Recently, no fewer than 66 nurses retired from the Ogun state Hospital Management Board after serving 35 statutory years with government hospitals. The state government in its appreciation held a send-off for them which featured a lot of merry making activities. The retired nurses had worked in almost all the state-owned health facilities across the state before their retirement age approached.

Omu-Ekiti in Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti State, about 45 minutes drive from Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State Capital, once a sprawling community during the pre-colonial South-West region of the country, but now a sleepy town, a centre of strange and mysterious happenings.

It was apparently a day for celebration of birth. And residents of Lagos State were all set to commence the Christmas Day celebration with dancing and other activities after the state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, had a night before the day declared, open the One Lagos Fiesta (OLF) at Agege mini-stadium with his great dancing moves.

The Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has urged the Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State to deliver the reserved judgment on the party’s leadership feud pending before it.

THE zero budget Youth and Sports Minister, Barrister Solomon Dalung said his ministry ran in 2016 may have caused the Facilities Department which duty, it is to keep the environment and structures in the Abuja National Stadium and other Stadia in the country unable to perform its duties.