FirstBank Limited and global payments provider, PayPal, have announced a partnership to encourage Nigerians shop online across the world.

ABIA State government has demolished a building belonging to one Ogbuonye Ogbonna Daniel, suspected to be involved in kidnapping activities in the state.

Lagos—THE management of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, yesterday berated Lagos State government over recent comments by Governor Babatunde Fashola on the persistent gridlock over the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway and efforts to resolve it.

The Federal Government, yesterday, vowed to mete out severe sanctions to perpetual defaulters in the payment of electricity bills.

The Plateau State Government yesterday, said it had dismissed 1,400 teachers found with fake certificates in the ongoing biometric data capturing exercise.

MAIDUGURI— Barely three days after the Damboa attacks and killings, suspected Boko Haram gunmen attacked the town again and shot dead five residents before fleeing into the forest in Toyota Hilux vehicles and motorcycles.

Irked by the ravaging insurgency that has led to massive loss of lives and property, especially in the north-eastern region of the country, clerics under the aegis of the Nigerian Catholic Diocesan Priests’ Association (NCDPA), have called on members of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram to embrace the path of peace and consider the offer for dialogue by the Federal Government.

The United States Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Office and the Nigerian Police, yesterday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, on Police Training Modernisation.

I don’t think that Nigerians, in their heart of hearts, are tired of living together in one country. Everything points to the fact that Nigeria still holds a very prime attraction for its people because this country gives so much to its citizens.

AKURE—The father of a 20-year-old secondary school leaver, Oluwatobi Badmus, Chief Raheem Badmus, has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, over the alleged killing of his son at ‘B’ Division Police Station in Akure.