The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved 600 million dollars loan as the first tranche of a one-billion-dollar budget support to help finance Nigeria’s economic governance, diversification and competitiveness programme.

AFTER successfully exporting Ugu vegetable to some European countries, which yielded about N5 million British pounds for the state, Anambra State government said, yesterday, that it had received another order from the United Kingdom for scent leaf, popularly called Nchuanwu.

The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has advised Nigerians to seek repentance from God, saying it’s the solution to get out of the biting economic recession.

It is saddening to note that the ways and manners half baked information on media are lifted without proper information and inquiry, then proceed to feed the populace with same is becoming a trend in the Nigeria media outfit especially social media and some blogging sites.

President Muhammadu Buhari has given approval to the Ministry of Solid Minerals and Steel Development to engage revenue consultants to collect all outstanding fees and royalties accruable to the government from mining operations with immediate effect.

Worried by the deplorable conditions under which children of poor parents attend classes beneath trees for lack of classrooms, Minister of State for Education, Prof. Anthony Anwukah, has tasked State Governments across the country to, as a matter of urgency, access the over N41bn made available to them by the Federal Government through the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) to improve on education infrastructure at that level.

There is no civilised society that will allow a judge accused of involvement in judicial corruption to continue to hear and determine cases while he has not cleared himself of the allegation

Former Super Eagles goalkeeper trainer, Ike Shorunmu says the team will dearly miss the services of goalkeeper, Carl Ikeme but insists Nigeria can beat the Desert Foxes of Algeria in the upcoming 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier in Uyo without him.

The Southern Nigeria Peoples Mandate, SNPM, a human rights organization has drawn the attention of the Federal Government towards total infrastructural decay of federal roads in the South-east and South-south regions of the country.

Algerian Football Federation has announced that Adam Ounas will take no part in the November 12 FIFA World Cup qualifier against the Super Eagles after picking up an injury while in action for Bordeaux.