The Federal Government, yesterday in Kano, said Nigeria has the highest number of out-of-school children, accounting for 10.5 million of 20 million redundant children across the globe.

The Chinese Consulate in Lagos has donated a borehole to the University of Lagos, UNILAG, Akoka.

The people of Shere Koro of the Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja, last week heaved a sigh of relief as a fully equiped solar powered health facility was handed over to them by the Japanese Government in collaboration with Citizen’s Health Education and Development Initiative (CHEDI).

INDIGENES of Ossissa, Ndokwa East Local Government Area, Delta State, have commended the state government for setting up security watch at flash points on routes of herdsmen to guard against attacks on people of the community.

Inauguration of the Governing Council would enable proper policy formulation implementation and checks and balances

IN SPITE of the poor road directions across country, the federal government has revealed that Nigeria’s roads are far better than what some other countries in the world can boast of as road infrastructure. The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, made this disclosure at the just concluded 23rd National Council of Works meeting in Abuja, pointing out that the country can no longer depend solely on road maps which do not cover notable places in the country.

THE deplorable state of Nigerian roads can best be described as a national shame and embarrassment. This is because most of the roads across the nation, whether Trunk A roads which are federal, or Trunk B which are state roads or Trunk C roads which are local government roads, are in decadent state, and there is hardly any part of the country that can boast of decent motorable roads.

FOLLOWING allegations by some environmentalists and Lagos residents, penultimate week, that Eko Atlantic City, located beside the Bar Beach along Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos was partly responsible for the severe flooding that submerged the entire Victoria Island and Lekki corridor due to torrential rainfall that weekend, the management of the ongoing emerging city has debunked the allegations.

GOVERNOR Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has disclosed that the Olusosun dump site which has been an eyesore, as well as other dumpsites in the state would be closed, after Visionscape, the new environmental agency championing Cleaner Lagos Initiative CLI, would have built engineered sanitary landfill sites and transfer loading stations/material recovery sites where the collected waste would be properly managed in line with international best practice across the state.

Oil-rich Diebiri-Batan community in Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, has elected new executives to pilot the affairs of the community for the next two years with Mr. Ambrose Ogulasougha emerging as chairman.

NIGERIA’s burgeoning art industry is experiencing a transformational moment. Since the growing demand for modern and contemporary African art in the global market, the price of Nigerian art has been on the increase. With the price value hitting the multi-million naira mark, the thrills for local artists and buyers is just as exhilarating.

THE National Alliance Against Drug Abuse, NAADA, has urged the Federal Government to declare drug abuse a national emergency.

STAKEHOLDERS have blamed the Federal Government’s policies for dwindling importation of petroleum products as well as low operations in the downstream sector of Nigeria’s petroleum industry. The Petroleum Tanker Drivers Association (PTDA) of Nigeria, Apapa Branch, which made the disclosure, stated that the downstream operations have dropped, especially as many private investors have not been able to participate.

GHANAIAN government has urged its Nigerian counterpart to consider establishing a national mining company to compete actively with those in the private sector for rapid development of the sector. This was the assertion of the Minister of Lands & Natural Resources, Ghana, John-Peter Amewu, during a stakeholders conference in Abuja. Amewu said Nigeria should begin to look inwards on establishing various linkages that would fast track development of the solid minerals sector in no distant.

THE Federal Government mistakenly based its metering calculations on six million households prior to the privatisation of Nigeria’s power sector. The Minister of Power, Babatunde Fashola, disclosed in a statement that, the federal government underestimated the number of Nigerian households scheduled for metering before privatisation. He stated that one of the omissions of the privatisation carried out by the last administration, according to him, was lack of compulsory metering prior to the privatisation of the sector.