ABUJA—EMBATTLED former Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmunin Jibrin, has written the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption to enable him make a formal presentation on budget padding.

ABUJA — THE Federal Government, yesterday, launched the agricultural sector roadmap, known as The Green Alternative, for promotion of agriculture from 2016-2020.

Nigeria mined a total of 222.272 trillion tonnes of coal, metal ore and other solid minerals from quarrying and other mining activities between 2010 and 2015.

IT all started with my boss Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi who in the 1970s called for the black nuclear bomb. Many people thought his brain had moved from the head to another part of his body.

The Pipelines and Product Marketing Company, PPMC, earned N957 billion from the sales of petroleum products in 12 months, between July 2015 and June 2015, according to data obtained from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

The Area ‘K’ Police Command, Morogbo, has arrested three members of a gang at Ilogbo Eremi, Badagry, Lagos, for assaulting a footballer, Francis Imevbore.

At 15 percent and 23 percent reduction respectively in AIDS-related paediatric deaths over a six-year period, Angola and Nigeria have made the least progress in recent times. Data from the new UNAIDS report entitled “On The Fast Track To An AIDS Free Generation”, revealed that Nigeria has the largest number of newly infected children with 41,000 cases, equivalent to the numbers of the next eight countries combined.

CALABAR—THERE is a new twist in the case of the four-year-old girl at Ikot Effang Mkpa, Calabar Municipality Local Government Area, Cross-River State, whose mother alleged her 65-year-old lover raped in her residence while she was busy cooking, with the police stating the little girl was “indecently assaulted” and not raped.

OKPUJE- RESIDENTS of Okpuje, a sub-clan in Ilueha, Owan West Local Government Area, Edo State, who are predominantly farmers, say they would not cast their votes for any political party in the September 10 governorship election in the state, as long as the five-kilometer road linking the communities in the sub-clan to Uzebba was not constructed.

ABUJA—CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has reiterated that its current economic policies were in the right direction to rescue the dwindling economic situation in the country. Governor of CBN, Mr Godwin Emefiele, who faulted critics of the apex bank’s policies, said the bank was operating the best policies needed to address the present economic crisis in Nigeria.