AS Nigeria’s housing deficit keeps increasing by the day, Pertinence Ltd, developers and owners of ABC Gardens and ABC VIP Gardens located across the country, has unveiled a housing project called ABC Gardens country home as part of the solution to the nation’s housing problem.

If that day passes without people taking their destinies into their own hands, and their oppressors, the political, war, religious, economic and other criminals running helter-skelter in search of safety, the entire citizens of this country, especially the intelligentsia, should cover their faces in shame

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, said it has secured $3.8 billion foreign direct investment, FDI, inflow into Nigeria for four major oil and gas projects.

STAR Deep Water Petroleum Limited, a subsidiary of Chevron Nigeria Limited, and its Agbami co-venturers, have donated a chest clinic to Zamfara State Government to help in the fight against tuberculosis and other diseases.

WHILE committed to a knowledge-based transformation of the civil service, the Ministry of Establishments, training and Pensions, under the overall guidance of the His Excellency, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, is also overly committed to staff welfare in terms of in-service and post-service welfare. Thus, matters relating to pension administration and management have always been at the top of the list for the administration.

WORRIED by increasing electrical accidents, the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC, has inaugurated a panel to investigate the circumstances surrounding the electrical accident which occurred, last week in Angwan Biri, a neighbourhood of Minna, the Niger State. The AEDC mandated the six-man investigative team to establish the root cause of the incident, which resulted in the death of two residents.

Three power plants, Omotosho II, Geregu II and Alaoji II, have been shut as a result of inadequate gas supply for electricity generation, data obtained from National Electric System Operation (SO) showed.

THE Maritime Security Agency, MASECA, has called on the Federal Government to authorize it to partner with other security agencies to beef up security around the country’s waterways in order to tackle vandalism of petroleum assets, militancy and other crimes.

NIGERIA’S hope of increasing oil production will soon be a reality as Egina oil field, the flagship of Total Exploration and Production, is set to come on stream in 2018. The floating production storage offloading, FPSO, project is expected to add 200,000 barrels per day, bpd to Nigeria’s output. This is coming as the Total Group said it has invested about $10 billion in the Nigeria oil sector in the last five years.

The Director-General of the National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC), Otunba Segun Runsewe has re-iterated his pledge to unbundle the huge potentials in the culture sector to strategically drive the process of economic diversification in line with the policy thrust of the present administration.

The idea that any medication available without a prescription is safe to take can be a dangerous one for those with diabetes, who risk spikes in blood glucose and blood pressure by taking the wrong medication for something as simple as the common cold, according to a researcher at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy, who said that nonprescription medications can have contraindications and drug interactions similar to those posed by prescription medications.

A non-governmental organization, Crimsonbow Sickle Cell Initiative is organizing a programme aimed at educating the people, especially the unprivileged on sickle cell prevention and management.

HUNDREDS of traders at the Wappa market in Kano weekend benefitted from the ongoing nationwide free medical services organised Dexa Medica makers of Boska, under its Pain Free Day initiative programme.

THE immediate past governor of Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, has declared that political will and public financing are key to attainment of Universal Health Coverage, UHC, in Nigeria and the developed world.

COMMERCIAL crude oil exploration in Nigeria and the rest of the world would become unprofitable within the next 13 years, according to a report by the Centre for Social Justice, CSJ, a civil society organization.