THE Board of African Development Bank, AfDB, yesterday, approved $56 billion to scale up industrialisation in Nigeria and other countries on the content over the next ten years under its Industrialisation Strategy for Africa 2016-2025.

Imo State Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, says “Ike Ekweremadu’s seat as Deputy Senate President, is now threatened, with the emergence of Benjamin Uwajumogu in the last senatorial re-run election in the state.”

The Democratic Watch Group, DWG, Delta North chapter, has said Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State needs committed party faithful and stakeholders for effective performance, especially towards actualising his administration’s SMART Agenda. In a statement by DWG’s spokesman, Chief Phillip Nkemdi, the group said the absence of such commitment was playing out in Aniocha South […]

Kogi State Government has lost N213,036 billion to ghost workers in 16 years, according to its audit committee.

President Muhammadu Buhari has described former Deputy Governor of Kano State, Senator, Magaji Abdullahi, as one of Nigeria’s finest and result-driven engineers of his time.

EXXONMOBIL the operators of Qua Iboe terminal, which is expected to remain shut in for another month, will see Nigeria losing more than N131.13 billion.

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain and former special assistant to Dr Alex Ekwueme, Mr Ben Onyechere, has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to probe the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and Justice Okon Abang of the FCT High Court over the annulment of the election of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu over allegations of tax evasion.

The faceoff between Senator Oluremi Tinubu and Senator Dino Melaye again exposed the underbelly of Nigeria’s upper legislative chamber as one lacking in internal cohesion.

ABUJA— Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, yesterday, dismissed impeachment plot against President Muhammadu Buhari by the Senate, saying the Upper Chambers alone cannot remove the President.

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he will not spare any member of the All Progressive Party or supporters caught in any act of corruption.

Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator (Dr. ) Heineken Lokpobiri, yesterday, graduated from Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom, with a PhD.

PORT HARCOURT— Magistrates and judicial officers in the country have been urged to promote judicial independence and transparency in the discharge of their responsibilities to the nation.

ABEOKUTA—The Ogun State Police Command has handed over the nine-year-old boy, Korede Taiwo, who was chained by his father, Francis Taiwo, to Ogun State Government.

JALINGO—A senior driver of Taraba State House of Assembly’s Speaker, Peter Diah, is one of the three persons declared missing as a local boat, carrying nine passengers and three motorcycles, reportedly capsized at Ngira village across River Donga in Sadauna Local Government Area of the state.

SENATE President Bukola Saraki yesterday pleaded with warring factions in the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to, in the interest of Nigeria as a country, sheathe their swords.