MAKURDI—Following reported cases of suspected Monkey Pox outbreak in Gboko and Vandeikya Local Government areas of Benue State, the state government has deployed medical personnel to the concerned areas to carry out necessary investigations.

PRESIDENT, Ijaw Youth Congress, IYC, Mr.  Pereotubo Oweilami, yesterday, raised the alarm that many residents of riverine communities in the Niger Delta region have deserted their homes for fear of invasion, following the deployment of several warships and armored gunboats to the creeks by the Nigerian Navy for Operation Octopus Grip, not long after the Nigerian Army’s Operation Crocodile Smile II.

lagos—NATIONAL  Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu has lost his son, Jide Tinubu.

Mr. Muhammed Zakari is a graduate of the Bayero University, Kano and former chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Suleja branch. He is the current Deputy National Treasurer of the All Progressives Congress, APC. In this interview, he spoke on the anti-corruption fight, whistle blowing policy, law and the economy.

As the relaunch of social media platform for women of all continents, Sisterhood Global, continues to elicit positive responses globally, the group has explained its universal approach to solving the plights of women in the world.

THE Confederation of African Football has revealed its 30-man shortlists for the African Player of the Year and Africa-Based Player of the Year.

JUST a couple of hours before President Buhari’s last Monday bombshell on the suspended former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Lawal Babachir and the D.G. National Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ayo Oke, I was at the Abuja residence of my erstwhile Concord Press boss and former Chairman of Progressive Peoples Alliance PPA, Lisa Olu Akerele. This has been homage that I pay to a deserving professional elder as regularly as I come into town. And often in company of his profoundly analytical neighbour friend, Engr. Elijah Adefemi Aribatise, we do occasionally drift into discussing the many ills of our dear country, -especially from the ‘subjective’ prism of some of the controversial issues that I raise weekly in my opinion Colunm.

ON Saturday, November 4, 2017, the people of Enugu State will go to the polls to elect those who will be at the helm of the affairs of the 17 Local Government Areas of the state as well as the 260 electoral wards as Chairmen and Councilors.

Uyo—One of the suspects arrested by the Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS Jubilee Ikot Abasi, Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State, with a vehicle loaded with illegally-refined petroleum products, said he went into the business to raise money to buy drugs for his sick father.

The Governor of Edo State, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has commiserated with the national leader of the All Progressives Congress and former Governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu over the loss of his eldest son, Jide Tinubu.