Human rights activists, yesterday, called on the President-elect, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), who reportedly barred African Independent Television, AIT, from covering his activities, to handle the matter of hate campaign as required by the law.

ABUJA—The Federal Government, yesterday, said it would pay oil marketers N156 billion, out of the about N256 billion the marketers claimed they are being owed.

Parents of the abducted schoolgirls from Chibok community in Borno State, yesterday, reacted angrily to the announcement by the army that none of the abducted girls was among the 293 females rescued on Tuesday from Sambisa Forest by the troops.

Going by the verdict of the Renaissance Capital, RENCAP, and using an adjusted base year to calculate Nigeria’s current year’s GDP, Nigeria’s adjusted net GDP would stand at 405 billion dollars that of South Africa would trail behind at 370 billion US dollars. Other encouraging highlights of the RENCAP African report with respect to Nigeria’s macro economy include the following; a positive debt budget and current account ratios, as well as a general improvement in Nigeria’s overall financial markets’ aggregates.

Twelve-year-old Primary Six pupil, Tijani Boluwatife of Araromi Primary School, Orile Agege, and Sonoiki Idowu of Ikotun Senior High School, Ikotun, have emerged winners in the primary and secondary categories of the 2015 edition of the Spelling Bee competition for public primary and secondary schools in Lagos State. Organised by the Office of Education Quality Assurance, Lagos State Ministry of Education, the competition is aimed at developing the innate skills of the students in the state, creating good reading habits and helping them improve their spelling skills, increase their vocabulary and develop correct English usage.