INDICATIONS emerged, yesterday, that security agencies in the United Kingdom may have commenced investigation on the suspended former chairman of House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, for allegedly owning and operating multiple accounts in Barclays and other banks in Europe and America.

ENUGU—The two-year-old girl, Chimamanda Olijo, who was allegedly raped and sodomised by an unknown person, is dead.

IN recognition of the important role that they play in the provision of healthcare especially at the grassroots, Traditional Birth Attendants, TBAs, have been recognised as indispensable to healthcare delivery in the country.

POLICE in Enugu have arrested a suspected gunrunner, who allegedly supplied AK-47 rifles to one herdsman, Ibrahim Adamu, who was earlier arrested.

THE Federal Government has proposed a budget of N7,281,361,611,853 for the year 2017. The proposed budget represents an increase of 19.95 per cent over the 2016 Appropriation of N6.07 trillion.

The Nigerian Communi-cations Commission, NCC, has come under very serious criticisms in the past few days over its decision to introduce a price regulatory regime for data services in the country.

There’s almost no better way to introduce this week’s start up and its founder than in the words of Facebook Founder, Mark Zuckerberg. “Last month in Abuja, Nigeria,” Zuckerberg said shortly after his famous Nigerian trip, “I met Godwin Benson. Godwin founded Tuteria Nigeria, an online platform that connects people seeking to learn with people nearby who can teach them.

Those who think that Made-in-Nigeria software cannot compete favourably on a global scale, might need to have a rethink. Just last week, no fewer than 56 energetic and creative young Nigerians with passion for technology innovation had pitched their solutions ‘Hacked within 36 hours nonstop coding’ at the just concluded Delta State open innovation hackathon.

Facilities-based telecommunications services provider, Swift Network and Cobranet yesterday emerged winners of the two slots in the 5.4GHz Spectrum auctioned by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC.

ABUJA—late Oladepo Ifedapo Rachael, a National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, member of the 2016 Batch ‘B’, who died in Kano during orientation, died of renal sepsis occasioned by infection, report has revealed.

OREROKPE—A Nigerian residing in Ghana, who recently relocated to his hometown of Oreropke, Delta State, Monday, went berserk, stabbing a bricklayer identified as Daniel to death, while an unspecified number of persons sustained various degrees of injuries from the attack.

The kidnappers, who murdered a top management staff of Dangote Group, Bello Istifanus Gurama, have said they murdered him because he wanted to cheat them out of N14.4 million.

ENUGU — An Igbo socio-cultural group, Oganiru Ndigbo, has demanded from the federal government rapid response to the ecological disasters devastating the south east.

UMUAHIA—DISASTER, penultimate Tuesday, struck Ntigha community in Isiala Ngwa North Council of Abia State, when a deadly rainstorm struck the sleepy community, destroying goods and properties valued at several millions of Naira.