Sedentary lifestyle: WHO raises alarm

The World Health Organisation (WHO) headquarters in Geneva. Source: REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised the alarm over what it termed the growing sedentary lifestyles among adults and adolescents.

WHO urged people to “get up and get active”, saying that insufficient exercise contributes to cancer, diabetes, depression and other non-communicable diseases.

We have nothing to do with politicians, cannot be bought – IPOB

ENUGU-INDIGENOUS People of Biafra, IPOB, has denied reports that they, IPOB, are being funded by politicians.

IPOB in a statement signed by their spokesmen, Barr. Emma Mmezu and Dr. Clifford Iroanya, respectively, pointed out that they have nothing to do with politicians and cannot be bought with money because they are determined to restore Biafran sovereignty and not out for financial inducement.

Lawmakers task presidency on CJN’s confirmation

Justice Walter Onnoghen

The Cross River caucus in the National Assembly has urged the Presidency to transmit the name of Justice Walter Onnoghen to the Senate for confirmation as the Chief Justice of Nigeria.

Onnoghen (67), who is the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), is a native of Okurike town in Biase Local Government Area of Cross Rivers.

USAID supports Nigeria’s agriculture sector with $600m yearly

The United States Agency for International Development’s office in Nigeria, on Tuesday announced that it supported the development of Nigeria’s agriculture sector with $600m (about N183bn) annually.

USAID’s Mission Director in Nigeria, Mr. Michael Harvey, made the announcement in on the sidelines the inauguration of a new agricultural private sector partnership in Lagos.

Enugu hires 1,127 food vendors for schools

Enugu hires 1.127 food vendors like this woman for Buhari’s School Feeding Programme

About 1,127 food vendors  have been appointed in Enugu state for the Home Grown School Feeding programme of the Buhari administration.

Commissioner for Education, Prof. Uche Eze, said on Tuesday that more food vendors would have qualified for the programme but for technical hitches encountered during the verification.

Wife seeks divorce of jobless husband

A civil servant, Faith Ogu, on Tuesday, dragged her unemployed husband, Joseph Ogu, to a Jikwoyi Customary Court in Abuja, seeking for divorce on the grounds that he deceived her about his `employment’ status.

Faith told the court that her jobless husband had deceived her into believing he had a source of livelihood before their marriage, adding that she only got to knew about his status as a ‘job-less’ person after they had  tied the knot.

Anambra plans N1b social investment programme

Willie Obiano

The Secretary to the Anambra State Government, Prof. Solo Chukwulobelu, says the state has set aside N1 billion in this year’s budget for its social investment programme.

Chukwulobelu made the disclosure at the Community Based Targeting Team training in Awka on Tuesday.

He said that this was done to scale up some of the programmes in the fiscal year.

British lawmakers begin debate on Brexit

British MPs on Tuesday took a key step towards leaving the European Union, launching a debate on a bill that would empower Prime Minister Theresa May to trigger Brexit.

Brexit minister David Davis presented the bill to parliament, giving MPs their first discussion on giving the government the power to trigger Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, which opens two years of negotiations on leaving the bloc.

Alleged N40bn fraud: Investigate Fayemi or face legal action, EKHA tells EFCC

Fayemi

Ado-Ekiti — The Ekiti State House of Assembly has threatened to drag the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to Court if within 21-days it fails to investigate the allegation of N40 billion fraud made against the immediate past governor of the state and Minister of Solid Minerals, Dr Kayode Fayemi.

Transmission firm decries poor funding of power sector

Amid the persistent outage nationwide, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has indentified inadequate funding as one of the major challenges militating against prompt transmission of power across the federation.

TCN’s Managing Director, Dr Abubakar Atiku, in a presentation yesterday in Abuja, enumerated other hiccups to include evacuation bottlenecks,