Abuja based CSOs and concerned Nigerians in conjunction with over 40 civil society groups nationwide have concluded arrangements to lead a solidarity visit to Amnesty International Nigeria in support of their activities which help in no small way to put the excesses and arbitrariness of State agents in check as it is in developed democracies all over the world.

Sokoto State-owned Orthopaedic Hospital in Wamakko town, Wamakko Local Government Area, for the first time, has successfully performed three knee replacement operations.

NIGERIA’S oil rig count slightly increased to 26 in February, from the 25 recorded in January, this year, Baker Hughes Incorporated and the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, secretariat data shows.

THE House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Review of Pump Price of Petroleum Products, yesterday, summoned Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporations, NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas and Managing Director of Lubcon Oil to appear before it April 7 to explain issues concerning foreign exchange claims and lifting of crude oil by some companies not qualified to do so.

ON March 16, 2017, an article credited to one Mr. Efosa Ugiagbe had its day in Vanguard Newspaper. The pre-emptive article, titled ‘Edo Tribunal: Fate of APC, Obaseki’ and indicated that the case had either been closed at the court, or the article’s author had some clairvoyance at his disposal.

The Minister of State, Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika yesterday said he will resign, if the Abuja Airport runway repair is not completed in six weeks.

A man, who allegedly severed the head and wrists of a 72-year-old woman, identified as Funmilayo Shada, has been arrested by men of Ogun State Police Command.

Nigeria Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, is on a collision course with the House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions over oil spillage in Ward 10, Ikara community of Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area, Edo State.

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, has recovered over N681.5billion from chronic debtors in the last six years of its operation, its Managing Director, Alhaji Ahmed Kuru, said in Abuja yesterday.

BAUCHI—No fewer than 1,500 schools in the North-East region of the country were destroyed by Boko Haram insurgents, denying over 400,000 children, especially girls, access to education.