THE Nigerian Senate last Thursday put paid to the “anti-corruption ” career of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. EFCC, Ibrahim Magu on the strength of a damning security report authored by the Department of State Security, DSS. The DSS is directly under the presidency that nominated him.

MORE than 11 years after the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, became operational in Nigeria, workers in the formal sector are yet to begin to contribute the required 1.7 per cent portion of the Consolidated Salary Structure.

With the newly commissioned ultra-modern eye medical facility in Benin, Edo State, medical trips abroad by Nigerians for eye treatments would drastically reduce if not completely found to be wasteful and needless. This was the firm opinion of the Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Benin, Prof. Moses Momoh.

Disclosing this during the FP Watch final dissemination in Abuja, the Director and Head of Reproductive Health Division, Federal Ministry of Health, Dr. Kayode Afolabi said notwithstanding the 2016 prevalence rate of 16 per cent, the 2018 target of 36 per cent is still achievable as Nigeria is part of the global movement on Family Planning-FP 2020.

In the wake of the recent resurgence of the wild polio virus in Borno State and proliferation of other Vaccine Preventable Disorders, the Federal government responded swiftly by strengthening the national immunisation programme.

NIGERIA earned N5.46 trillion from the petroleum sector in six years, from 2010 to 2015, according to report obtained from the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR.

Local content in the oil industry engineering services in Nigeria has suffered due to lack of capacity and law. On the international side, there has been lack of interest in carrying out fabrication here in Nigeria. Because of lack of capacity the International Oil Companies, IOCs, will give the engineering services contract to a service provider that already has facilities outside the country.

Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, yesterday, said that the electoral body has two major clues he said would assist Police to unravel those that masterminded electoral fraud in the recent re-run elections in Rivers State.

THERE is hope of increased oil production in Nigeria as ExxonMobil-operated Qua Iboe Terminal (QIT) is back, producing excess of 150,000 barrels of oil per day, bopd.

ALIGWU – THE paramount of Aligwu community, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area, ONELGA, Rivers State, His Highness C. Nwokocha, has conferred a chieftaincy title of Oyirimba I of Ogba land on a newly repentant militant leader, Prince Ejima Johnson Igwedibia, a.k.a Don Waney, for laying down arms and embracing the amnesty programme of the state government.