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A Senator plans to sponsor a bill that will mandate government appointees to undergo mental health tests before they are cleared to hold public office. Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi West Senatorial district, who spoke Monday at the third annual World Mental Health Day symposium in Abuja, said mental health tests will help to combat corruption in the country. Speaking on the day’s theme, Mental Health in the Workplace, Melaye decried the rate of corruption in the country, noting that it demands closer scrutiny especially on the mental health of the perpetrators. The lawmaker said, “Indeed health experts need to…

A total of 17,000 children in primary and junior secondary schools across the 18 local government areas of Cross River State are benefitting from one meal during school hours under the Federal Government’s school feeding programme. Mrs  Marian Uwais, the Special Adviser to the President on National Social Investment speaking in Calabar Sunday, also  stated that 16, 000 households in six local government areas of the state are receiving the N5,000 each  from the Conditional Cash Transfer scheme  of the government, part of the social welfare  project  of the government  to cushion the effects of hardship on the poor and…

President Muhammadu on Monday met three Northern governors in a closed-door meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The three governors were Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State, Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State and Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa State. Governor Gaidam said he visited the President to felicitate him on his return from medical trip, make a request for a refund of N13 billion the state spent on security issues during the last administration and also to solicit assistance from the Federal Government for the resettlement of the Internally Displaced Persons ( IDP). Governor Tambuwal of Sokoto State told State House Correspondents…

More than 2,000 Nigeria Police personnel in Kaduna State Command on Monday in a protest demanded the payment of their August and September salaries. The protest, which took place in front of the Salaries Office located inside the Command headquarters in Kaduna Town, was carried out by security men cutting across the rank and file of the state Police Command. Similarly, policemen in eight states, namely Kaduna, Bayelsa, Imo, Kebbi, Gombe, Nasarawa, Ekiti and Ogun are being owed August and September salaries. Meanwhile the Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, Cyril Abeh, confirmed that the officers were yet to receive their…

Fifty suspected criminals were arrested during a joint operation by Lagos State Task Force over the weekend. The Task Force had combed the area, arrested the suspected notorious criminals and recovered 48 bags of illicit drugs. A male Indian hemp and hard drugs merchant, who was among the suspected criminals, said he sold an average of N500,000 worth of Indian hemp and other illicit drugs daily, in Akala, Mushin area of Lagos State. Popularly known as Malboro, the suspect claimed many of his clients were usually from Obalende, Oshodi, Pen-cinema, Apapa, Lagos Island and Fadeyi among others, saying “Akala serves…

A total of 15 persons were murdered Sunday at Mgboshimili area of Obio Akpor Local Government Area by unknown gunmen. The Rivers State Police spokesman, Mr Nnamdi Omoni who confirmed the painful incident, put the death toll at 10. Community sources told the Vanguard that three of those killed roasted to death in their apartment. They said the assailants shot at a gas cylinder in their apartment, an act that triggered wild fire which consumed them. “One of the three burnt beyond recognition in an apartment in the area was a lady.” As at press time, some of the corpses…

Civil servants in Kogi State are to begin a 3-day corporate prayer and fasting from Wednesday, October 11. In a statement jointly issued by the state chapters of the NLC, TUC and the Joint Public Service Negotiating Council (JPSNC), Olakunle Faniyi, Kolawole James and Isah Abubakar, Secretaries of NLC, TUC and JPSNC respectively, urged Kogi workers to observe the 3-day fasting and prayers in their respective estates, settlements and villages from Wednesday, October 11- Friday, October 13, 2017 as from 10 am each day. “You are to use the period to gather in mosques, churches and other agreed places close…

The Chief Medical Director of the State House Clinic has come under fire over the poor state of the Clinic especially lack of syringes and moribund x-ray machine. Aisha Buhari, the wife of the President, on Monday publicly berated the Chief Medical Director of the State House Clinic, Dr. Husain Munir, Buhari over the decrepit state of the clinic, lamenting a situation where constructions were going on in the health facility that could not boast of a syringe. Mrs Buhari, according to The Punch, spoke at the opening of a two-day stakeholders meeting on Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn Child, Adolescent Health…

An indigene of Ebonyi state,was said to be temporarily insane after discovering that his wife had given birth to conjoined twins in Lagos. Obinna Ugwuoke whose wife gave birth to the twins at First Covenant Hospital in Satellite Town, Lagos on May 8, this year was shocked and went mental on seeing their new babies after the delivery. The happily married couple with two children, according to reports, named the twin boys- James and John. The financially restrained parents are still in the hospital waiting to carry out a separation surgery on the babies

Davido has won 2017 Africa Muzik Magazine Awards & Music Festival (AFRIMMA) held in the U.S. on Sunday at the House of Blues, Dallas, Texas. The Nigerian music star, who won the biggest prize of the night, also took home both the Artist of the Year award and the Song of the Year Award for “IF.” The show was hosted by Basketmouth and Chipukeezy, and was a gathering of the best in African music, from Tiwa Savage to Fally Ipupa. Performing at the award-winning ceremony were; Falz, Kaffy, Scientific from Liberia, Tzy Panshak from Cameroon, C4 Pedro, as well as…