A young university graduate, Mr Wilson Ekeledirichukwu, who set up a fufu processing plant valued at N75,000, at Ihiagwa, near Owerri, said he established the outfit in order to be self-employed and also create jobs.

At least 240 migrants have drowned off the coast of Libya within the last 48 hours, the U.N.’s migration agency said.

EXPERT in the medical field, Prof. Arthur Onwuchekwa, has expressed worries over rise in the cases of hypertension and stroke in the country.

THE House of Representatives yesterday threatened the Finance Minister, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, Director General, Debt Management Office, DM0, Abraham Nwankwo and Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Dr Godwin Emefiele, for deliberately refusing to give out information on how the N600 billion bail-out fund was disbursed.

THE National Assembly recently transferred the power of the president to control the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, and the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, to itself amid sharp disagreements among the lawmakers. At the conclusion of work on the bill to amend the CCB and CCT law, the legislature successfully altered Section 18 (2) to enable it to confer additional powers on the National Assembly instead of the president.

Crises have been averted between some host communities in Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State and the Fulani herdsmen, following the intervention of Cleen Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, NGO, during a roundtable discussion, where the parties agreed to embrace peace.

IT was relieving to see President Muhammadu Buhari meeting with the 21 Chibok girls alongside their families at the State House, Abuja, recently. The girls were part of more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls who were allegedly held captive since April 2014 by members of the notorious Boko Haram terrorists. According to the government, the girls were released after successful negotiations between the sect, the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, as well as the Nigerian and Swiss governments.

Sixteen state governments are yet to establish a Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, as stipulated in the Pension Reform Act, 2014.

THE House of Representatives, yesterday, directed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to release the list of 66 suppressed state constituencies throughout the country, in accordance with Section 91 of the 1999 Constitution and the 2006 population figures.

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, unveiled plans to collaborate with the Republic of Niger on the purchase of crude oil from the country for supply to the Kaduna refinery.