Oil prices have reached their highest levels in the international market in more than five weeks yesterday, as Brent crude increased to $48.74 per barrel, their highest since July 7.

ENUGU——Following the declaration by Pope Francis last year, that 2016 is an Extraordinary Jubilee Year for the Catholic Church, Holy Year of Mercy, Catholic faithfuls in Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State, last Sunday, trooped out enmasse to seek God’s mercy on the prevailing socio-economic situation in the country.

Lagos State Government yesterday said it would soon begin enforcement of the regulation of the mile-to-mile taxi system and eliminate unregistered cab operators, otherwise known as “Kabu kabu” from the state.

There are actually very concrete ways to measure the increasing cost of living in Nigeria which in turn explains why Nigerians are increasingly disenchanted with the Muhammadu Buhari administration. A simple way to go about this is to measure how the cost of common household goods and foodstuffs have either tripled or quadrupled in the last six months or thereabout.

GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike of Rivers state has assured that the national convention of his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP slated for today in Port Harcourt will go ahead as planne

ABUJA— As the controversy over the alleged padding of the 2016 Federal Government budget rages, some current and former members of the House of representatives, yesterday, dropped hint of heading to court for judicial interpretation of the Legislative Houses’ Powers and Privileges Act.

ABUJA— Two days after the Federal Government declared two men and a woman wanted in connection with their alleged links with the Boko Haram terrorist group, indications emerged that the three persons could play crucial roles in freeing the remaining Chibok schoolgirls.

ABUJA — The Presidency, yesterday, announced that President Muhammadu Buhari has received the report of the judicial inquiry into the clashes between soldiers and members of the Shiite movement in Nigeria, led by Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and was currently studying it.

Abuja—The Federal Government has reached an agreement with its Israeli counterpart to use science and technology innovations to drive food security, improve health care and rapid industrialization. The Minister of Science and Technology Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, stated this when he hosted the deputy chief of mission, Embassy of Israel to Nigeria in Abuja, yesterday.

ABUJA— President Muhammadu Buhari; former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar; Governors Ifeanyi Okowa and Sani Bello of Delta and Niger states, respectively, yesterday, poured encomiums on ex-Head of State, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, on his 75th birthday, describing him as a great nationalist.