LAGOS — The Federal Government will raise N110 billion from its bonds issuance next week in continuation of its 2016 budget funding strategy.

Elders group of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Nigeria, Majlis Ansarullah, has planned a free médical serviçes for people in Ogbese, Ikere-Ekiti, as part of its 41st Annual National Ijtema (Convention) slated for Friday, August 5-7, 2016 at the Ekiti State Government College, Ikere-Ekiti, Ekiti State.

More confusion enveloped the Niger Delta region, yesterday, as a key actor in the region, Jude Tabai, said that he was unaware of any discussion between any militant group and the Federal Government.

The Federal Government yesterday faulted recent claims by the US government that at least 20 states in the federation were not safe for its citizens.

LAST week, I published a sad letter I’d received from a Northern Christian from Borno State. He complained about myriad injustices that the Muslim majority had been inflicting on his people, whom he described as a silently suffering voiceless minority. And I, ever-eager to leap to the defence of the oppressed, sympathised.

The World Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad has said that Ahmadi Muslims will not take revenge or resort to violence even in the face of persecution.

LAGOS—Federal Government said yesterday that it has saved about N1.4 trillion that would have been paid as subsidy to oil marketers as a result of the successful deregulation of the downstream oil and gas sector a few months ago.

As the days for the boxing event of the Olympics draw near, Coach Anthony Chukwuemeka Konyegwachie has vowed to get a medal for Team Nigeria from Nigeria’s sole entrant inboxing, Efe Ajagba.

LAGOS—It was the end of the road for a six-man robbery gang that specialised in hijacking fuel-loaded tankers in Ogun State, following their arrest by operatives of the newly-established Zonal Intervention Squad, at the Zone 2 command, Onikan, Lagos.

LAGOS—A 48-year-old suspect, Emmanuel Magbatie, who reportedly raped an 18-month-old baby at 23, Adebayo Street in Owutu area of Ikorodu, Lagos, has denied the allegation.

The attention of Nigerian fans will from today turn to Rio’s Maracana stadium as athletics events of the Olympic Games start, with Blessing Okagbare hunting for an elusive women’s 100m medal.

Ahead of 2017 edition of the prestigious Afro Model Awards, organizers of the awards recently stormed the country in search of Nigerian models who would take the centre stage at the forthcoming edition.

YENAGOA—THE arrest of the traditional ruler of Agrissaba community in Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, His Royal Highness King Walter Agri, by operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, over his alleged involvement in a protest against the Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NOAC, is causing tension in the oil-rich riverine community.

ABUJA— India, Spain and The Netherlands have emerged biggest buyers of Nigeria’s crude oil over a 12-month period, from June 2015 to May 2016, according to a document obtained, yesterday, from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

CHAIRMAN of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, SAN, picked holes in the comments of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara that he could not be investigated or interrogated over alleged padding of the 2016 budget.