LAGOS – Controller of Prisons, in charge of Planning, Research and Statistics, Prison Headquarters, Abuja, Dr Ifediorah Orakwe, yesterday, blamed the problems of the prisons in the country on corruption.

About 300 out of the estimated 500 Boko Haram members have so far been apprehended by the security agencies across the country, a Presidency source said yesterday.

LAGOS – FIVE workers of APM Terminals, who suffered various degrees of injury, have accused the management of abandoning them to die of neglect.

Those who are familiar with Arigbanla community in Agege Local Government Area of Lagos State would have noticed recent remarkable changes in this densely populated area.

LAGOS—Efforts by former Managing Director of Bank PHB, Mr. Francis Atuche, to stop his trial over alleged fraud, suffered a setback, yesterday, as an Ikeja High Court judge rejected his application to disqualify herself.

THE Ondo State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has accused the State Government of stifling the opposition in the state.

THE Ogun State Government has announced names of members of visitation and fact- finding panels for its tertiary institutions.

Chief Harry A.P. Nwana, renowned trade unionist and activist, has died in Lagos at the age of 85.

Chief Nwana was a member of the media family having maintained a column “BY THE WAY” in Vanguard newspaper for several years.

“Some of you may recall that on the 20th of April, 2010, the National Economic Council under my leadership approved the setting up of a National Sovereign Wealth Fund to secure Nigeria’s future growth. It was further approved that $1 billion be set aside for the fund as seed money.

Investors’ funds totaling N29.68 billion went down the drain, yesterday, as the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, delisted the shares of the three nationalised banks — Afribank Nigeria Plc, Spring Bank Plc and Bank PHB Plc.