President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, issued a stern warning to the Permanent Secretaries and the entire civil service that his administration would not tolerate corruption, incompetence and excesses.

AS the military onslaught to dislodge Boko Haram terrorists from the North East gains momentum, troops of the 28 Task Force Brigade, backed by close air support by the Nigerian Air Force, have rescued 61 persons abducted and held captive by the insurgents along Bitta and Damboa axis.

Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, yesterday joined the league of hospitals that offers kidney transplant services following a successful kidney transplant on a 56-year- old man in Lagos.

Plans by a 25-year-old mother of four to sell a one-week-old baby boy, who was stolen in Onitsha, Anambra State, to a barren woman in Lagos, has been botched and the suspect arrested.

Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC Prince Abubakar Audu has promised the people of Yagba West Local Government Area that he would end the alleged diversion of revenue meant for grassroots development.

November 9th, 2015 has gone down in history as a day Nigeria produced two world champions in the games of juvenile football and scrabble. The Golden Eaglets defeated their Malian junior national team counterparts by two goals to nil at the Sausalito Stadium, Chile, to retain the trophy they won two years ago in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

THE Federal Government has so far spent over $823 million (about N162 billion) on Abuja rail mass transit.

BudgIT, a civic organization which aims to simplify government’s finance data for easy understanding among Nigerians recently revealed that Rivers, Lagos and Enugu led the chart out of the 36 states in the country on the grounds of fiscal sustainability performance.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, was said to have slammed a fine of N1 billion administrative charges on Guinness Nigeria Plc for its failure to adhere to the recommended good manufacturing practice procedures.

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bola Tinubu commended Ambode and his predecessor, Mr Babatunde Fashola for being creative, intelligent and making Lagos a model city.

The National Orientation Agency, NOA, yesterday raised alarm of imminent terror attacks on the South-West Zone by Boko Haram terrorists.

CHIEF Whip of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado Doguwa, has denied nursing any ambition to unseat the incumbent Majority Leader of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila.

THE Nigerian Navy in Warri, yesterday, handed over to the police two armed robbery suspects allegedly caught among a gang terrorising night shoppers and staff at the Shoprite mall in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area, Delta State.

FOR escaping from police cell where he was detained, a middle-aged man, Taye Isaac, was yesterday sentenced to six months imprisonment by a Chief Magistrate’s Court, sitting in Akure, Ondo State.

Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA, has expressed grave concern over the recent calls on President Muhammadu Buhari’s government to jettison the National Automotive Policy.