Naira, yesterday, appreciated by 3.52 per cent to close at N315.93 to a dollar at the interbank market, prompting calls for foreign investors to take advantage of the appreciation.

IN a move aimed at dousing tension in the party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ondo State has shifted its governorship primaries till Wednesday next week.

PDP chieftain and the man at the centre of the yet to be finally resolved Abia State political crisis, Dr. Uche Ogah has dismissed as erroneous, the insinuation in some quarters that he is facing a corruption case in court.

A human rights organisation, Civil Rights Realisation and Advancement Network, CRRAN, has written the Chairman, Police Service Commission, Federal Secretariat, Abuja, demanding that N50 million compensation be paid to a child unjustly detained and arraigned in a law court in Enugu.

VICE President Yemi Osinbajo is expected at the two-day Delta State Economic and Investment Summit commencing tomorrow as part of activities marking the 25th anniversary of the creation of the state.

ABUJA— Manufacturers in Nigeria have identified the unavailability of petrol and poor power supply as the main challenges hindering the growth and threatening the survival of the industry, according to a latest survey by NOIPolls.

Lagos—A lawmaker representing Epe Federal constituency in Lagos State, Mr. Wale Raji, has assured Nigerians that the truth about the budget padding would be revealed, as the leadership of All Progressives Congress, APC, has declared zero tolerance to corruption.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, has called on Information and Communications Technology companies in Nigeria to support the economic diversification efforts of the Federal Government, by deploying ICT solutions to the enhancement of agricultural and mining sectors.

The Chief Charles Ezekwem-led faction of the state branch of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Imo State has decried what they called “the gory socio-political and economic situation in Imo State.”

The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja, yesterday upheld the elections of a House of Representatives member from Rivers State, Mrs. Blessing Nsiegbe and two members of the state of Assembly, Edison Ehie and Martins Mannah, all elected on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi Ojaja II, yesterday flagged off five licensed cooperative societies as part of his Widows Empowerment Programme initiated early this year.

One needs not reenact the story of David and Saul in the Bible to find a modern day version in the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai. As the holy book recounted it, after exceptional exploit at war the people chanted ‘Saul has killed his thousands, but David has killed his tens of thousands!’.

Between 120,000 and 150,000 thousand women and girls are living with Fistula and about 12,000 new cases are diagnosed per year.

A 37-year-old woman and primary school teacher, Mrs. Rachael Nworie of Ishata Amanato village, Anioma Isu community in Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi state, yesterday, urged the state police command to investigate the gruesome murder of her husband, Michael Nworie by suspected assassins in the area

The Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria, MLSCN, has said that about 95 per cent of the medical laboratories in some hospitals in Nigeria, as well as private medical laboratories that are scattered throughout Nigeria are manned by quacks and unqualified medical laboratory scientists.