OPEC agreed, Wednesday, to cut its oil output for the first time since 2008, with Saudi Arabia softening its stance on arch-rival Iran amid mounting pressure from low oil prices.

Abuja—Justice A. Umar of an Abuja High Court sitting in Maitama, yesterday, granted N100 million bail to a former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Usman Jibrin (retd), and two others, who are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over alleged conspiracy.

THE House of Representatives, yesterday, suspended ousted Chairman, Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, for 180 legislative days and also barred him from holding any public office within the period

LAGOS—A Lagos State High Court, sitting in Ikeja, yesterday, sentenced a school bus driver, Godwin Etute, to death by hanging for the murder of a co-employee, Tolulope Adisa, with a screwdriver.

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lagos—As this year’s World Heart Day holds tomorrow, Cardiologists have raised alarm over imminent epidemic of heart failure among Nigerians even as the World Heart Federation, WHF, called for action to prevent 80 percent of premature deaths from Cardiovascular Diseases, CVDs annually.

MAIDUGURI—Borno State has lost its Commissioner for Environment, Alhaji Waziri Imam, following which Governor Kashim Shettima ended his relocation to Bama and inspection of reconstruction work in destroyed communities after his visit to Chibok, Gwoza, Askira-Uba and Damboa Local Government areas, all in southern Borno.

FIVE bright Nigerian students have received the ultimate award for being the best graduating students in their respective universities.

ADMINISTRATORS of schools have been urged to imbibe global best practice in employing teachers, adding that to get the best for our children, trained teachers and passionate graduates are those who can deliver qualitative education to students.

Bauchi—World Health Organisation, WHO, has said no fewer than 1,472 cases of non-compliance to polio immunisation was reported in Bauchi State this month.