LAGOS—Police in Lagos have arraigned a 30-year-old factory worker, Peter Ekom, before a Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ikeja for allegedly raping an 11-year-old girl (names withheld).

Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo on Monday stated that the federal government was working to provide alternative energy sources through a mix of renewable and nuclear energy to improve power generation in the country.

An ex-convict, one of the robbery suspects arrested by operatives of Rapid Response Squad, RRS, Lagos State Police Command, early yesterday for robbery at Oshodi, Lagos, has said he acted out of frustration.

THE Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will today meet with SystemSpecs, banks and other stakeholders on the tariff for the transactions fees to be charged under the Treasury Singles Account (TSA).

President of Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, Dr. Frank Jacobs, has called on the Federal Government to look into the inappropriate interest rates being charged manufacturers who obtain loans for businesses, saying the development was crippling businesses in the country.

Dangote Industries Limited, yesterday, said its promo of 180 millionaires in 90 days would provide no fewer than 3,783 customers across the country the opportunity of a life time.

The Court of Appeal, Makurdi Division, will this week deliver its ruling on the appeal filed by Benue State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in the last general elections, Terhemen Tarzoor, challenging the judgement of the state’s governorship election petition tribunal.

The Solicitor-General of the Federation, SGF, Mr. Taiwo Abidogun, yesterday, told the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court that the new Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, is yet to assume office.

ABUJA—AGAINST the backdrop of the present dwindling international price of oil, the 36 state governors, yesterday, told President Muhammadu Buhari that if Nigeria must be one of the top economies of the world, there was the urgent need for the diversification of the economy.

ABUJA—President Muhammadu Buhari said yesterday in Abuja that his administration was not in a hurry to prosecute those suspected to have stolen from the public coffers until verifiable evidences were fully documented against them.