“The best three ideas have the opportunity to win an all expense paid training to University of Sussex Innovation Centre in the UK for their spin-off project or business idea development as well as discount in admission fee for an AIESEC internship and mentoring from experts and corporate partners of AIESEC in Nigeria. The partners include, PWC, Impact Your World, among others,” the statement read in part.

Aides of President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, explained why the president did not declare his assets publicly. They said he will make his assets known to Nigerians within the first 100 days of his stay in power in line with his assertions before the election.

LAGOS—The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has admonished the newly sworn in Lagos State governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, to govern the state with the fear of God. This is just as the party described the former Governor Babatunde Fashola’s tenure as a failed period of governance full of propaganda “which can at best score 40 per cent mark.”

Bauchi—A head-on-collision between a Blue Toyota Hiace bus and a truck along Bulkachukwa and Danbam road axis at Busuri village in Katagum Local Government Area of Bauchi State on Saturday night claimed the lives of 13 persons, including the driver.

The Coach Manu Garba-led Flying Eagles started the 2015 U-20 Fifa World Cup campaign with a defeat.

AS inaugural speeches go, President Muhammadu Buhari’s presentation achieved a lot through sound bites that sketched the strands of change while stretching responsibilities change entails. It was a great speech in more ways than a literary exchange. It was a feast of words, an enterprise in creating hope, a labour in extricating change from chaos.

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo have been urged  to declare their assets publicly in line with their promises for transparency and accountability

Analysts at the Financial Derivatives Company Limited have expressed support for the removal of fuel subsidy saying it would reduce the pressure of the exchange rate of the naira and lead to long term appreciation of the national currency. “More importantly, because there is an inflated import bill due to the subsidy scam, subsidy removal will reduce the pressure on the currency and the naira will appreciate in the medium term”, they said in the FDC Economic Bulletin issued last week.

BENIN—Police in Benin have arrested two of the three persons alleged to have raped a 6-year-old girl at a primary school in the city. Police at Aideyan disclosed that they were on the trail of one of the suspects, while the two arrested suspects were currently in detention.

Edo North senator-elect, Major Francis Alimikhena (rtd), has expressed optimism that President Muhammadu Buhari has the capacity to pull the nation out of the current rust and decay which the country has found itself.