AnambraState Commissioner for Health, Dr Joe Akabuike says work will soon commence on the proposed General Hospital at Umueze Anam Anambra West Local Government Area.

Thirteen suspected kidnappers and robbers that have been terrorising motorists plying Okene- Ogori Road and other areas of Kogi State, have met their waterloo, following their arrest by detectives attached to Akpafa Police division and operatives of the Federal Special Anti Robbery Squad, FSARS.

ABUJA—THE Presidency,  yesterday, took a swipe at former Vice President and Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku  Abubakar, over his comment that the 2019 Appropriation Bill presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari is a flawed document.

Dariye was sent to a 14-year jail term (later reduced to 10 years) by the Federal Capital Territory High Court presided over by Justice Adebukola Banjoko on a 23-count charge of diversion and laundering of 1.126 billion naira Ecological Funds belonging to the Plateau State Government. While sentencing Dariye, Justice Banjoko had called it “a brazen act of looting.”

There was pandemonium at the premises of a new generation bank along the popular Ndidem Usang Iso Road in Calabar, yesterday, after a Policeman, Sergeant Williams Enah, attached to Mopol 11, allegedly shot and killed an Air Force personnel,

Kwara State Labour Party governorship candidate in 2019 general election, Mr. Issa Aremu, has decried what he called “unacceptable conduct of leaders and supporters of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and All Progressives Congress, APC, for turning Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union, IEDPU’s annual conference into a platform for political thuggery and disruption of a historic conference.”

AS Nigeria’s political climate becomes charged ahead of the 2019 general elections, some of the major gladiators are already beating their chests, confident that their track record and winning strategies will lead them to victory.

THE economic and political development of every country depends largely on the ability of its leadership to make use of the best brains devoid of parochial sentiments. It is on that premise that Nigeria can be rescued from its multi-faceted quagmire.

Family of late former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Vice Marshal, Alex Badeh, yesterday, refuted claims by the suspects linked to his death that they killed him to seize alleged huge sums of money he had on him to buy farmland.

The  governorship candidate of the Action Alliance, AA, Uche Nwosu,  yesterday said that he was fully prepared to end completely, the sufferings experienced by pensioners in the state.