The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has approved the request by Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) to provide financial accommodation to State Governments to enable them pay the backlog of salaries of their workers.

The Police in Festac division, Lagos State, recently, rescued a toddler from an unidentified insane woman who was roaming the streets with the baby. The middle-aged woman was carrying two polythene bags and was seen with the toddler who was sometimes clothed and at other times, left naked.

Ten suspected Boko Haram members went on trial in Chad on Wednesday over their alleged roles in twin attacks that killed 38 people in the capital N’Djamena in June. It was the first Chadian trial involving the Nigeria-based Islamist group, which has in the past months stepped up attacks and suicide bombings in Nigeria and the neighbouring countries of Cameroon, Chad and Niger.

The Director General, Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), Aminu Diko, on Wednesday, disclosed that the Federal Government is scrutinizing the contract cost and conditions surrounding the Second Niger Bridge project.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday stated that efforts were being made to accommodate Nigerians living abroad in voting exercise during general elections.

The Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal on Wednesday affirmed the verdict of the Lagos State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal which upheld the declaration of Akinwunmi Ambode as the winner of the April 11, 2015 governorship election in Lagos State.

Two television journalists were shot and killed in Virginia on Wednesday morning while conducting a live television interview, their station, WDBJ7 said.

SENATE  Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions at its sitting, Wednesday, to hear a petition against the Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde  over allegation that the Commission fraudulently diverted over N1trillion proceeds of corruption recovered by the anti-graft agency,  walked out the Representatives of the Commission.

Detectives from the State Intelligence Bureau, SIB, is currently investigating how a pastor in his early 50’s connived with a renowned Lagos car dealer (names withheld) to falsify documents and defrauded a new generation Bank.

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, Wednesday, said the state was looking towards partnership in agro business in an effort geared towards ensuring food security in the state.