THE Chairman of Egor Local Government Area of Edo State, Mr Crosby Eribo, yesterday, brought succor to women, whose goods were destroyed during the fire incident that gutted the Edaiken market last month. He gave out over N1million to the victims.

During outbreaks of the disease, cholera may spread by contact with the faeces of an infected person; Vibrio cholerae can live in faeces for up to two weeks. It also spreads when people use contaminated water for cleaning or waste disposal. Eating raw or undercooked shellfish can be another source of the illness because the bacteria can survive in slow-moving rivers and coastal waters.

THE Federal Government has set 2020 as target for the realization of 70 percent self-sufficiency in local production of sugar, just as it frowned on the over N30 billion spent on the importation of the product annually for consumption in the country.

The raging debate on whether President Goodluck Jonathan should contest the 2011 election or not has continued to dominate public discourse, even when the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the PDP has cleared him to contest in the spirit of continuity and the joint ticket he has with the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. Though the NEC also insisted that zoning as enshrined in the party’s constitution should remain.

Nigeria’s state-owned oil company, Nigeria National Petroleum Company, NNPC, owes gasoline suppliers between $3 billion and $6 billion for previous imports, trade sources told Reuters, although the company said it was meeting its obligations.