Minister of Trade and Investment, Olusegun Aganga, yesterday said the Federal Government would strengthen investment pact with Brazil in order to attract more Foreign Direct investments that will fast-track the development of infrastructure in the Nigerian economy.

Kogi State Police Command has paraded 17 suspects in connection with various robbery cases in the state in the last two months. Among the suspects (names withheld) was one man from Ibadan, Oyo State, who allegedly killed two visiting mobile Policemen at Okene.

IT took the unfortunate killing of a pupil, Opeyemi Rasheed, by his classmate, Abiodun Oluwadare, in October 2010 for government’s attention to be drawn to the unsavoury status of the All Saints Primary School at Oke-Ijebu area of Akure, Ondo State. The two pupils had been playing with a pistol allegedly hidden in the school premises by hoodlums who had turned the school’s compound to their operational base when Oluwadare unknowingly pulled the trigger thereby killing Rasheed instantly.

Lagos State Task force on Environmental and Special Offenses (Enforcement) Unit, on Wednesday, arrested at least, 85 suspected miscreants at different locations of the state in the ongoing flushing exercise of criminal hideouts.

Team Nigerian officials watched in awe as yet another hope of a medal frittered in boxing where Russian Nadezda Torlopova pounded Edith Ogoke out of the medal zone.