AS the 2019 general elections draw nearer, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, yesterday, advised Nigerians to stop glorifying corrupt people but should see the anti-corruption war by the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration as a collective fight.

The All Progressives Congress APC has said it has uncovered plans by the Peoples Democratic Party PDP to attack her senators as a way of frustrating their efforts to effect a change in the leadership of the Senate.

The week that just passed will for long be remembered as perhaps the most momentous week in the history of the Muhammadu Buhari administration since 2015. Exactly a week ago, officers of the Department of State Security Services (DSS), acting under the instructions of their boss at the time, Lawal Daura, wearing hoods, stormed the premises of the National Assembly in Abuja, Gestapo-style, occupied the place and resorted to the harassment of National assembly workers, members of the Legislative Assembly who had rushed to the place, and civil society groups that heard of the assault and decided to witness the special drama that was unfolding.

TOWARDS ending the series of outbreaks of  Lassa fever, Monkeypox, yellow fever, cholera, meningitis, Ebola and other epidemic diseases in Nigeria, the  Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, and the Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria, PHN, have launched  the Alliance for Epidemic Preparedness and Response, A4EPR.

With the security challenges facing the Nigerian Army which has put high demand on human and material resources, the Nigerian Army, NA, has embarked on restructuring and re-equipping of its medical corps facilities to ensure availability of world-class care for the safety of lives of troops when they need to be admitted in the hospitals for treatment.

CONTRARY to speculations stating that monosodium glutamate, MSG, is harmful to health, the West African Seasoning Company Limited, WASCO, has debunked such as unfounded rumour, saying it is 100 per cent safe for consumption.

THE Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has called on the Federal Government to intervene in the debt disagreement between them and the electricity distribution companies, DISCOs, so as to enable them access the stranded 2,000 megawatts of electricity.

Successful recruits into the National Pension Commission, Pencom, have petitioned Acting President Yemi Osibanjo over the suspension of their appointments which they said has led to the death of one of them, Ajiya Mustapha.

FEAR has gripped 14 indigenous oil and gas companies as the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, has started to probe Energia Limited, one of the leading indigenous companies over labour, operational, managerial and other issues.

IKPA- COMMUNITY leaders of Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, have called on their sons and daughters appointed into positions of authority to be committed to using their positions to touch lives and contribute to the general development of the area.

THE Acting President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has expressed  satisfaction over the $16 billion Egina Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) project, adding that the economy was ready for more investment.

THE Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Mr. Abubakar Bwari, has identified vibrant steel industry as a key driver for Nigeria’s economy.

OGONI- PRESIDENT of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, Mr. Leborsi Pyagbara, has said that Ogoni people in Rivers State whose sources of livelihood were destroyed by pollution by oil companies required economic cleanup and not just environmental remediation from the Federal Government.

Ilorin—Protesting students of College of education, ilorin , Kwara State over the ongoing strike by their lecturers, disrupted ongoing second semester examination.

MOVEMENT for the Survival of the Ogoni People, MOSOP, has described the renewal of Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC’s mining rights in Ogoni as shocking and an insult on the collective dignity of the Ogoni people.