Medical doctors under the employ of two Teaching Hospitals in Oyo State, University College Hospital, (UCH) Ibadan and LAUTECH Teaching Hospital (LTH) Ogbomoso have raised alarm over irregularities in their remuneration, saying that, resident doctors in LTH, Ogbomoso only received three and half month salaries in 2016 while UCH Ibadan resident doctors are yet to get November and December 2016 salary.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, ordered the temporary forfeiture of the sum of $153,310,000, which a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, allegedly siphoned from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC and stashed in three banks in the country, namely Sterling Bank Plc, First Bank Plc and Access Bank Plc.

John Mikel Obi admits it has ‘truly been an honour’ to play for Chelsea as the Nigerian midfielder penned an open farewell to fans after bringing his 10-year stay at the club to an end. The 29-year-old departed the club on Thursday after sealing a move to Chinese Super League outfit Tianjin TEDA.

Hints that Nigeria might be facing another round of fuel crisis emerged yesterday, as oil marketers in Nigeria, under the aegis of the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association, DAPPMA, disclosed that oil marketers now only import 10 per cent of petroleum products into the country.

The essence of democracy is that periodically those at the helm of affairs give account of their stewardship to the electorate, the owners of the electoral sovereignty. In so doing, the masses would know the success and challenges of government. And this is normally done by government officials, be they the president, ministers, governors or commissioners by briefing the press. And this was what informed the organization of ministerial press briefing by the Ministry of Information, Delta State under the captainship of Patrick Ukah, the Commissioner of Information in December, 2015.