AN aspirant of All Progressives Congress, APC, in last Saturday’s primaries of the party for the January 28, 2017, scheduled bye-election for the House of Representatives seat for Etsako Federal constituency of Edo State, Mr. Blessing Agbomhere, has alleged that the rules of the primaries were manipulated mid-way to favour Mr Johnson Oghuma.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has confirmed nine deaths and 20 cases of Lassa Fever in seven states since the beginning of the dry season in December 2016; even as it commences implementation of its plan to strengthen nationwide response capacity to anticipated Lassa Fever cases.

MINISTER of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, yesterday, told an expanded joint committee of the House of Representatives that the 2017-2019 Medium Term Expenditure Framework, MTEF, had to be altered because key projections in the document have become unrealistic.

OPERATIONS of West Africa’s largest fertilizer plant, Ndorama Petrochemical Limited, in Eleme Local Government Area, Rivers State, were yesterday, disrupted for several hours after aggrieved host communities took over the main gate into the firm.

THOSE who were in Lagos around 1991-2 would remember Forum Finance located on Allen Avenue in Ikeja,a company that employed a number of young men and women in flashy cars going about town duping the gullible of their hard earned money .Its famous advert was “Forum go double your money!”. It paid outrageous returns to its earlier investors and this made many fools to part with their money . By the time the bubble burst,it was sorrow and tears for thousands of unwary who lost their fortunes to the Ponzi scheme .