President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to attend the forthcoming burial of late Olubadan, Oba Odulana Odugade, who died penultimate Tuesday.

The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday, appealed to the Federal Government to release 23 members of the group in detention even as it raised alarm over the antics of its erstwhile leader, Ralph Uwazuruike. The group alleged Uwazuruike was planning to attack its headquarters in Okwe, Onu-Imo Local Government Area of Imo State in a desperate bid to restore himself as leader of the pro-Biafra group.

The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, yesterday, in Abuja said N387.8 billion was shared among the federal, states and local governments as revenue for December, 2015.

ONLINE supermarket, Gloo.ng has launched new express delivery service that lets customers get their goods within two hours of purchase. The company said this move was targeted to meet increasing market demands as wells as promote the happiness of busy homemakers.

THE lights came on quite literally at the Ikeja computer village recently when mobile manufacturing company, Tecno telecoms limited, donated eighty-eight high end solar-powered streetlights, to the Ikeja community as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR efforts. Addressing a teeming audience at an event to launch the donation last week, Tecno’s Managing Director, Mr. Chidi Okonkwo said the company would continue to invest in a broad spectrum of community-centric projects to better the lives people in its sphere of operations.

THE N300 billion innovation fund released by the Federal Government of Nigeria as seed fund to grow local technology start-ups, is expected to create up to 35,000 jobs in the country. The seed fund will work in concert with the $50 million target seed fund which an investment company, EchoVC, has promised to inject for the growth of African tech startups. EchoVC is the sole manager of the Federal Government’s fund.

Men of the Nigerian Navy and some policemen clashed, yesterday, on the busy GRA Junction on Aba Road, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

The Director General, National Broadcasting Commission, Mr. Emeka Mba has said that the securing of the hosting rights of the African Digital Switchover Forum will add more impetus to Nigeria’s digital switchover project. He announced this at the weekend, during the formal signing of the hosting agreement with the CTO in Abuja.

In an apparent move to hit the ground running, the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu says his main thrust in the new administration is to secure the dwindling economy through import substitution and fight crime using science, technology and innovation. He said the country had suffered setbacks in terms of economic and security development due to the continued display of ignorance by the previous administrations and their sheer neglect of science and technology as the critical factor in achieving true development.

LAGOS State Government said one of the two remaining Lassa fever patients at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, was set for full recovery.

ABUJA — No fewer than 500 mining licences of the 1,400 issued in 2015 are to be revoked, Director General, Mining Cadestre Office, NMCO, Mohammed Amate, has said. According to him, the revocation of the licences is based on non-compliance with the provision of the 2007 mining laws of the Ministry of Solid Minerals Development. […]

Two persons were, yesterday killed, goods and property destroyed when the popular Kaduna Railway Station Fruits Market located in Kaduna South Local Government Area was gutted by fire.

Mali will be eyeing a place in the 2016 African Nations Championship (CHAN) knockout stages when they clash with Zambia at the Stade Régional Nyamirambo in Kigali, Rwanda this afternoon.

THE Federal Government yesterday said that it would soon embark on the recovery of additional $750 million said to be “Abacha loot” yet pending.

GOVERNOR Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has said that the Court of Appeal judgment against him would not in any way distract him from his business of governance, saying that it has rather pushed him to do more for the people of Abia State.