The Nigerian Embassy in Washington is open and fully operational, acting ambassador, Hakeem Balogun, has said.

ON a day three former Heads of State, all retired generals – Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar met in Minna, Niger State, to discuss the state of affairs of the country, wife of the president, Aisha Buhari, said, yesterday that the President is in good health.

A former National Chairman of the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, has commended the nation’s judiciary over the release of the Biafrian activist and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, saying that the judiciary had proved to be the last hope of the common man.

As the controversy over the ownership of N310 million allegedly stolen from the Maitama home of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki gathers storm, the Department of State Service, DSS, yesterday cleared him of any culpability.

THE Ohanaeze Ndigbo has expressed sadness over the inability of President Muhammadu Buhari to declare the state of his health despite his deteriorating condition which had prevented him from attending to important public issues and asked him to declare his health status.

The Federal Government is set to establish a taskforce on the implementation of key objectives of its recently launched Economic Growth and Recovery Plan EGRP.

The National Malaria Elimination Programme, NMEP, has expressed worry over inability of Nigerian manufacturers to meet up with the pre-qualification test required to supply over 45 million Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets, LLINs, to be distributed locally.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, in Abuja, decried the unsuccessful prosecution of high-profile corruption cases in Nigeria.

Ahead of the 2019 general election, the Dr. Ken Nnamani-led Constitution and Electoral Reform Committee, CERC, has recommended the unbundling of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

ABUJA— THE Senate Ad-hoc Committee on Mounting Humanitarian Crisis in the North-East, yesterday, laid its final report, which indicted suspended Secretary to Government of the Federation, SGF, David Babachir Lawal