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The World Health Organization(WHO) announced at the weekend that polio is no longer endemic in Nigeria. This is the first time that Nigeria has interrupted transmission of wild poliovirus, bringing the country and the African region closer than ever to being certified polio-free. With this development, Nigeria, which in 2012, accounted for more than half of all polio cases worldwide, has recorded a major breakthrough in its fight against polio.   The country last  reported a case of wild poliovirus in July 24, 2014, and a full 12 months have passed without a fresh case of the paralysing disease. Only two countries – Pakistan and Afghanistan are still on the polio-endemic list and WHO has assured it will support their efforts to join list of nations that had been declared free of the disease.

Nexstar Broadcasting has made a bid for TV-station owner Media General , in a surprise maneuver aimed at breaking up Media General’s effort to acquire Meredith Corp. Nexstar sent a letter to Media General’s board of directors Monday morning offering $14.50 a share for the company. The offer includes $10.50 in cash and 0.0898 Nexstar shares for each Media General share, according to the letter. “The transaction we are proposing would be a transformational event for both Nexstar and Media General shareholders and would deliver superior, immediate and long-term value to Media General’s shareholders compared with Media General’s proposed acquisition of Meredith,” said Nexstar Chairman and Chief Executive Perry Sook in a statement. Earlier in September, Media General agreed to buy Meredith for about $2.4 billion in cash and stock. The deal must be approved by shareholders of both companies and would be valued at about $3.1 billion including debt.

                      Nollywood actor, Jim Iyke who welcomed a baby boy with his Lithuanian girlfriend some weeks ago has taken out time to relieve the moment and share his experience about being a new father. He also shared photos of his cute son Read the touching message below: Son, A few weeks ago I recall kissing your mom’s sweaty brows as I encouraged Her to push and push harder intermittently. I recall her growing weaker by the minute, her fingers clutching my shoulders in a death grip , her intense green eyes staring deep into my core with that singular resolve only women in labor possess. I asked Doc Crawford for the honour of pulling you out of your mom which she granted without wasting a heartbeat and also gave me the charge of cutting the umbilical cord. You see against every ethos of her practice she sensed a higher purpose beyond this realm; a symbolic need for me to perform this final task to weld you and I, father and son, into one single entity.

                           President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the stoppage of special allowance for security personnel in the Presidential Villa even as he has refused to pay  them since his assumption of office. This is according to Premium wikis report. Before now, all security personnel posted to the Villa were being paid what is known as Risk and Hazard Allowance.  During the last regime, sources gathered that senior security officers covering the Villa were said to have been collecting between N75,000 and N50,000 while their junior ones received between N30,000 and N25,000 on a monthly basis. It was gathered that the ADC to the President, Lt. Col. Muhammed Abubakar, summoned sectional heads of all the security agencies manning different positions within the Villa to inform them about the stoppage of the allowance following rumours making the rounds among the operatives that the money meant for the affected officers was being embezzled. It was further

                           A family member has said con­trary to the claim by the police authorities, ransom was paid before for­mer minister of finance and chieftain of Afenifere, Chief Fa­lae was eventually released. The family source also berated the Inspector-Gen­eral of Police, Mr Solo­mon Arase of claiming the glory for Falae’s release saying the police boss just came to Ondo for jambo­ree “because Police did not have any input in Baba’s release.” The former Secretary to the Government of the Fed­eration and national chair­man of the Social Demo­cratic Party (SDP) was kidnapped in his farm at Ilado in Akure North Local Government Area by sus­pected Fulani herdsmen. He regained his freedom after spending four days in the kidnappers’ den. “I wonder why people don’t investigate well be­fore talking. It will be very unfair to give any kudos to the police over Chief Fa­lae’s release having being held hostage for four day “If we relied on Police to rescue B

