ABUJA — CONTRARY to its earlier promise to pass the 2016 budget today, the Senate, yesterday, gave next Tuesday as the day the document would be passed.

URHOBO youths in different countries abroad, under the aegis of Urhobo Youth Forum in Europe, have condemned the recent invasion of the residence of the Unuevworo of Ekpan, Uvwie Kingdom, Uvwie Local Government Area, Delta State, Chief Newton Agbofodoh, by military men in the guise of combing the area for illegal arms and hoodlums.

AFTER participating in many solo and group exhibitions in his country Cameroon and other countries in the world, Cameroonian born artist last week opened his first solo exhibition in Nigeria.

A 77-year-old retiree, yesterday pleaded with an Agboyi-Ketu Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve his 23-year-old marriage, alleging that his wife often starved him of sex.

AS part of efforts to tackle the growing youth unemployment and encourage diversification from over-dependence on crude oil and gas, the Rotary Club of Warri, District 9140, has trained 10 Delta State youths in cinematography, fashion design, catering services and hair dressing.

Erstwhile Director of Finance and Accounts at the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, Air Commodore Salisu Abdullahi, retd, yesterday, disclosed how former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh (retd), within one year, siphoned over N3.9billion from the accounts of the Force.

TOWARDS enabling access to comprehensive affordable maternity services for more residents of Lekki and environs, a 24 – hour Maternity Home has opened at the St. Kizito Clinic, in Jakande Housing Estate, Lekki.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that the revenue from non-oil exports fell sharply by 58 percent to $4.39 billion in 2015.

Worried about the high incidences of non communicable diseases among Nigerians, the Nigerian Heart Foundation, NHF, is researching into the country’s foods and agricultural products through a national summit billed to hold in Lagos next month.

Abeokuta—Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, yesterday, met with the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, and the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, in a bid to broker peace between the two top Yoruba traditional rulers.

LAST week, former Executive Director of the NNPC, Aminu Baba-Kusa, filed a statement of witness at the High Court in Abuja. He told the court that N2.2 billion had been spent on prayers to hasten the defeat of Boko Haram. The money had been released in two tranches of N1, 450, 000, 000 and N750, 000, 000. Not only was the huge sum of money released, the contract proposal had in fact been verbal.

Fixtures involving the three Nigeria Profes-sional Football League (NPFL) clubs with continental engagements have been reschedule to accommodate the return leg of the second round of the two Confederation of African Football (CAF) Club competitions which takes place this weekend. The fixtures didn’t follow the two weeks return leg format and are holding just a week after the first legs played last weekend.

Neymar, Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez were all on target as Barcelona piled more pressure on under-fire Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger by easing into the Champions League quarter-finals 5-1 on aggregate with a 3-1 win at the Camp Nou on Wednesday.

The Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria, CIPM, is set to hold its 2016 Career & Entrepreneurship Fair, themed Owning Your Future, on Thursday April 7, in Lagos with aim of promoting entrepreneurship by providing a platform for potential entrepreneurs and job seekers to access information, opportunities and resources to start small businesses, become self employed and create jobs.

No fewer than 22 worshipers, including the bombers, were killed in yesterday’s early morning twin suicide bombing at Molai-Umarari village, behind the Molai Hospital, on the outskirts of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.