Nigeria, yesterday, tabled a catalogue of key projects considered as critical to the change agenda of the Muhammadu Buhari administration to the Chinese Government and pleaded with the Asian industrial leader to assist with funds to carry them through.

A lawyer and Ijaw youth activist, Oweilaemi Pereotubo has condemned in strong terms the illegal and continued detention of the 10 students arrested from Gbaramatu Kingdom, Delta State by the military in search of Niger Delta Avengers operatives, saying it was a gross violation of their fundamental human rights and so, unconstitutional.

An appeal has gone to the management of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to “check the spate of massive manipulation of poll results, snatching of ballot materials at gun point and other crude and stone-age styled electoral malpractices”, as Imo State prepares for the supplementary poll scheduled for today.

Niger State government has informed the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government of large quantity of crude oil in the Bida Basin awaiting exploration.

A former member of the Federal House of Representatives, Chief U.S.A Igwesi has decried the move by the 8th National Assembly to confer immunity on the Presiding Officers of the National Assembly, describing it as an abuse of legislative privileges and self- serving.