As news reports of alleged corruption creeping into the inner cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari (which has been swirling for months) grew to a crescendo last week, he finally ordered the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, to probe all his officials implicated in corrupt practices.

A political circus of sorts has been playing out in The Gambia. Yahya Jammeh, the dictator who came to power 22 years ago, had boasted he would win his biggest landslide electoral victory in the run-up to the recently held presidential election. But he was met with a stunning defeat at the hands of Adama Barrow, a property developer who led a coalition of seven political parties to score 45 per cent in an election that three main political parties featured.

THE sudden death of three members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) at different orientation camps raised fresh concerns about the safety of participants across the country. The incidents which occurred in Bayelsa, Kano and Zamfara States were illness-related. Victims were of the 2016 Batch B Stream 1. They were Chinyerum Elechi, Ifedapo Oladepo and Monday Ukene.

Since crude oil was discovered in commercial quantities in Oloibiri in today’s Bayelsa State, gas flaring has been an intractable headache in the Niger Delta.

The high prevalence of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in Nigeria originates primarily from cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) such as High Blood Pressure (HBP) or hypertension, diabetes, stroke, coronary heart diseases, and chronic obstructive airway diseases including asthma, among others.