The African Union Commission said that blocking illicit financial outflow from Africa and repatriating the funds were important in financing the Sustainable Development Goals on the continent. The AU Commissioner for Economic Affairs, Dr Anthony Maruping, said this at a news conference at the ninth joint Annual Meeting of the AU Specialised Technical Committee for Ministers of Finance and Economic Planning.

Organisers of the maiden edition of the fire safety conference by the National Fire Protection Association West Africa, NFPAWA, scheduled for April 18 to 21, 2016 in Lagos, have reiterated its importance in view of fire disasters and building collapses currently being experienced across the country.

MAKURDI—Two robbery suspects were late Saturday night burnt beyond recognition by irate mob in Ikpa Mbatyerev, in Gboko local government area of Benue state for attempting to rob a businesswoman of her valuables.

Tension is brewing in Owa community in Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State where a Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Aniako Celestine, priest in charge of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Ukana, Udi Local Government Area was kidnapped by suspected Fulani herdsmen Saturday evening on his way from his home town, Ezeagu.

Abia State Government has vowed to prosecute parents and guardians whose children are caught hawking on the streets of the state.
The state’s Commissioner for Education, Professor Ikechi Mgbeoji, who made this known while presenting a paper entitled The Nigeria Child on the Street: Its implication for the Future of the Country, at the launch of “Save the Street Child Aba Initiative” by the National Association of Seadogs Pirates Confraternity in Aba, added that a mobile education court, specially designed for education-related offences, would be set up.

The scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly known as petrol, is bitting harder as Nigerians await the April 7 deadline promised by the Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu to end it. Vanguard photographers captured the frustration of Nigerians in search of the scarce commodity across the country    

Egyptian players are now having the last laugh on Zamalek’s Nigeria-born midfielder Moruf Yusuf after their country sent the Super Eagles packing from AFCON 2017.

In its renewed efforts towards addressing the vaccum created as a result of the removal of history as a subject from the school curriculum, the management and staff of Cyndees International Schools, Ewu Owa Gberigbe, Ikorodu, Lagos, took a practical step recently,when it took the children on an excursion to the Badagry Slave Centre.

A chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Cross River State, Mr Godie Akpama, has said that the appointment of former Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, SAN, and a former governor of Cross River State, Mr Clement Ebri, into the APC Board of Trustees has significantly strengthened the party to get its rightful position in the state.

Thought Pyramid Art Gallery is one of the biggest galleries in the country, and definitely the biggest in Abuja. The gallery which has changed art history of Abuja is the brain child of Mr Jeff Ajueshi, who incidentally is the curator and Director. A native of Oghara, Ethiope West Local Govenment Area of Delta State, Jeff who did not study art, but is now one of the greatest art promoters in the land, in this interview reveals the motivation for establishing the gallery, the challenges, the choice of Abuja and other sundry issues.