Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, of Lagos State yesterday presented the 2017 budget proposal of N813 billion to the House of Assembly, assuring that the budget will be judiciously implemented to continue the massive infrastructural renewal and the enhancement of Lagos as one of the foremost tourism and investment destinations in Africa.

The Senate, yesterday, approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s request to amend the 2016 budget by re-assigning funds initially appropriated for special intervention programme, to address urgent recurrent and capital items.

DELTA State Government, yesterday, said it had spent over N32 billion on road construction from 2015 to 2016.

On Monday, November 21, 2016, the newspapers reported that allocations to the Federal, state and local governments had lost N31.8 billion compared to the September figure. The next day, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) disclosed that the economy had shrunk by 2.24 per cent in the third quarter, worse than the second quarter.

A faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Imo State said they embarked on a sight seeing of Governor Rochas Okorocha’s projects in the state and discovered that “Okorocha is just setting a dangerous trap for Imolites.”

Urhobo Youth Leaders Association, UYLA, in Delta State, yesterday, dismissed the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate Group, NDGJM, which announced, Monday, that it was not prepared for talks with the Federal Government, saying the militant group is a bunch of strange criminals and does not symbolize any interest.

A NEW hi-tech glucose meter known as Nova Max Plus Meter, that measures level of ketones in diabetic patients, is now in the Nigerian market.

MINISTER of Health, Professor Isaac Adewale, has indicated the Federal Government’s interest to increase taxation on tobacco to discourage people from smoking as it endangers their health.

The Ogun State government has named one of its model schools located at Isara-Remo after the late legal luminary and Afenifere leader, Sir Olaniwun Ajayi.

THE crisis at the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA, Ondo state, took a new dimension as the school management yesterday suspended 23 workers of the institution for alleged insubordination and disobedience to the constituted authority.

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta, State, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has commended former President Olusegun Obasanjo for the recent advice to President Muhammadu Buhari to rise to the challenge posed by the current recession in Nigeria and that the blame game would not solve the problems confronting the country.

Former Super Eagles coach and captain, Austin Eguaveon has said the Super Eagles have destiny in their own hands as they chase qualification for the FIFA 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Following the disagreement between the Cross River State government and the Ministry of Youth and Sports over the hosting of the 19th National Sports Festival (NSF), there are clear indications that the government of Kano State is signifying interest to host the championship.

Former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, has returned another sum of money (N30m) to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission bringing the total sum he has returned to N134m, this a top source in the commission, last night, said.

Authorities of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, and the Enugu State command of the Nigeria Police have commenced investigation into the suspected suicide by a final year Agric Economics student of UNN, Tobechukwu Okeke.