Human Rights Law Service, HURILAWS, has said the crucial issues in the nation’s constitution that should be looked at to revive Nigeria’s economy, include restructuring of the political arrangement to strengthen the states and local governments through the devolution of more powers and funding.

AFRICA’s richest woman, Folorunsho Alakija, has remained an enigma of sorts even as she hit international limelight as the woman who beat Oprah Winfrey to the number two spot on the Forbes black women rich list.

ABUJA — There will be no vacancy in the Presidency in 2019, members of the National Caucus of the All Progressives Congress, APC, declared on Tuesday night in a seeming lure to President Muhammadu Buhari to seek a second term.

ORGANISED labour, yesterday, crippled government activities Kaduna State as civil servants at the state and local government levels abandoned their duty posts to attend a rally organized by labour to protest perceived anti-workers policies of Governor Nasir El-Rufai-led All Progressives Congress, APC, government.

Pushed between the devil and the deep blue sea, the All Progressives Congress, APC caucus in the Senate has moved for peace between the two major blocs in the party.

Dearth of reading culture and absence of equipped libraries have been identified as the two causative agents in the rate of failure in WASSCE, NECO and JAMB among our youths.

The National Assembly, yesterday, passed a N6.06 trillion 2016 budget into law, following a motion by the Chairman, Joint Committee on Appropriations, Senator Danjuma Goje, seconded by Senator Andy Uba, thus reducing the President’s proposal by N17 billion. While the President proposed a budget of N6.07 trillion, the National Assembly slashed it to N6.06trillion. The 2016 budget had been trailed by allegations of padding which delayed its passage.

THE Federal Roads Safety Commission (FRSC) appears bent on enforcing the introduction of the Speed Limiting Device (SLD) come September 1, 2016 in spite of furious opposition from some quarters, particularly transporters and members of the House of Representatives.

NO fewer than 1.6 billion people across the world depend mainly on forest resources for livelihood, Minister of Environment, Mrs. Amina Mohammed, has said.

Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has expressed sadness over the death of nine persons in a motor accident which occurred Tuesday at Ezzamgbo- Abakaliki- Enugu Expressway.

Lagos—The management of Babington Junior Seminary, Ikorodu, has said one of the suspects arrested in connection with the kidnapping of the three students has asked the school to pray for him.

THE Nigerian Police Force yesterday debunked insinuations in some quarters that it aided the violent attacks and disruption of the electoral process that took place during the last rerun election in Rivers State.

Federal Government is to establish weigh-stations at the nation’s seaport to beat the new International Maritime Organisation, IMO, law that makes it compulsory for all consignment meant for export to be weighed before leaving their port of origin.

Alumni Association of the National Institute policies and Strategic Studies, AANI, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to ignore the pressure to devalue the Naira, saying “It is time Nigeria diversified the economy to value adding activities in manufacturing in the real sector of the economy.”

THE United States Agency for International Development, USAID, yesterday said it had spent over $240 million on the welfare among others of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) across the North-East.