On the 2017 World No Tobacco Day, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) called on the Federal Government to increase taxation on tobacco products.

A 37-year-old food seller, Dayo Adediran, was, yesterday, brought before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court for allegedly torturing one Ayoola Usman, a hawker.

The Owerri North leadership of All Progressives Congress, APC, has affirmed the suspension from the party, of the immediate past Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mr. Udo Agoha.

Osun State House of Assembly under the leadership of the Speaker, Honouirable Najeem Salaam has passed the 2017 Appropriation Bill of N146,632,746,980.

Students of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, in collaboration with Campus Alive Initiative Limited, have constructed a hostel facility in the institution—the first by students and for students.

As Nigeria marked this year’s Children’s Day, health experts have called for improved gender awareness and sensitisation among Nigerian youths as a strategy to reduce incidences of violence and abuse.

Gunmen, suspected to be robbers, Sunday evening, killed two policemen at Upper Iweka axis of the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State, and allegedly made away with the service rifle of one of them.

A Nigerian oil giant, Taleveras, and two others, yesterday, won oil blocs in Equatorial Guinea

Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has assured that it will change its negative image of a corrupt institution.

It will allow 40,000 children aged under five to receive special fortified foods that fight malnutrition

The Federal Government has been asked to reverse the planned concession of the Port-Harcourt Refinery or face a legal action.

Massive looting of public funds during the administrations of former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan came to the fore again, yesterday, as top government officials and businessmen were said to have illicitly enriched themselves with public funds to the tune of over N1.35 trillion.

Circumstances surrounding the death of former Minister of Health, and current Executive Director of the United Nations Populations Fund, UNFPA, and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Prof. Babatunde Osotimehin, remain unknown.

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has described the Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company Limited as a trail blazer in Nigeria’s automotive industry.

OKUGBE—THE people of Okugbe community, Uromi Kingdom, Esan North East Local Government Area, Edo State, have bemoaned the unacceptable condition of the road linking the village and neighbouring communities.