The Women and Children of Hope Foundation has said the global economic meltdown is adversely affecting the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).

DELTA State Deputy Governor, Prof. Amos Utuama (SAN), has lamented ongoing crack down on bank debtors, noting that the affected transactions were not criminal but purely civil that should not warrant the anti-graft agencies to be drafted in.

FEW days after officials of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and its Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) counterpart, rescued a distress Cotonou-bound vessel, M/T Lilliana Carneiro, the Search and Rescue Unit of NIMASA, Tuesday rescued another vessel, a Russian vessel, M.V Targale, following a distress medical call by the crew.

STRIKING members of the Non-Academic Staff of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) in the nation’s universities have said no amount of intimidation or threat of no-work, no-pay can force them to abandon the struggle to make Nigerian universities regain lost glory and once again start producing world class graduates.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State Tuesday disclosed that the state executive members have approved temporary rehabilitation of the proposed Ikorodu -Mile 12 road pending the final redesigning and reconstruction of the road as part of measures to bring relief to road users.