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News: FG Launches Pre-Offer Roadshow For N100bn Sukuk

The Debt Management Office (DMO) will today kicked off activities preparatory to the issuance of the much awaited N100 billion non-interest bearing bond popularly called Sukuk.

Ezekiel Elliott's 6-game ban upheld, will play vs. Giants

An arbitrator upheld Ezekiel Elliott's entire six-game NFL suspension after denying his appeal on Tuesday, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported. Although the suspension was upheld, the NFL is allowing the Dallas Cowboys running back to play Sunday against the New York Giants due to the timing of the decision, NFL Network's Tom Pelissero reported.

Health: Ebola survivors likely to become disabled after a year

Ebola survivors need long-term rehabilitation to keep them from getting disabled, after they recover from illness. BY ADRAMS MULAMA Scientists from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the University of Liverpool assessed disability among Ebola survivors, 12 months after they were discharged from a hospital in Sierra Leone. The researchers assessed vision, hearing, mobility, self-care, communication and cognition.

Sport: Integrity: NFF goes tough on defaulters, warns officials’ appointment committees

“All affiliates of the Nigeria Football Federation and indeed all Football Stakeholders are advised to submit the list of officials that have failed to comply with the directive of the NFF to relinquish one position out of the two or more positions occupied that portends a clear conflict of interest in the discharge of their duties,” read the circular, signed by NFF General Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi. The Nigeria Football Federation on Tuesday called on the Football Associations in the 36 States and the FCT to forward to it names of persons in their jurisdiction who are still defiantly wearing multiple hats in Nigerian Football.

Health: Zamfara decries prevalent of six child killer diseases

Alhaji Yusuf Mafara, the Executive Secretary of the State Primary Health Care Development Agency, expressed this concern at a one-day stakeholders’ sensitisation meeting on breastfeeding in Gusau on Tuesday. The Zamfara State Government has decried the recent increase in the six child killer diseases among children in the state. Alhaji Yusuf Mafara, the Executive Secretary of the State Primary Health Care Development Agency, expressed this concern at a one-day stakeholders’ sensitisation meeting on breastfeeding in Gusau on Tuesday.

Politic: Internal party democracy as recipe for sustainable democracy, by Atiku Abubakar

That in order for the APC to succeed as a party in government and for our democracy to endure, the Party, the Legislature and the Executive must work in concert. They should not see one another as a competitor or rival. At a pre-inauguration retreat for All Progressives Congress’ Senators-Elect at Abuja on 23rd May, 2015 I made the following arguments: That in order for the APC to succeed as a party in government and for our democracy to endure, the Party, the Legislature and the Executive must work in concert. They should not see one another as a competitor or rival.