NIGERIANS deserve high quality healthcare and the private sector can play a pivotal role in ensuring that such quality is delivered and made accessible.

THE water problem in Nigeria has reached crisis point. No day passes without stories or news about cases of water borne diseases caused by chronic shortage of safe water making the rounds.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, councillorship candidates in the 2014 Anambra State Local Government elections said the only saving grace for the party in the November 18 governorship election is for PDP to allow a grassroots politician to carry the flag of the party at the poll.

The first female Senior Advocate of Nigeria in the country, Chief Olufolake Solanke, has expressed optimism that though Nigeria is sick, it will be healed with the unbiased application of the country’s laws, which she noted the country has in abundance.

Justice Kazeen Alogba of an Ikeja High Court has upheld the dissolution of a 15 year-old marriage between a businessman, Kingsley Onyenobi and his wife Chioma.

POWER for All, a global coalition of companies and civil society organisations has expressed optimism over the new regulations for electricity mini-grids by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), stressing that it will enhance investment in the power sector.

NIGERIA’S trauma of going through a year – long closure of Trans Forcados Pipeline, its major crude export line will soon be over, as an alternative line, the Amukpe Escravos Pipeline Project, AEPP, is expected to come on stream before the end of 2017.

WORRIED by the the health challenges of President Muhammadu Buhari, the Diocese of Enugu Anglican Communion has suggested that President Muhammadu Buhari resigns from office.

Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar-led 27-man Education Revitalisation and Strengthening Committee, constituted yesterday by Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, has vowed to sack all unqualified teachers in the state.

The Benue State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, has commenced investigation into the alleged recruitment of 2,500 fictitious workers and unqualified teachers on its payroll.

In the spirit of the Eid el-Fitr celebration, Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State, yesterday, freed 61 prison inmates and settled their fines totalling N3,666,000.

The defeat in the final of the 2016 ITTF African Championship in Agadir, Morocco last October is still fresh in the memory of Dina Meshref and with the staging of the 2017 ITTF African Cup at same venue, the 2015 African Games champion is indeed bracing up for the oppositions from Nigeria and others.

POWER for All, a global coalition of companies and civil society organisations has expressed optimism over the new regulations for electricity mini-grids by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), stressing that it will enhance investment in the power sector.

The Supreme Court has ended the tortuous journey of 33 years of litigation over a parcel of land in Iwaya, Lagos State, which has been in contention between Iwaya community and the Anglican Church.

DEPUTY Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Francis Alimikhena, APC, Edo North, said yesterday that separatist agitations in the country were uncalled for and warned against inflammatory statements.