The bid by Dr Tajudeen Abass to occupy the exalted seat of the Speaker of the House of Representatives yesterday recieved a major boost as his colleagues from the North West geo-political zone of the country endorsed his aspiration.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress, (APC) on Wednesday in Abuja, opposed the appearance of subpoenaed witnesses of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) to testify. The respondents appeared unsettled when the petitioners called the first subpoenaed witness saying they were not prepared to cross examine the witness having been served the witness statement only on Wednesday.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has inaugurated Africa’s largest medical exhibition, Africa Health ExCon, calling for increasing cooperation among African states to deal with health challenges in the future.

A Development Economist, Dr Chiwuike Uba, has criticised the proposed move by the Federal Government to review salary of workers, saying that it would only worsen Nigeria's current precarious fiscal situation.

One of the train services involved in a triple collision in India's deadliest railway disaster for decades resumed journeys on Wednesday, as officials revised the death toll up to 288.