President Muhammadu Buhari Monday said that he inherited a “‎virtually empty treasury” with debts running into hundreds of millions of Dollars and appealed to the media to explain the true position to Nigerians so that “they won’t match on us”.

Retired Maj.-Gen. Ishola Williams, said on Monday in Abuja that the Nigerian army had no business with elections in the country.

An accountant, Sarah Suowari, 39, was arraigned before a High Court in Yenagoa, charged with stealing N25 million from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

At least 20 people were killed Monday when a young female suicide bomber detonated her explosives at a bus station in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, in an attack likely to be blamed on Boko Haram.

Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State on Monday said sustainable economic development could only be built on a foundation of sound education.

Deputy National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Engr. Segun Oni and the National Publicity secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed are currently jostling for a place in the cabinet of the president Muhammadu Buhari as ministers, Vanguard has learnt.

Colombia police said on Monday that a Honduran woman, carrying 1.5 kg of liquid cocaine in her breast implants, was arrested at the Colombian airport in Bogota.

Twitter said Monday it would only consider chief executive candidates who can commit full-time to the company, signaling that co-founder and interim head Jack Dorsey likely will not be picked.

THE Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, has warned that it could resume hostilities should the 8th National Assembly fail to check the ridiculous salaries/ allowances of lawmakers at the detriment of other Nigerians.

A 35-year-old man, Joshua Effiong, on Monday appeared in a Tinubu Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing 25 cartons of Moet wine valued at N2.9million.