The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has described the claim by the federal government that states are responsible for the rise in poverty rate as baseless and false. The NGF said this in a statement issued by AbdulRazaque Bello-Barkindo, director of media and public affairs. Earlier, Clem Agba, the minister of state for budget and national planning, had accused state governors of giving more thought to flyovers and airports than improving conditions in rural areas. Agba...

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, yesterday said AIDS-related deaths had declined from an estimated 264,463 persons in 2015 to about 51,000 as of October this year. He spoke in Abuja during the commemoration of the World AIDS Day organized by the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) and attributed the decline to due to the ongoing efforts by the present administration to improve access to HIV services. Represented...