ENUGU—Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State,yesterday,paid a courtesy visit to Onuiyi Haven, the Nsukka residence of Nigeria’s first President, the late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, promising to turn his official residence in Enugu into a tourist site.

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, in this interview, gives a vivid account of how he has been running the state in the face of the difficult economic times.

Deaths from ovarian cancer fell worldwide for over a decade and are predicted to continue to decline though to a smaller degree, by 2020, according to new research published in the leading cancer journal Annals of Oncology.

Former Niger Delta militants, under the Amnesty Programme, have appealed to the Federal Government to pay their three months outstanding stipends.

Since birth, seven months ago, little Great Innocent who was born without an anal orifice, has not been able to pass faeces normally neither has he been able to breathe conveniently.

THERE were a few memories of my secondary school days that I recall when I want to have a hearty laugh in my solitary hours. One was about a guy called Lucky Friday who was supposed to receive some strokes of cane from the Principal on the assembly ground but was not seen the day assigned for the punishment.

APEX Igbo cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Enugu Chapter, weekend celebrated their first new yam festival, Iwa ji or Iri ji, with a lamentation that there was poor harvest this year.

THE ongoing land dispute between Abagana in Njikoka and Ukpo in Dunukofia local government areas of Anambra State has taken another dimension with the arrest of a former member of the state House of Assembly, Chief George Okoye.

Nigerians suffering from hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases can now heave a sigh of relief as scientists have discovered a locally formulated product, Ganoderma coffee and green tea that can help in the management of high blood pressure, diabetes and arthritis.

Ahead of the start of their 2016-17 Champions League campaign against Sporting Lisbon on Wednesday, AFP Sports takes a look at five reasons defending champions Real Madrid can conquer Europe for the 12th time:

Kogi Sate governor, Yahaya Bello, has charged Nigerians to be patient with President Muhammadu Buhari over the present economic recession in the country.

Catholic Knights in Lagos, under the auspices of Knights of St. Mulumba Lagos Metropolitan Council, have reiterated that their stand on abortion and contraceptive usage remain zero tolerance, even amid current economic pressure on many families to control population.

IT is said that the biggest challenge confronting mankind is fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of failure, fear of everything including the fear of not making heaven. So, we stay stuck to our comfort zones, while countries that have dared the unknown are in the Moon, Mars and other galaxies. In this age of information, Nigeria cannot afford a home made mechanised farming equipment despite the over abundance of professors and variegated learned men.

As the recession continues to bite harder in the country, President, Nigeria Gas Association, (NGA), Bolaji Osunsanya has said that gas development at the levels of exploration and utilisation needs new focus.

According to the Foreign Trade Statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, this figure represented a decline by N1.344 trillion or 36.73 per cent compared to first half 2015 figure of N3.659 trillion.