An Economist, Mr Uche Uwaleke has said that the recent International Monetary Fund ranking of Nigeria’s economy will dampen the confidence of foreign investors who attach importance to the size of an economy.

Mr John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State, on Tuesday in Sokoto, lauded the efforts of the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, for promoting religious tolerance and understanding among Nigerians.

The United States Secretary of States, John Kerry, Tuesday, in Sokoto said that extremism can’t be defeated through repression or fear.

On the 15th of August 1945, the axis nations fighting in the Pacific theater defeated imperial Japan and two weeks later, Japan formally surrendered to allied forces led by the U.S. General, Douglas McArthur, who formally accepted the signed articles of surrender.

A 56-year-old man, Abdullahi Zakari, who allegedly had sexual intercourse with his 18-year-old daughter, is to remain behind bars pending the perfection of his bail condition, a Lagos court has ruled.

The Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Sadiq Abubakar has disclosed that over 300 insurgents were killed during a night airstrike on Boko Haram terrorists in Borno State.

The Lagos State Command of the Nigerian Prisons Service, has appealed to Nigerians to assist the service with facilities that would aid the reformation of inmates.

The Lagos State Police Command have rescued 13 children and 15 adults reportedly chained and locked up by one Emmanuel Adeyemi in a house at Oke-Ira, Ojodu area of the state.

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the the killing of of 8 people in Zamfara over alleged blasphemy is barbaric and unacceptable.

The Nigeria Police has said that it will subject candidates in the ongoing recruitment exercise to polygraph test (lie detector Test).