PENSIONERS in the country, under the aegis of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners, NUP, yesterday, told the Federal Government not to spend the bailout funds from the Paris Club on bogus projects.

THE Federal Government has said it will deploy science and technology to end food scarcity in Nigeria.

Enugu State command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has busted a notorious marijuana syndicate operating in Awgu Local Government Area of the state, leading to the confiscation of 233 bags of cannabis.

The free education mantra, which brought the Rochas Okorocha administration into power, may have hit a brickwall, following the reintroduction of various fees and levies in Imo State University, IMSU, Owerri.

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has lamented the menace of gully erosion threatening the South-East, and in particular, his state and appealed for urgent intervention by the Federal Government.

A Federal High Court in Maiduguri, Borno State, has ordered the National Trail Newspaper, an Abuja-based weekly tabloid, and its Editor-in-Chief, Chief Inuwa Bwala, to pay Yusuf Dikko N6 million, being damages for false publication and illegal detention

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has tasked members of the national and state assemblies to look beyond the objectives of making laws and focus on issues and steps that would enhance the socio-economic well being of Nigerians and remove the burden of the current economic recession, as Nigerians are preparing for the end of the year.

Lloyds of London, the world’s leading insurance market, yesterday warned Nigerian airline operators that it might be forced to blacklist Nigerian airlines due to failure of some operators to pay their premiums to the insurer regularly.

Federal Government has approved a 50-yr concession for Ibom Deep Sea Port (IDSP) to help attract investors, as stakeholders have declared the project most viable in the West and Central African region.

Mr. Olawale Oladepo, a retired Sanitary Inspector and the father of late Ifedolapo Oladepo, a youth corps member, who died in Kano while undergoing orientation at the National Youth Service Camp, NYSC camp, insisted that the untimely death of his daughter was allegedly caused by negligence of the NYSC.

Isiaq Ajibola, a journalist, media entrepreneur and astute businessman, was at one-time Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer at Media Trust Group, publishers of the Daily Trust Newspapers, who now runs a media consulting outfit, CBD Edge Communications Limited. Ajibola, studied Economics at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and also bagged Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the same institution. Determined to see to the success of the journalism profession, the media tycoon would this week, present his latest offering to the Nigeria people: A book entitled, “Journalism and Business: My Newspaper Odyssey” , a detailed account of the business side of the noble profession.

Chairman of Zinox Group, Mr. Leo Stan Ekeh yesterday said that lack of humility has remained a very big obstacle among young Igbo people.

For the eighth consecutive time, Nigeria’s national female football team, the Super Falcons, affirmed their superiority on the continent at the recently concluded African Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCON) where they beat Cameroon in the final. It was a record-setting victory for the team handler, Miss Florence Omagbemi, who won the trophy as a player and a coach. The coveted Cup is indeed a Christmas gift to our soccer- loving nation.

THE Yoruba Council of Elders,YCE, has called for the adoption of fiscal federalism in Nigeria as a viable way out of the current economic crisis in the country, noting that a review of the revenue allocation formula was necessary.

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sued the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Sakari, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, “over failure to give account of the spending of N500 billion as running cost between 2006 and 2016, and the monthly income and allowances of each Senator and member”.