Wema Bank Plc, said it will complete a 35 billion naira ($220 mn) private share placement to strategic investors by the end of April and apply to become a national bank again.

COMPTROLLER- GENERAL of Nigerian Prison Service, NPS, Mr. Zakari Ibrahim, has absolved officials of the service in Warri, Delta State, of culpability in last Wednesday’s ambush of an escort team by a kidnap gang. Three warders were shot dead and two suspected kidnappers reportedly snatched in the daylight attack.

Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, has urged Rivers State governor and Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, not to stop standing up and fighting for the people as the Guild will also stand by him for standing with the masses.

An undisclosed sum of money released by the United Nations, UN, to Delta State, one of the states devastated by flood last year, is trapped and might not get to the beneficiaries, as the six-months set out for the spending of the fund, will soon expire.

Nuclear-armed North Korea has a ballistic missile that could hit the United States, the leading lawmaker on the US House of Representatives intelligence committee warned Sunday.