A Media advocacy group, the Journalists Alliance for PMTCT in Nigeria, JAPiN, has been awarded the Defender of the Girl Child Award.

THE Nigerian Institute for Oil Palm Research, NIFOR, and PZWilmar have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, towards the country’s self-sufficiency in oil palm production in Abuja.

A witness in the ongoing trial of a former personal assistant on Domestic Matters to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Warimpamoowei Emmanuel Dudafa Monday told the Lagos Federal High Court presided by Justice M.B. Idris how he received a total sum of N1,667,162,800 from the former presidential aide between 2013 and 2015 through five different companies.

The Arewa Youth Leaders for Development and Change has expressed concern over what it described as targeted attacks against senior officials of the Federal Government and associates of President Muhammadu Buhari.

THE Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr. Peterside Dakuku, yesterday, said that the agency would be restructured to empower its three zones to ensure efficiency in the performance of its core functions.

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, has withdrawn the certificate of recognition of Eze Anthony Owabie, as the Paramount Ruler of Rumuepirikom community in Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of the state.

Former governor of Kogi State, Capt. Idris Wada (retd.), has congratulated the incumbent, Yahaya Bello, on his Supreme Court victory last Tuesday.

The Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri, has ordered the freezing of all the accounts of Imo State Government and the confiscation of all monies domiciled in them.

ABOUT N30 billion is needed to complete the ongoing rebuilding of residential houses and public structures destroyed by insurgents in Bama Local Government Area of Borno State.

Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State, yesterday, disclosed that his administration will in the next few months inject over N5.8 billion into the state’s economy through the state’s Infrastructure Development Fund, IF-K.

The Immediate past Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP Prince Uche Secondus has charged the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC to do everything to ensure it conducts free, fair and credible election in the September 28, 2016 Edo state gubernatorial election.

Kwara Government said on Monday that it shut down 25 Private Schools across the three senatorial districts of the state for operating illegally.

THE Senate a short while ago spent a few short hours debating the State of the economy. They asked for a new economic team because they thought that the ministers of Finance and Budget were not up to the task of pulling Nigeria out of recession. They recommended the selling of national assets such as NLGN, parts of NNPC; so as to holster up our foreign exchange reserves: reduction of government spending, boosting agriculture etc.

Nigeria’s crude oil production suffered fresh set back Monday as Trans Niger Pipeline, (TNP), which exports about 180, 000 barrels of crude oil per day was shut down as a precautionary measure after a fire was seen on the “right of way” at Gio community in Ogoni land, one of the two pipelines that export Bonny Light crude oil.

The Network of Grassroots Elite for Capacity Development (NGECP), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO),
has urged Niger Delta militants to stop bombing the nation’s oil installations and save citizens from further hardships. The South South Coordinator of the group, Adele Jombai, made the call during the group’s national conference in Awka on Monday.