FOLLOWING concerns raised about an alleged outbreak of diarrhoea at Queens College, Yaba, Lagos, the school management has extended the mid-term break by one week, even as investigations are on to unravel the causes of the death of two students of the school.

THE international human rights outfit, Amnesty International, AI, has engaged the Nigerian military authorities in a war of wits, accusations and counter-accusations since our armed forces embraced a full-scale campaign to overcome the Boko Haram Islamist threat in Northern Nigeria.

UNITED Capital Plc said it has committed up to N60 billion in the last two years to underwrite bonds issued by state governments and corporate issuers.

THE Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, has blamed the protracted crisis rocking the umbrella body of Christians in Nigeria on pride among the ranks of leaders.

TWO members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, and four unidentified travellers were, yesterday, confirmed dead when the vehicle they were travelling in had an accident along the Warri-Benin Expressway.

The Federal Government has reviewed visa processes for foreigners who wished to visit Nigeria for business and tourism purposes.

A 43-year-old man, Adebisi Akinrinmola, who allegedly killed his ex-wife’s husband, Ashimiyu Ademola, last week at Ajebo village, Ijebu-Igbo area of Ogun State, has begged that he should not be sentenced to death, saying the devil made him do it.

Many were speechless and others moved to tears, weekend, when they were conducted round a warehouse in Satellite Town, Lagos, that was filled with sub-standard tyres imported into the country by some Chinese nationals.

All Progressives Congress, APC, leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said that he could contest for a political office in the near future including the Presidency whenever the right opportunity presents itself.

COUNSEL to Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Mr. Onyechi Anumonye, has attributed the wrong accreditation of voters during the September 28, 2016 governorship election in Edo State to the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, personnel it employed as ad-hoc staff.

FOLLOWING concerns raised about an alleged outbreak of diarrhoea at Queens College, Yaba, Lagos, and the school management has extended the mid-term break by one week; even as investigations are on to unravel the causes of the death of two students of the school.

Cross River State governor, Prof. Ben Ayade, weekend, performed the groundbreaking for the construction of 5,000 housing units for the displaced people of Bakassi.

THE Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, led by Olorogun Moses Taiga, has been urged to denounce the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa, most of whom are of Urhobo extraction.

Delta State Board of Internal Revenue, DBIR, in January 2017, recorded N6.2 billion as Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, making it the highest the state has recorded in the last 16 months.

THE Babangida military regime which shot itself into power on August 27, 1985 was a deceptive one. Early in its life, it asked Nigerians to debate whether to take or reject an International Monetary Fund, IMF, loan and its enslaving conditions. Nigerians overwhelmingly rejected the loan. General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida in a nationwide broadcast, acknowledged the decision of the populace. But he went on to get into bed with the IMF.