AS Muslims celebrate Eid-el-Kabir today, amid dwindling economic fortunes, President Muhammadu Buhari, has saluted the citizenry for their steadfastness, saying that he is making concerted efforts to return the country to the path of economic prosperity.

FORMER Foreign Affairs Minister, Chief Tom Ikimi, has predicted a landslide victory for the PDP candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu that will so shock the APC that the party will not contest the outcome.

Women drawn from different organisations at a meeting in Benin City at the weekend put Mrs. Betty Obaseki, the wife of the APC candidate to task. She was put on the spot over a statement, credited to her in which she faulted past PDP administrations for contributing to the problem of prostitution among the women of the state.

KADUNA—Three days after two men were killed in Golkofa village, Godogodo District, Jema’a Local Government Area of Kaduna State by alleged armed herdsmen, another man was killed in the same village, yesterday, said a local source.

THE National leadership of KOWA Party has sacked the party’s candidate, Mr. Thompson Osadolor for his alleged endorsement of the PDP, candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize Iyamu.

THE  Managing Director of News Agency of Nigeria, NAN , Bayo Onanuga has been bashed on social media by cross section of Nigerians including the 95% that elected President Buhari into office in 2015. Mr. Onanuga is rebuked after his defense of President Muhammadu Buhari and his APC administration’s handling of economy leading to recession […]

LAGOS—The Central Bank of Nigeria through the Nigeria Customs Service has slashed the exchange rate for duty calculations from N316 Per dollar to N306 per dollar.

ABUJA—SENATE President, Bukola Saraki, yesterday, advocated for teacher’s salaries to become an item in the capital expenditure in the budget of states and the federal government in order to ensure prompt payment to beneficiaries.

LAGOS—Policemen attached to the Pen Cinema Division of Lagos State Police Command have arraigned a 46-year-old pastor, Archie Morrow, before a Yaba Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, over allegations that he duped 499 women of N3.5 million.

Democratic presidential candidate HillaryClinton is suffering from pneumonia and was overheated and dehydrated when she quickly left a 9/11 memorial ceremony in New York on Sunday, her doctor said. The incident at Ground Zero, in which the 68-year-old Clinton seemed to lose her footing as she was helped into her vehicle, sparked new questions about her health — and offered Donald Trump a new opening to attack his White House rival.