The ongoing “La Plage” Lekki Business District project in Lagos State has received a N5.5 billion credit facility from Unity Bank Plc.

Saturday, December 11, was a day of hope for members of the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun State.

The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has said over 258,000 people were displaced as a result of flooding this year alone.

A middle aged woman, named Chinyere Njebu, slumped and died yesterday at the food court of the new Domestic Terminal II of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja.

Eminent lawyer, Chief Afe Babalola,SAN, has raised an alarm that the sum of N294 million earmarked by the Federal Government for the take- off of the proposed Ado Ekiti airstrip may be lost if no physical development is done on the site of the airstrip.

Vice President, Arch. Muhammad Namadi Sambo, has commissioned the 66.8- kilometer Gujungu-Hadejia road in Jigawa State constructed at the cost of N1.749 billion, with the assurance that Federal Government will partner with the state government to construct more inter-state and urban roads.

As part of its ongoing scholarship programme across the nation, MTN Foundation, the corporate social investment vehicle of MTN Nigeria, has said that it is set to present new scholarships to 238 Nigerian undergraduates for the 2010/2011 academic session.

GOVERNOR Peter Obi of Anambra State has distributed cheques totaling N872 million to 795 pensioners who retired in 2009.

Ebo-nyi State House of Assembly has made it clear that 70% of names published on Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, website as indigenes of the state in the last recruitment exercise of the commission were false, urging the state government to reject the list completely.

A mobile policeman has been shot dead by kidnappers who abducted a 73-year-old ex-commissioner of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, at Effurun in Delta State.