No fewer than seven persons lost their lives, Saturday evening, when a tipper lorry ran into an evening market near 33 Junction, leaving 13 more with injuries.

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted dusty hazy weather conditions over the central states of the country with reduced horizontal visibility range of two to three kilometers on Monday.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has called on troops serving in the North-East to immediately embark on the final aggressive action and comprehensive sweep of the operational theatre to end the operation against the Boko Haram insurgents on a very high note.

Every member of the Buhari administration who has spoken about the current recession has assured Nigerians that the recession will end “very soon”. Unfortunately, (typical of government in our climes) no one has defined the time frame meant by very soon – leaving the officials an escape route in the event that nothing happens for a year or more.

An agreement between the governments of Nigeria and Morocco, anchored by Fertilizer Producers and Suppliers of Nigeria, FEPSAN and a Moroccan company, OCP will yield one million tons of fertilizer through local production for next farming season. This will be a short term solution that will, by a signed agreement also force the price of fertilizer from N8,000 to a low of about N5,000

Nigeria Women’s Football League (NWFL) chairman Aisha Falode has added her motherly voice to the football house to quicken the process to offset the Super Falcons’ African championship entitlements.

Cross River State Governor, Professor Ben Ayade, has donated 160 vehicles to security agencies in the state in a bid to sustain its status as the safest state in the country.

Rivers State Government has renamed Port Harcourt Polytechnic Elechi Amadi Polytechnic, even as Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, described the late literary icon as a writer who reflected the conscience of humanity and justice in his literary works. .

Ahead of Saturday’s conduct of outstanding state and federal constituency elections in Rivers State, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, weekend, took exception to statements credited to the state governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike, describing his utterances as inciting, provocative and dangerous.

There is widespread low consumption of proteins, fruits and vegetables and increasing patronage of fast food outflets

The Igbo Improvement Union, IIU, also known as Oganiru Ndigbo, has called on the Federal Government to probe alleged killing of 150 Igbo youths by the Nigeria security forces for campaigning for sovereign state of Biafra.

Nigeria’s Paralympic athletes stole the show in the 2016 Nigeria Sports Award held at the weekend in Lagos as two 2016 Rio Paralympic gold medallists, Kehinde Paul and Lucy Ejike emerged the sports man and woman of the year.

Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has urged all senators and other elected lawmakers in the country to make it a point of duty to travel to their constituencies and intimate the people on the progress made so far in the chambers.

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN and the Lagos State Chambers of Commerce and Industries, LCCI, yesterday, mourned former Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Bola Kuforiji-Olubi.