Individuals are gifted in rather queer callings in life that make them great while living: some are educated to the highest levels and are known for either amassing astonishing wealth and they are talked about by the idle ones that day dream, wishing how they could also be equally lucky to be universally known and popular, perhaps being listed in their local books of record, assuring themselves dreamingly,that poverty will never near their families forever and ever.

It happened in one of the Abuja branches of one of Nigeria’stop five banks. That Saturday morning, a male staff had entered the ATM room to load money into the machine and locked himself as required by standard operational procedure. But when minutes rolled into hours, and the staff refused to emerge from the room, colleagues began to suspect something was wrong.

Stakeholders and professionals in art sector have tasked the new administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to draw up a viable road map that will boost art industry in Nigeria.

Lagos state, the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria has become a reference point to other states because of the transformation that changed the face of the state. This can be attributed to the policies of the former governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, who defied all odds to make sure that the state wears a new look. For a man, who many knew little about before his ascendency to the position of Lagos State governor, the task of changing Lagos was difficult, but he was bent on making a difference and after 8 years in office, the testimonies are there, no wonder people now talk about the old and new Lagos.

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted cloudy weather conditions over the central states of the country on Wednesday morning.

By Levinus Nwabughiogu

ABUJA–President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his administration would rehabilitate the victims of Boko Haram to able them live a normal life.

Buhari said this while appreciating steps being taken by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) and other agencies of government to rehabilitate victims of terrorism and violent extremism in Nigeria.

The president who took a briefing on Tuesday from the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Department of ONSA, assured that the victims would receive necessary support fom the government even as he pledged to end insurgency in the country soon.

Briefing the president, the Head of CVE, Dr Fatima Akilu, said that the department has rehabilitated no fewer than 305 victims of terrorism rescued from the Sambisa Forest by the Nigerian military.

Hinting that non-military approach was running concurrently with the armed onslaught against insurgents in the country, Akilu also stated that a National Security Corridor Program had been created to provide a safe route for those who wish to leave Boko Haram voluntarily, saying that 47 erstwhile members of the group have embraced the program.

She also said that no fewer than 22 women and girls, recruited as suicide bombers by Boko haram were undergoing rehabilitation by the CVE after voluntary repentance.

Meanwhile, one of the objectives of the CVE is to reform terrorists and prevent others from joining terrorist organisations and violent sects.

The Islamic State group has beheaded two women in eastern Syria accused of “witchcraft and sorcery”, a monitor said Tuesday, in the jihadists’ first decapitations of female civilians.

The Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe, has described Prof Ben Nwabueze, a former Minister of Education, as a role model and custodian of tradition and custom.

President Mohammadu Buhari, Tuesday, assured that his government would ensure adequate protection of oil and gas installations across the country to prevent vandalism, oil thefts and piracy.

The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Gombe state on Tuesday granted the request of the APC and its governorship candidate, demanding a forensic examination of documents used during the 2015 Governorship election.

Let me take the first question where you say that my emergence was not the party’s position. We have it on record that at no time did the party say it has zoned this position to a particular zone. Soon after the election, the Party held a meeting at the caucus level.

IT is about one month ago that the new governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi took over the reins of power from the immediate past governor Sullivan Chime at Lion Building.

THE World Health Organisation, WHO, has validated Cuba as the first country in the world to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis.

Domestic petrol production deficit has always been balanced with importation. However, the proportion of the imports has risen in the past few years to a high of about 80 percent or more of national domestic consumption, and this trend may continue considering the claim by energy officials that “there is no alternative to fuel importation”. Besides petrol, some other finished petroleum products particularly jet fuels, domestic kerosene and diesel are also imported. For many years, enormous foreign exchange has been spent perhaps unnecessarily in the name of finished white hydrocarbon importation thus putting avoidable pressure on the Naira.

A member of the Celestial Church of Christ (CCC) Board of Trustee, Evang. Samson Banjo, on Tuesday said that the church did not have a “lawful and duly accredited’’ pastor.