Gov. Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo on Tuesday announced the downsizing of the state’s ministries from 23 to 13.

Hon. Michael Adeyemo (APC-Ibarapa East) on Wednesday emerged as the Speaker of the 8th Oyo State Assembly.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday docked 14 foreign nationals before a Federal High Court, Lagos, over alleged illegal dealing in petroleum products.

Gov. Nasiru El-rufai of Kaduna State has decried the Indiscriminate parking of tankers along Mararaban Jos, and Tafa Expressways leading to the state.

The Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s reaction to Tuesday’s election of National Assembly leaders as a “great mark of leadership” and a demonstration of the President’s commitment to democracy.

A Director in Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) Mr Olajide Ibrahim, has appealed to the new administration to urgently approve the Pre-Shipment and Export Expansion Grant (EEG) to non-oil exporters. The grant was suspended early in 2015 for review.

In a bid to reducing the rate of unemployment in the country, the government of Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to equip young professionals with intellectual activities and capacity as it is not just enough to go to the university to learn and earn a degree.

The Borno Police Command has confirmed the killing of three suspected female suicide bombers in Konduga Local Government Area when their Improvised Explosive Devises (IEDs) detonated on their way to Maiduguri.

SOME senators opposed to the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki as Senate President, Tuesday, accused the Clerk of the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Maikasua of conspiring with senators of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, against the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

All is set for the grand finale of the Most Beautiful Model In Nigeria contest and the African Designers Concert which holds on Saturday, June 13, at Sheraton Hotels and Towers Abuja. Having concluded the nationwide auditions for the contest, the organizers during the week released the pictures and names of the finalists who will slug it out on the catwalk.

The base of a multi-national military offensive against Boko Haram will cost some $30 million over the next year, the head of a regional security grouping said Wednesday in Nigeria, appealing for help. His comments came as defence ministers and military chiefs from Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Benin — which will contribute military personnel, police and civilians to the so-called Multi-national Joint Task Force (MNJTF) — met in Abuja to thrash out plans to take on the militants.

“It will further increase risk premium investors to require holding the Federal Government bond securities,” he said. He said that the decision of the apex bank to stop banks from selling dollars sourced from the CBN among themselves was expected to further increase the pressure in the foreign exchange market.

Mr Tambari Yabo, the Assistant Inspector General in Charge of Zone 1, Kano, has dismissed insinuations by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) that the police were responsible for the death of Prof. Ahmed Falaki. Yabo spoke on Wednesday in Kano while briefing newsmen on the issue. He recalled that on Feb. 14, the police reported that a gang of insurgents had attacked a police station in Kibiya Local Government Area of the state where they exchanged gun shots with the police.

Mali, which managed to qualify for the round of 16 as one of the best four third-place finishers, is through to the quarter-finals of the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup in New Zealand. This was after a shock 3-0 win in Wellington early on Wednesday over former champion’s Ghana. According to the FIFA media outlet, the Malians owe their result to a trio from Diadie Samassekou, Diedonne Gbakle and Aboubabacar Doumbia.

Senegal, which qualified for the round of 16 as one of the four best third-place finishers at the group stage, joins fellow African team Mali in the quarter-finals. It was Mali which eliminated Ghana earlier on Wednesday with an emphatic 3-0 win. Africa’s fourth representative in New Zeland, Nigeria, is due to play Germany in their round of 16 encounter on Thursday.