The Senate on Thursday said the country was losing about N4 trillion to illegal mining activities annually and ordered investigation into the development.

Every team serious about ‘change’ starts with a clear identification of the baseline from which it measures deviations/progress. Nigeria has had 16 uninterrupted years of democracy with the PDP controlling the federal government as well as majority of the states. APC is now in charge at both the centre and majority of the states. A minimum standard for measuring ‘change’ is the extent to which APC government beats the record of the PDP in measurable terms. As the saying goes, if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve/change it!

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) said it had degraded Boko Haram terrorists’ logistics, vehicle workshop and a weapon storage facility after successful interdiction missions on their Sambisa forest hideout.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Thursday described his predecessor and Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) as a synergy between Lagos and Federal Government that will accelerate and actualize his administration’s plans for infrastructural development in the state.

Hospital officials in Adamawa have lauded public response to the call to donate blood to victims of Tuesday night blast in Yola. The Chief Medical Director of Yola Specialist Hospital, Dr Bala Sa’id and the Public Relations Officer of Federal Medical Centre Yola, Malam Adamu Dodo, made the commendation in separate interviews with newsmen in Yola.