When will we, the people, free ourselves from our Stockholm syndrome and stop celebrating our captors? With the intensity of the debates surrounding the economy (debate is a big word, all we’re really saying is that something needs to be done, very few solutions are ever truly proffered), it must be pointed out that yet again, we limit ourselves to surface issues and seemingly refuse to broaden the scope of our interrogations. I am not one of those who believes Buhari must stop blaming PDP or Jonathan for the mistakes made in

THE Federal Government, yesterday, said it will fund the 2017 budget with recovered loot and renewed oil licences, even as it targets N10 trillion revenue generation in the coming year.

Stakeholders at the 79th edition of Telecom Consumer Parliament (TCP) have blamed subscribers’ poor application of the Do Not Disturb (DND) code on low awareness among consumers.

As statistics from UNAIDS revealed that a total of 180,000 Nigerians have lost their lives to HIV/AIDS pandemic, Centre for the Right To Health, CRH, has called for the reinforcement of Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV, in schools as part of strategies to halt the spread among adolescents.

ASABA—A Delta State High Court sitting in Kwale has convicted and sentenced eight persons, including an ex-soldier, to a total of 104 years imprisonment for the kidnap of the Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly, Chief Monday Igbuya.

Osun state Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, on Tuesday said that, because of the massive infrastructural projects going on across the state, the citizenry have had it difficult to believe that the nation in general and the state in particular, is undergoing economic hardship.

ASABA—Goods worth millions of naira were reportedly burnt in a midnight fire at the popular Old Cable Market, Asaba, the Delta State capital, yesterday.

A new dawn emerged for the Nigeria Football Supporters Club (NFSC) last Saturday as about 250 registered/authentic members of the club across the 19 state chapters of the country converged on the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos to elect their choice of leaders into various offices of the club. The election which saw the ‘who is who’ in the industry of sports during the most credible and fair election by all the stakeholders present has produced a new National Chairman in the person of former Secretary General, Rev. Samuel Ikpea.

The cashless economic policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has received a boost with the entrance of PayU, a global payment group into the Nigerian market. The payment gateway, according to PayU’s Country Manager, Ms. Juliet Nwanguma, provides a simple payment processing for Nigerian merchants and consumers.

The Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, yesterday, confirmed the death of 13 persons in a motor accident on Malumfashi-Dabai Road, Kafur Local Government Area, Katsina State.