Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki on Wednesday said that the ineffective implementation of past budgets and abandonment of projects have led to wastages that have negatively affected the nation’s economy in the last 16 years.

A total of 5,011,290 vehicles and personal licenses were registered in the 36 states of Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja between 2013 to 2015, the National Bureau of Statistics has said.

The Minister of Communications, Barr. Adebayo Shittu, says he is prepared to upgrade NIPOST facilities across the country to serve Nigerians better in line with the Change Agenda of President Mohammadu Buhari.

Dangote Group, Nigeria’s largest company, is struggling with a constricted supply of foreign-exchange in the country and is relying on its international cement operations and export-credit agencies to get around the shortage, reports BloombergBusiness.

The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma has made a passionate appeal to the National Assembly to work hard and ensure that 30 per cent of the 2016 budgetary provision is committed to capital projects and avoid the 2015 budgetary mistake of committing only 10 per cent to that component.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday appointed Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka and Mr. Rasheed Gbadamosi as Co-Chairmen of the Lagos at 50 Planning Committee, just as he expressed optimism that the celebration will go a long way to showcase Lagos in its full splendor. The Committee also has 10 others as members, including Hon. Habeeb Fasinro, Chief Olawale Cole, Mrs. Sarah Boulos, Mr. Abimbola Obafunwa, Prof (Mrs) Senapon Bakare, Mrs. Chika Balogun, Mr. Folarin Coker, Prof. Ademola Abass, Bolanle Austen Peter and Mrs Olufunmilayo Balogun as Secretary.

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, Paris Saint Germain’s Qatari owners and a Chinese group are among investors looking at purchasing a majority stake in David Beckham’s Major League Soccer team, the Miami Herald reported.

Nigerians are the most romantic people in Africa, beating out other online customers in global money transfer leader Transfast’s Valentine’s Day survey.

More than 60 people were killed by a twin suicide bomb attack at a camp in northern Nigeria for people displaced by an insurgency of the jihadist Boko Haram group, a military and emergency official said on Wednesday.

The Federal Government has projected rise in the country’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, growth to 4.2 percent by 2017.

The introduction of latest version of Palmchat 5.1.4 social app by Tecno Mobile is expected to boost relationships, especially this Valentine season. The messaging app tailored for Africa which is taking mobile networking and experience to the next level, according to Mounir Boukai, the Director, Business Development, Afmobi will change the way people chat in the social media platform.

A candidate in Uganda’s presidential elections has promised to repatriate the remains of the former dictator, Idi Amin, and build a museum in his honour.

I AM really grateful to God for our dearest President Muhammadu Buhari. He is God-sent. Honestly, I love that man. Hmm! Only God knows where we would have been now if not for this man as our leader!” said Goke, a passenger in the Apapa-bound commuter bus almost in a sing-song voice this Monday morning rush hour.

Call it a visit of shocking discovery, you will not be wrong. Indeed this was the experience of the Health Services Committee of the Lagos State House of Assembly when it paid an unscheduled visit to the Lagos State Cardiac and Renal Centre in the premises of Gbagada General Hospital. The centre was yet to commence full operation as most equipment are not functioning almost a year since its commissioning by the immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) says the ongoing anti-graft war by President Muhammadu Buhari is not hindering governance.