The Chinese Government has offered scholarship to 24 Nigerians to study in various universities in China, as part of efforts to strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries. Mr Qin Jian, Chargé d’ Affaires of the Embassy of China in Nigeria, said on Friday in Abuja at a send off party organised by the embassy for the beneficiaries.

The Management of one of the biggest Distribution Company in the country, Ikeja Electric Plc, has debunked media report attributing two members of the public, who had been electrocuted after a spark from an electric pole, resulting from a fire incident on Shogbamu Street in the Bariga area of Lagos State.

A Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State has slammed a N100,000 bail on a 28-year-old man, Bimbo Iseyin, who allegedly stole two vehicle tyres worth N15,000. Chief Magistrate Abiodun Etti, who gave the ruling, also granted the accused a surety, who must provide evidence of tax payment to the Lagos State Government.

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP), which brought Nigeria to its present situation after 16 years of locust, lacks the moral basis and the credibility to comment on the country’s economy or condemn a government that is working hard to clear the mess left behind by the disgraced former ruling party, according to the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Oyegun.

Syrian activists have released striking pictures of a young boy rescued from a destroyed building after an air strike in the divided second city of Aleppo.