The Federal Government said yesterday it could not give a definite date on when the 2016 budget would be signed, noting that talks to reach a truce between it and the National Assembly on grey areas in the document were still on going.

Peeved by the controversy surrounding his recent submission that there was no sacrifice too costly to make for the fidelity of the change mantra of All Progressives Congress, APC, the party’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, said, yesterday, that his party was not ready to compromise its leadership of the Senate.

SIX contractors, who allegedly played prominent roles in the over N1 trillion railway construction and rehabilitation contracts, are to refund over N2.5 billion to the federal coffers.

AFTER years of mourning the loss of their life partners and toiling to make ends meet, many widows in Imo State presently have reason to smile as they count their blessings, thanks to the wife of the state Governor, Nneoma Nkechi Okorocha. Identifying shelter as an essential need of the widows, the Imo First Lady had since 2011 under the auspices of her “She Needs a Roof Project, SNARP”, built, furnished and handed over more than 172 units of two-bedroom bungalows for indigent widows and orphans, who do not have roofs over their heads

Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, yesterday, described as “wicked and abuse of power,” the refusal of Bayelsa State House of Assembly to swear in the three opposition members-elect in accordance with the ruling of the Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.