Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki today said he has fully complied with the provisions of the law on declaration of assets by public officers.

The National Judicial Council, NJC, has given Justice Mohammadu Yunusa of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, 14 days to respond to allegations of judicial, abuse, compromise and misconduct levelled against him by a group, Civil Society Network Against Corruption, CSNAC.

BARING any last minutes change of mind, a detailed clean copy of the 2016 budget will be ready tomorrow for inward transmission to the presidency for assent.

The Benue Police Commend on Monday confirmed the assassination of the All Progressives Congress (APC) youth leader in Tarka Local Government by suspected Fulani herdsmen.

Police are looking into sexual threats made on Twitter against the one-year-old daughter of Leicester City and England striker Jamie Vardy.

The recently held two-day National Economic Council (NEC) Retreat ended with a number of resolutions. The expectation of most Nigerians is that the meeting will come up with an economic agenda that reflects the change in approach to governance and economic management. The retreat started with a fanfare that looked like some serious economic policy outline was going to come out of it. At the end of the meeting, Nigerians were disappointed with the outcome.

Tomato paste manufacturers across the country have decried the $1billion (N12billion) spent annually by Nigerians on tomato paste importation. Financial Vanguard investigation showed that there is enough local production capacity to meet national demand. However despite local capacity to supply the Nigerian market, importation of the product at dumping price is suppressing local production. As a result of local producers’ inability to cope with the current level of dumping of the commodity via import, over 3,000 jobs have been lost across the industry. Tomato paste is not a prohibited item, but Nigeria manufacturers said, they have the capacity to meet demand.

The National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD) says it has served the Federal Government with a 21-day notice to meet their demands or face an indefinite strike.

Drones could help developing countries leapfrog ahead. Because this could be the next frontier for humanitarian help in tough-to-reach corners of the world.

The Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, on Monday, affirmed that no amount of blackmail would distract him from discharging his functions in the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Perturbed by the rising wave of of kidnapping and other forms of crime in Kaduna State, the Inspector General of Police, IGP Solomon Arase has directed the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge Zone 7, AIG Ballah Nasarawa to relocate to Kaduna State.

President Muhammadu Buhari has stressed the urgent need to ensure that the potentials of Nigeria are harnessed and used for the good of the country.

Global accountancy firm KPMG’s South African arm has severed its ties with a company owned by the Guptas, a family of Indian-born businessmen, according to an internal circular.

The Bayelsa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Monday accused Governor Seriake Dickson of being the behind the crisis rocking the party in the state.

In a manner that depicted worry and anger consequent upon the present poor state of the Nigerian economy, President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Abuja lashed out at the 16 years rule of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, regretting that the previous governments did not save for the “rainy day”