On Monday, November 21, 2016, the newspapers reported that allocations to the Federal, state and local governments had lost N31.8 billion compared to the September figure. The next day, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) disclosed that the economy had shrunk by 2.24 per cent in the third quarter, worse than the second quarter.

The Governor of Ebonyi State, Mr Dave Umahi, told a delegation of military officers from the Command and Staff College, Jaji on a courtesy call on him, that he would lead a task force of senior government officials to enforce the ban on foreign rice in markets throughout his state.

Minister of Sports, Mr Solomon Dalung, has once again, proved his critics right in seeing him as an unfit person to head our Sports Ministry at this stage of our development.

The Federal Government recently approved the establishment of eight more universities in the country. Since former President Olusegun Obasanjo approved the pioneer three private universities – Babcock, Igbinedion and Madonna – every successive president has done the same.

In recent years, 75 per cent of emerging infectious diseases have originated in animals or animal products. These disease outbreaks and public health crises have taken thousands of lives, harmed livelihoods, and severely impacted national, regional and global industries and economies.