Chairman of Dangote Cement, Aliko Dangote over the weekend reiterated his plea to the Federal Government to urgently consider the use of concrete roads in the country.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the rash of wild accusations against the APC-led Federal Government has confirmed its earlier statement that the PDP has perfected plans to distract the Buhari Administration from its onerous task of reviving the country’s
fortunes.

Bolton Wanderers’ four-game unbeaten run came to an abrupt end, as they were well beaten by Huddersfield 4-1 on a sunny afternoon in West Yorkshire.

Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson said Sunday no Muslim should be president of the United States, adding a new twist to a controversy roiling the party’s White House nominating race.

President Mohamadu Buhari may have, so far, given the clearest preview of his blueprint for the revival and sustenance of inclusive growth of the Nigerian economy, in a recent interview with a French media house, in Paris. Buhari’s observation on the Nigerian currency was that “the naira has been devalued, as it used to be around N140/$ and now it is hovering around N200/$ and above”. Consequently, the President cautioned that “I don’t think it is healthy for us to have the Naira further devalued”.

OWERRI—Imo citizens may be grappling with a staggering debt of over N80 billion if Governor Rochas Okorocha goes ahead to take the Federal Government approved N20 billion proposed bond issue.

The appointment of the former Chairman, Lagos State Internal Revenue Board (LIRS), Mr. Babatunde Fowler as the Chairman Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) did not come to many Nigerians as a surprise. Fowler had raised the internal revenue of Lagos to an enviable position such that an impressed President Muhammadu Buhari was quoted after his electoral victory as saying he would attempt to replicate the Lagos internal revenue generation model at the federal level.

A 91-year-old woman, Madam Roseline Ololo has notified the Lagos State Police Command of her intention to picket the office of the state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode alongside members of the civil society movement over the refusal of government to return Metropolitan College and Isolo Secondary School to her as agreed.

A World Trade Centre complex is expected to open to the public in Abuja early next year after the completion of the first phase of construction.

ASABA—Delta State governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, former member of the House of Representatives, Temi Harriman and All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in the 2015 election in Delta State, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, have condoled with the Itsekiri nation and the entire people of Delta State over the demise of HRM, the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse II, whose death was announced Saturday.