FEDERAL lawmakers from Bayelsa State have called on the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, to urgently take steps to ameliorate the sufferings of the victims of last week’s landslide in Okoloba community in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of the state.

REPRIEVE has come the way of thousands of indigent people living in rural areas and cities in Oyo State as the University College Hospital, Ibadan in conjunction with the Federal Ministry of health has begun free screening and treatment and surgeries for those who have non communicable diseases like uterine fibroid, diabetes and others.

Junior Kabananga scored to give the Democratic Republic of Congo an upset 1-0 win over Morocco Monday in an Africa Cup of Nations Group C match in Gabonese town Oyem.

Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo was, Monday, received by the Delta state Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa at the Osubi Airport of the state during his one day working visit to the state.

AN independent oil marketing company in Nigeria, Fatgbems Petroleum, has unveiled a new brand identity in line with its commitment to be a customer-driven organisation.

INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund, IMF, yesterday affirmed that Nigeria will this year recover from economic recession, projecting that the nation’s economy will grow by 0.8 percent in 2017.

Gambian President, Yahaya Jammeh has asked the ECOWAS body to allow judges decide his case. In a phone call made to the Chairperson of the Economic Community of West African States, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Jammeh begged for assistance of ECOWAS to facilitate the release of judges to hear the case where he wants the inauguration of President-elect, Barrow restrained.

The Naira on Monday stabilised at N497 to a dollar at the open market just as stakeholders expressed hope in its imminent recovery.

Nigeria’s former Vice President and Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar has condemned Monday’s suicide bomb attack on a mosque at the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), describing the action as an attack on education in the North east.

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted hazy weather conditions over the central states of the country on Tuesday.

A lawyer and rights activist, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has urged a Federal High Court in Lagos to restrain Ibrahim Magu from parading himself as acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has called for synergy among federal, state governments and civil society organisations to solve the numerous challenges in the Niger Delta region

The National Industrial Court on Monday adopted the terms of reinstatement of Francis Johnson, a sacked worker of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

Fellow country men and women, aged and young. Fellow Nigerian youths; victims of a disorganised and manipulative society, I greet you spectacularly. I hope my salutation meets you all as well as this dire times permit.