The Minister of Health, Prof.Isaac Adewole has said that the Federal Governemnt was committed to ensuring that all Nigerians, particularly the women, children and adolescents facing  challenging circumstances have access to basic health and nutrition services that they need.

LOKOJA—Kogi State Internal Reve-nue Services, KGIRS, has debunked online media reports that the agency has diverted N3 billion meant to be remitted to the coffer of the state government, describing the reports as fake, baseless and misleading.

OWERRI—The twenty-seven local government area chairmen elected in Imo State were yesterday sworn-in by Justice Theophilus Nzeukwu, a representative of the Chief Judge of the State, Justice Pascal Nnadi who is on vacation overseas. The event took place at the Sam Mbakwe Exco Chambers Government House Owerri.

ABUJA— STRONG indications emerged, yesterday, that Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, may be in a fix  in conducting the 2019 general elections, following the adoption of  N143 billion by National Assembly as requested by President Muhammadu Buhari, against the proposal of N189 billion put forward by the commission.

ALL is set for today’s declaration of the wife of the defunct Biafran leader and former Nigeria Ambassador to Spain, Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu, who is aspiring for Anambra South senatorial seat in 2019.

As part of the Shell Nigeria Gas, SNG, activities, to mark its 20th anniversary as gas distribution company, no fewer than 170 public transport drivers benefited from the company’s general medical consultation and screening services in Ogun State.

National Universities Commission, NUC, has charged Vice-Chancellors of universities to publish the names of lecturers found wanting over allegations of sexual harassment of their students.

AVEON Offshore has team-up  with National Oilwell Varco, APL/NOV, to launch an EGINA OLT- BUOY.

INDIGENES of Aghoro, a coastal settlement along Ramos River in Ekeremor Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, have raised the alarm over the alleged intimidation of its community leaders involved in the investigation of an oil spill that occurred in the area.

TWO pending cases over the forthcoming governorship election in Osun State, were yesterday, struck out by an Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo, challenging Senator Iyiola Omisore as the governorship candidate of Social Democratic Party, SDP, in the forthcoming September 22, 2018 election.

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has disclosed that the decline in Nigeria’s oil production has slowed the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to 1.5 percent in the second quarter of 2018 (Q2’18).

The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk-Sharing System for Agricultural Lending, NIRSAL, has taken steps to crash food prices in the country.

Growing sophistication and advancement in construction and engineering have given rise to innovations and new techniques in the construction industry, as post-tensioning, which is a technique for reinforcing concrete, reducing the occurrence of shrinkage and cracking by strengthening concrete with high-strength steel strands or bars called tendons, has been innovated to reinforce concrete in construction.

A tanker with 19 crew members on board has docked at a port in Togo after going missing for over a week in a suspected hijacking off the West African coast, the crew’s agency said on Friday.

Total has signed a binding Letter of Intent (LOI) with Shell for the sale of its 26 per cent minority equity stake in Hazira LNG regasification terminal in India. The transaction remains subject to the approval of regulatory authorities.