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State, Chief Ayo Akande, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s achievements in his first 100 days in office are unprecedented in the history of the country. The APC leader said that contrary to criticisms over the delay in the appointment of ministers, the President had built a solid foundation for his development plans. Akande, who said this in a statement on Wednesday, noted that the President’s anti-corruption crusade has kept people on their toes and instilled a culture of probity in governance. He said, “President Buhari’s achievements in his three-pronged programme of fighting corruption, tackling insecurity and unemployment are unprecedented in the history of Nigeria. Buhari has really performed credibly. No Nigerian President has ever done that in three months without ministers. “Buhari has started on a good footing which has been yielding positive results. The singular action of getting the Chief of Army S

The Accord Party in Oyo State has written a petition to the Office of the state Commissioner of Police calling for the arrest of a former caretaker chairman of Ibadan North-West Local Government, Mr. Wasiu Olatubosun, over what it described as a campaign of calumny against the party’s candidate in the last governorship election, Chief Rashidi Ladoja. The petition, which was signed by the state Administrative Secretary of the party, Bola Akinyemi, on behalf of the state chairman, Basiru Lawal, was titled, “Falsehood and campaign of calumny against the person of Senator Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja and Accord” and was dated August 31, 2015. It stated that a group called Ajumose Coalition Movement led by Mr. Olatubosun, who is a stalwart of the All Progressives Congress in the state, alleged that Ladoja was responsible for the circulation and posting of Governor Abiola Ajimobi posters in some parts of the state, which suggested that there could be a rerun of the state governorship election

The immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday refused to answer questions on the allegations of corruption levelled against him. Fashola was alleged to have spent N139m on two boreholes at the Lagos House, Ikeja, and another N78.3m for the upgrade of a personal website. The former governor, who was the guest speaker at the 16th Bishop Mike Okonkwo Annual Lecture, urged Nigerians to ensure that they hold their leaders accountable always. The event, which was held at the Shell Hall of the MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos Island, was titled, ‘The Nigerian political Class and the Citizen’s Quest for Good Governance.’ The governor said most Nigerians failed to hold their political leaders to their campaign promises after elections. However, a mild drama unfolded during the question-and-answer session. A journalist from The SUN, Mr. Chika Abanobi, noted that Fashola was right to urge Nigerians to hold their leaders accountable. He, therefore

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday made public details of their assets, which had been declared to the Code of Conduct Bureau. According a statement by the President’s Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President has about N30m in his only bank account with the Union Bank Plc, while the Vice President has a balance of N94m, $900,000 and 19,000 pounds in his bank accounts. Shehu’s statement said the President had shares in Berger Paints, Skye Bank and Union Bank and a total of seven houses, comprising two mud and a standard house in Daura, his hometown; two homes in Kaduna, one in Kano and one in Abuja. Also belonging to the President are two undeveloped plots of land in Kano and Port Harcourt. The President did not ascertain the location of the Port Harcourt land, according to the statement. Buhari also has an orchard and a ranch in Daura with 270 heads of cattle, 25 sheep, five horses, a variety of bird

The Islamic State  group has blown up three tower tombs in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra that were built between the years 44 and 103 AD, the country’s antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim said on Friday. Abdulkarim told Reuters that sources in Palmyra had confirmed the destruction of three tombs including that of Elahbel, built in 103 AD, which he said was four storeys high and had an underground floor. IS group militants have blown up two other temples over the past few weeks in Palmyra,  a UNESCO World Heritage site , which it has controlled since capturing the city from the Syrian government in May. The group considers the buildings sacriligeous.

                                                     The immediate past Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, says no anti-corruption agency in the country can probe him. The PUNCH had reported that Amaechi along with some other former gov ernors: Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano); Sullivan Chime (Enugu); Babatunde Fashola (Lagos); Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom); Sule Lamido (Jigawa); Shehu Shema (Katsina) and Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State were being probed by the Independent Corrupt Practices and related offences Commission. However, Chief Tony Okocha, a former aide to Amaechi, told one of our correspondents that the ex-governor was not afraid of ICPC or the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission as long as the probe was not a witch-hunt. Okocha, however, recalled that the ICPC and the EFCC had not vacated a court order stopping any of them from investigating any Rivers Government official and as such could not probe him. He stated that Governor Nyesom Wike was a benefici