These are the stories you should be monitoring today.

President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday, at the first National Summit on Healthy Ageing, has said there are plans to establish regional geriatric centres at tertiary health institutions for clinical care and extend free healthcare services to Nigerians over the age of 60 years, in line with the declaration of the Plan of Action on Healthy Ageing by 2020.

According to a press statement by the director, media and public relations at the Federal Ministry of Health, the Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, who represented the president at the summit, said the initiatives hoped to extend free medical services to people over the age of 60 years.

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In a statement by the leader, United Kingdom chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ade Omole, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said Nigeria is a leading investment destination for potential and serious investors across the world.

According to a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja, the vice president stated this while launching the (APC) #NextLevel Campaign manual in the U.K.

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Wednesday, urged the Supreme Court to affirm an order of interim forfeiture made by the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court in respect of the sum of $8.4 million linked to the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience Jonathan.

Patience, through her lawyers, led by Ifedayo Adedipe (SAN), argued her appeal before the apex court on Wednesday to challenge the order of interim forfeiture.

She, also challenged the constitutionality of section 17 of the Advanced Fee Fraud Act and other Fraud related offences Act, which was relied on by the Federal High Court t to issue the order of interim forfeiture.

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The Nigerian Police, Lagos Command, has described as misplaced, a tweet credited to the head of the Police Complaint Rapid Response Unit, Abayomi Sogunle, that having sex in a car is not a criminal offence.

The Command ’s spokesperson, Chike Oti said it was an indecent act to have sex in a car in a public place not only in Lagos but in the entire country.

He added lovers who engaged in sexual activities in vehicles parked in public places, under Lagos laws, were liable to between two and three years’ imprisonment upon conviction.

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The Nigerian Army has organised a private burial which would take place in Maiduguri, Borno, on Friday, for the officers and soldiers killed during terrorist attacks – by Boko Haram – on Nigerian Army 157 Task Force Battalion in Metele, Borno, in November, Punch reports.

“I was invited for the burial of my husband with a few others this Friday in Maiduguri, Punch quotes one of the widows as saying.

“Sincerely, we don’t even know how many will be buried and the army is not giving us any information.”

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And stories from around the world…

U.K. Prime Minister, Theresa May has won the backing of her party to stay on – but more than a third of Conservative MPs voted against her.

Tory MPs rejected a no-confidence motion in the embattled prime minister’s leadership by 200 votes to 117 on Wednesday night, after a swift contest that exposed the bitter split in her party over Brexit.

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Pope Francis has removed Australia’s most senior Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, from his inner circle in a restructure of his Council of Cardinals.

Pell’s position as the financial controller of the Vatican makes him the third most powerful person in the Vatican. He is facing prosecution in Australia for historical sexual offences and has taken leave from the position. Pell has vehemently denied the allegations.

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Nancy Pelosi has all but assured her ascent to the Speaker of the House after striking a deal with a rebellious group of Democratic lawmakers demanding fresh faces in leadership, Guardian UK reports.

The agreement, which she announced Wednesday, was the latest and perhaps most consequential hurdle that the Democratic leader from California has cleared in her bid to reclaim the speakership, a post that is second in line to the presidency.

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More than 200 women have accused Brazil’s most famous medium and spiritual healer, João Teixeira de Faria, of sexual abuse in a case that is becoming the country’s first major post-#MeToo scandal.

João, 76, known as João de Deus, or John of God, has attended Brazilian presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Dilma Rousseff and Michel Temer, pop stars and celebrities. But in television interviews broadcast on Friday, four women alleged sexual abuse – and then the floodgates opened: prosecutors have now received more than 200 complaints.

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Tanzania‘s President, John Magufuli has signed a deal for the construction of a hydro-electric power plant in one of East Africa’s best-known game reserves, amid criticism from environmentalists.

The deal, worth $3 billion (£2.4 billion), envisages the construction of a dam on the Rufiji River in the Selous Game Reserve.

Tanzania says the project will double its total power supply. But conservationists warn that it will destroy wildlife habitat.