The Senate on Tuesday began debate on the 2014 Appropriation Bill with the Senate President, David Mark, urging senators to view the budget from a “national periscope’’.

“Let us see the budget from a national periscope and not a political party’s periscope. Let us use a national magnifying glass to view it and not reduce it to partisan politics,’’ Mark said.

Deputy National Secretary of All Progressives Congress APC Mallam Nasir El-Rufai who was detained by the Department of State Security DSS last Monday was released Tuesday morning.

Investors at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Tuesday exchanged a total of 408.135 million shares worth N4.97 billion in 6,349 deals.

The National Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Adamu Mu`azu, said the party would not anoint any aspirant as the party’s candidate.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as quite misleading Tuesday’s media reports that its Senators flouted the party’s directive to its members in the National Assembly to withdraw co-operation with the Executive until the restoration of law and order in Rivers.

Deputy Governor of Enugu State, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi, Tuesday, described the evacuation of his poultry from his official residence in the Government House by officials of the Enugu Capital Territory Development Authority, ECTDA and Ministry of Environment as a wicked act and a clear exhibition of impunity by a power-drunk official of the government.

When Edna, 32, a graduate of English Language, was diagnosed with leprosy, an old but neglected disease. Her world turned upside down.

The Lagos State Government on Tuesday said it had projected a revenue outlay of N466 billion for the 2014 fiscal year

Coach Maxwell Konadu of the Ghana Black Stars on Tuesday said that the respect he had for the Super Eagles Coach, Stephen Keshi, would not distract his team from their objective.

A secondary school student, Kolawole Abiodun, 20, on Tuesday admitted before an Omu-Aran Upper Area Court in Kwara that he stole kola nuts worth N500.

The Catholic Church has appealed to thieves to return a container of the blood of the late Pope John Paul II that disappeared in what it called a vile and sacrilegious theft.

Two of South Africa’s opposition parties, the DA and the new Agang party, on Tuesday in Johannesburg, joined forces and formed the Democratic Alliance.

A lawmaker in the Osun State House of Assembly, Mr Ipoola Binuyo, has commended the Federal Government for banning the importation of frozen products including fish, chicken, turkey and gizzard.

A group, “Coalition for True Democrats,’’ has described the call by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to its lawmakers to stall the passage of the 2014 budget as “selfish an unpatriotic’’.

British lawmakers on Tuesday took aim at Queen Elizabeth II’s household accountants, saying they must cut their costs and tackle a huge backlog of repairs to the monarch’s crumbling palaces.