PTDF unveils strategic framework for capacity building
HYPERTENSION: Add less salt to food, NHF tells Nigerians
Electoral fraud: Don seeks more empowerment for INEC
APC stalwarts, supporters drum support for Buhari in Ebonyi
Police arrest woman, son over death of vigilante
9 naval officers pummel Bayelsa civil servant
COMTOA refutes plot to murder Ikimi
Riot in Benue prison, as herdsmen kill inmate
AIG Zone 5 meets with disengaged Edo revenue collectors
Woman beats husband’s niece to death
2016 budget expires May 5 — Senate
Wike diverting attention from his chain of problems —Ortom
Man jailed for insulting Katsina gov

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Uber supplements existing transportation networks
The Uber App is a software application service, Uber is also a technology company that connects riders with drivers, and through a smartphone app. Uber’s mission is to help people get a ride at the push of a button – everywhere and for everyone.
‘Cases of HIV, STIs rising among youths in Lagos’
Leadership Initiative for Youth Empowerment (LIFE) has raised alarm over the high rates of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and other sexually Transmitted Infections, STI, among youths in Lagos state, even as it called on youths to access primary healthcare centres rather than resorting to traditional methods of treatment
Nominations open for 4th Nigerian Healthcare Awards
NOMINATION for the 4th edition of the Nigerian Healthcare Excellence Awards (NHEA 2017) has opened even as stakeholders in the health sector have been advised to visit www.nigeriahealthawards.com.ng to either make their nominations online or download the nomination form.
Police foil robbery attempt on commuters by herdsmen in Delta
LESS than two months after a gang of armed herdsmen waylaid commuters on the Agadama-Bomadi Road in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State and robbed them of their valuables, security operatives in the area, yesterday, dispersed a gang of herdsmen who attempted to rob travelers on the same road.
Nigeria, India trade hits $643.3 bn in one year
The Indian High Commission has said that the total trade between Nigeria and India in the past one year has hit $643.3 billion
330KVA project: A’Ibom clan leaders allegedly threaten c’ttee members for rejecting bribe
MEMBERS of the Ad Hoc Committee drawn from the 12 Ukpum Ete villages in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, inaugurated to oversee the controversial 330KVA Ikot Ekpene-Ikot Abasi Transmission Line Project, being executed by National Integrated Power Project, NIPP and Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited, have raised the alarm that some fraudulent community leaders were hoodwinking youths to terrorise them for refusing to accept bribes.
Presidency lauds Army for defeating Boko Haram
Presidency yesterday commended the Nigerian Army on the defeat of insurgency in Nigeria.
Skye Bank rewards customers today
Skye Bank Plc, will today reward its customers with brand new car, N1 million as well as cash and consolation prizes to close its 90-days “Receive and Win” promotion in Lagos.
Mortuary attendant remanded in prison for beheading corpse
An Iyaganku magistrate’s court, sitting in Ibadan, has remanded a 57-year-old mortuary attendant, Muritala Raimi, who works at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, in Agodi Prison, for allegedly stealing a human skull from his workplace.
“Championship games, affirm govt. commitment to stamp out insurgency”
—Never again will terrorists take over and occupy any part of Nigeria’s territory, President Muhammadu Buhari vowed in Sambisa Forest, yesterday.
BDCs reluctant to buy dollars as CBN pegs FX rate for invisibles at N360/$, injects $185m
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday, directed banks to sell dollars for invisible transactions such as personal travel allowance, business travel allowance, school fees and others at N360 per dollar.
Anambra 2017: NARD President condemns attacks on Nwoye
The President of the National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, Dr. John Onyebueze, has tasked politicians in Anambra State to move away from mounting campaigns of calumny against doctors and other rivals in the Anambra governorship contest.
Excitement, as ex-envoy builds new city for Bakassi refugees
SINCE the expulsion of the people of Bakassi by Cameroon from their ancestral home in 2010, following the transfer of the Peninsula to the nation’s neighbour, a development that automatically turned them into internally displaced persons, the unfortunate locals have been living pathetically in makeshift houses at the camp allocated to them at Ekpri Ikang, Akpabuyo Local Government Area.
Ambode recruits 5,700 neighbourhood corps officials, deploys 4,554 vehicles
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State yesterday launched the re-branded Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps, with a pledge that the security of lives and property in the state is now non-negotiable.
Banks lend 0.1% of total credit to MSMEs
TOTAL loans granted by banks to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria amounted to just over 0.1 percent of total banks’ credits to the private sector over the past five years.

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