The Borno State government said yesterday it was working on plans to re-open major highways linking Maiduguri to other parts of the state.

The National Assembly leadership has been thrown into a quandary over allegation of plagiarism made against the head of its training institute, the National Institute for Legislative Studies, NILS, Dr. Ladi Hamalai.

Chief Inengite Nitabai, the family head and foster father of former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, was abducted by seven gunmen yesterday in Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

Emmanuel Amu-neke has been promoted to coach the Nigeria U-20 team by the Nigeria Football Federation while it remained silent on the fate of the team’s coach Manu Garba.

LAGOS— The naira, yesterday, depreciated further to N385 per dollar in the parallel market as demand for foreign exchange intensified.

DURING Governor AbdulFatai Ahmed’s first term in office, between 2011 and 2015, an Audit Query was issued on the huge sums of money that Kwara state had hemorrhaged, through the incredible spending on such “bottomless pit” institutions like Bukola Saraki’s Zimbabwe Farms (‘domesticated’ as Shonga Farms); Advanced Diagnostic Center and the International Aviation College.

TOP Seeded Hamburg based Female Table Tennis Player Funke Oshonaike has lamented the inability of the Ministry of Youth and Sports to adequate-ly fund the Table Tennis Federation, so that top seeded players can continue to contribute to the growth of the sport.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has held that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has statutory powers to investigate former President Goodluck Jonathan’s Special Adviser on Niger Delta and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, Dr. Kingsley Kuku, over alleged financial impropriety.

Former Spokesperson of the Department of State Service, DSS, Marilyn Ogar, has dragged the Federal Government before the National Industrial Court, NIC, sitting in Abuja, over the abrupt termination of her employment by the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration.

ABUJA—THE House of Representatives, yesterday, called on the executive to utilise the N350 billion Natural Resources Fund, NRF, as a finance window for the development of the solid mineral sector.

Police detectives in Ondo State have arrested a 42-year-old man, Samuel Omosaba, for allegedly beheading his three-year-old niece for ritual.

Abuja—Justice Abubakar Sadiq Umar of the FCT High Court, sitting in Maitama, Abuja, yesterday, refused to stop further hearing on a suit filed by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against former Minister of Aviation, Babalola Borishade, and four others as prayed by the defendant’s counsel.

lagos—Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo of an Ikeja high court yesterday refused to quash the N1.5 billion fuel subsidy fraud charge filed against the son of the late Ibadan business man, Alao Arisekola, Abdullahi and two others.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari easily provides a good example of a living realist who sees, and appreciates, things as they really are, devoid of all unnecessary niceties.

The refusal by the outgoing executive secretaries of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, Mr. Farouk Ahmed, and his Petroleum Equalisation Fund (Management) Board, PEFMB counterpart, Mrs. Asabe Asmau Ahmed to hand over, is causing a tumult in the agencies.