The Federal Government Monday, denied media reports on social media that it has converted Kaduna Polytechnic and Yaba College of Technology to universities.

AS controversy continues to trail the alleged padding of the 2016 budget, some members of the principal officers of the House of Representatives have accused the Majority Leader of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila of being the mole that leaked to the former Chairman of Appropriation Committee, Abdulmumin Jibrin the decision of the leadership to sack him.

Fourteen months after the advent of the current administration, the three refineries belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, are yet to be fixed, with the refineries producing an average of 47,553 barrels of crude oil per day (BPD) over the last one year.

The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) on Tuesday said it would leave no stone unturned to resolve the impasse between Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) drivers and their employer.

The Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr Maikanti Baru, has dismissed reports that the corporation will soon announce an increase in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS). The online media had reported that because of the high cost of foreign currencies, NNPC had concluded plans to increase the pump price of PMS from N145 per litre to between N170 and N200.

A Karmo Upper Area Court in the FCT on Tuesday sentenced a 25-year-old man Yaknan David to two months imprisonment for stealing an electricity prepaid meter.

As someone whose government was overthrown in a coup d’etat spearheaded by his Chief of Army Staff in August 1985, President Muhammadu Buhari must have taken serious time to reflect and rethink measures in appointing General Tukur Yusuf Buratai as his army chief last year.

The police on Tuesday arraigned Sabiu Hassan in a Wuse Zone 2 Senior Magistrates’ Court for stealing a bag of rice and two cartons of peak milk.

The prosecutor, Insp. Innocent Uko, told the court that the accused committed the offence on July 29 at Ajido Bus Stop in the Badagry. He said that the accused stabbed the complainant on the stomach after an argument ensued between them. “The complainant who was a passenger in the bus, gave the accused a defaced-N100 note as his transport fare and this resulted into an argument.

A businessman, Mohammed Musa, was on Tuesday brought before an Area court in Abuja for driving recklessly and crashing onto a car belonging to a high ranking officer of the Nigerian army.

The Federal High Court, Abuja, has said it will not grant any application brought by the Department of State Services (DSS) until all orders of the court are obeyed.

The Stand Up for Nigeria (SUN) has condemned increased attacks on military personnel by armed groups, urging Nigerians to rise in unison in condemning the attacks on the Army in the strongest terms possible.

Three Etisalat registration agents, who allegedly swapped Etisalat sim card belonging to the governor of Jigawa, were on Tuesday arraigned in a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.

Many men in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, have decried that women’s obsession with uniform attire for occasions, popularly called “aso-ebi’’ or “anko’’ has taken toll on their finances. Some of the men who spoke to newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday said that their partner’s quest for “aso-ebi’’ was affecting their economy status.

The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, on Tuesday, reserved its judgment on appeal challenging the removal of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State from office over alleged tax fraud.