life, he has nothing to show.

By Chioma Obinna In the spirit of catching them young, Lindy’s Gem’s Foundation and Maggi are teaching basic cooking skills and how to make a balanced meal to 50 children from schools and less privileged homes in Lagos. The mini culinary school experience at the Culinary Academy, Lagos is focusing on the fundamentals of cooking […]

THE Federal government has been called upon to put in place measures that would ensure the proper diagnosis and management of asthma in the country so as to reduce the burden of the disease and rate of death within the populace.

Trial of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, resumed before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, in Abuja, yesterday, with the star witness, Mr. Michael Wetkas, revealing how the defendant acquired various properties with bank loans he secured while in office as the Governor of Kwara State.