ENUGU—Police authorities in Enugu State, weekend, arrested 17 armed robbery and secret cult suspects terrorizing parts of Nkanu-West Local Government Area forcing residents to flee their homes for fear of being attacked.

IT is no longer news that the economy of Nigeria is officially in recession. Did we envisage or prepare for this? I will say yes, given the ‘profligacy’ of the past sixteen or so years and the futile attempts made by Dr. Okonjo Iweala and others in the Goodluck Jonathan government, including the present emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi, to remove fuel subsidy and save for the rainy day that we are now experiencing.

IN my previous capacity as the Chairman of the Technical Committee of the National Council on Privatisation up until May 2015, I canvassed for the privatisation of the power sector, sale of NITEL and pushed for the sale of the refineries and the passage of the transport reform bills before time ran out on the last administration.

ABUJA—President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a former National Woman Leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Sharon Ikeazor, as the Executive Secretary, Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, PTAD.

THE Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has said that his administration is determined to enthrone the rule of law and protect the less privileged.