The Federal Executive Council Wednesday approved the final set of contracts for this year totaling N19.4 Billion in road construction, Rail transportation, infrastructural development in the Federal Capital Territory as well as the construction of a one hundred and fifty seater capacity Banquet hall at the presidential Villa Abuja.

A middle age man was Wednesday arrested in Ado Ekiti by the police for an attempted bid to bomb Government House, the official residence of the state governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi.

Three other people were killed by unknown gunmen in troubled Barkin-Ladi and Riyom Local Government Areas of Plateau State early Wednesday just days after 10 people were gunned down at a drinking joint.

An Italian teacher has been sentenced to eight months in prison for killing two rabbits with a hammer in front of his pupils in an anatomy class, the animal protection association LAV said on Wednesday.

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) says it has uncovered a team that adulterates cement in Enugu State.