Guinea, the west African country where the worst ever Ebola outbreak began, is free of the disease, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.

Israel’s top court on Tuesday upheld a bribery conviction against former premier Ehud Olmert, which will make him the country’s first ex-prime minister to serve jail time.

To exacerbate matters, the insubordinate youths, suspected to have link with a notorious kidnap gang, contrived an iniquitous plot with some police officers from Benin City, Edo State, to seize Arienmughara at gunpoint, handcuff and detain him on spurious grounds. The indigenous investor had his right toe pulled by the police officers in their mercantile bid to extort money from him. A friend of the victim, who had fled Sapele, contacted by his scared stiff wife to get him off the hook, joined the security agents to swindle him of N4.2 million.

Indication emerged, yesterday, that the devastated mother of the deceased twin brothers, who were shot to death alongside their friend, weekend, by a drunken mobile policeman, in front of Paulson Hotel in Ketu area of Lagos has refused to eat since the incident.

LAGOS—A Lance Corporal of the Nigeria Army was among eight persons arrested by the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, SIRT for allegedly supplying arms and ammunition to robbers in Lagos.

Contrary to the projections of the World Bank that pegged the Gross Domestic Product growth rate at 3.7 per cent, the Federal Government economic agenda as contained in the 2016 budget breakdown insisted on GDP growth rate of 4.37 per cent thus making it ambitious.
Earlier this year IMF cut its growth forecasts for the global economy on the back of a slowdown in China, looming recession in Russia and continuing weakness in the eurozone.

President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki has described his Deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, as a perfect example for Nigerian politicians, saying that he has no regret working with him.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf was the Minister of Information in the dying days of Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq. Nicknamed “Comical Ali” by British tabloids, al-Sahaf made a fool of himself during the Iraqi war by constantly fabricating victories of the Iraqi army, even as territory after territory fell to the American-led allied forces.

There is a growing wave of discontent among some officers and men of the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) over the decision of the Minister of Interior, Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau to effect a change of the current fatigues uniform of the personnel.

Accord Party candidate in the 2015 National Assembly election in Ika federal constituency, Doris Uboh, has threatened to petition the National Judicial Council, NJC, over what she called ‘travesty of justice’ in her case at the Court of Appeal, Benin, Edo State, challenging the judgment of the National Assembly Elections Petitions Tribunal, delivered in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Mr. Victor Nwokolo.

THE Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in Edo State has commended the state governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, for the prompt payment of workers’ salaries, describing the state as lucky, unlike some other states in the country.

Nigeria’s automobile sector may contribute at least 4.5 per cent of 2016 global automobile sales as a result of the country’s increased investment in the automobile sector in 2015, which encouraged local production.

LAGOS—Two suspected members of a four-man armed robbery gang have been arrested by officers of the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, during a robbery operation at Gowon Estate, Egbeda area of the state

KADUNA—An unidentified middle aged man was electrocuted at the early hours of Sunday while trying to steal electric cable at a power supply installation in Kaduna.

A Potpourri of reactions has continued to trail the proposed re-introduction of toll gates on Federal highways across the country. While built environment experts welcomed the reintroduction because tolling is a universally accepted procurement standard for the maintenance of roads infrastructure, labour unions opposed the move because in the past, proceeds from toll collection were never effectively deployed for the maintenance of roads.