Residents of Gbaji-Seme, a border community in Badagry West Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, has asked the Federal Government to allocate to them at least 10 percent of the total annual revenue collected from Seme Border, to facilitate community development.

A total of N738 billion worth of agricultural products were imported into the country in the first quarter of 2015, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in its latest foreign trade reports. Agricultural imports increased by N132.1 billion or 21.8 percent from N606 billion in Q1 2014 to N738 billion in Q1 2015, the data show.

“At the CBN, we are doing a lot of things to promote resource efficiency, energy efficiency. We thing I can proudly tell you is that we have connected to the national grid. Before we were running on generators but now we have connected to the National Grid, so our generators are no longer running 24/7. Secondly, we are also in terms of energy efficiency, we shut down systems at certain periods rather than leaving the system running 24/7- apart from essential systems. We are also using energy efficient bulbs.

The Nigerian Academy of Education, NAE, weekend, attributed the inability of the academia to carry out successful academic research work to poor funding of the education sector in the country.

Acrimony arising from the initial rejection of the election of Senator Bukola Saraki as Senate President by All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, deepened among his countrymen in Kwara State.