ENUGU—Three hit-and-run accident victims, Agata Eze, Emilier Ugwu and Roseline Okolo, who were killed last September 2, precisely in front of All Saints Catholic Church,Ibagwa-Nike,Enugu, along T’Junction-Opi-Nsukka expressroad,were last weekend, declared Martyrs of their parish.

ASABA—NO fewer than 400 elderly persons have benefited from a one-day free medical care programme of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Asaba Diocese, Delta State.

Nigeria is among 12 countries in Africa that have posted higher agriculture productivity and stronger GDP growth as well as sharper declines in malnutrition due to early implementation of the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) goals.

A United Nations, agency, Food and Agricultural Organisation, FAO, and private sector institutions in the country predicted, yesterday, that inflationary pressures may still be on the nation’s economy through to the end of the year, contrary to some indicators, which pointed to a waning cost-push consumer price increases.

LEADERS of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and lawmakers elected on the platform of the opposition party, yesterday, gave President Muhammadu Buhari hard knocks over his comments that he inherited nothing from the PDP administrations of former president’s Olusegun Obasanjo, late Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua and Dr Goodluck Jonathan. The trio ruled Nigeria between May 29, 1999 to May 29, 2015 when Buhari took over on the banner of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Buhari made the comment on Monday after attending Eid prayers in Daura, Katsina State on the heels of the economic recession in the country.

While a lot of children are idling away, playing games, and watching movies, their peers have seized the opportunity provided by the 2016 digitest to churn out technology innovations that could fetch Nigeria some billions of dollars as foreign exchange.

LAGOS—Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, have arrested a suspected cultist, who was on a revenge mission along LASU-Isheri Road, Lagos.

It’s three match days to the end of the 2015/16 season and as usual, Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) clubs will be looking to start plans for the next football season.

ABEOKUTA—the driver of a Nissan Serena SUV, marked 25 OGHA, allegedly the official car of a member of Ogun State House of Assembly, has killed two persons and injured nine others.

Nigeria and other Lake Chad Basin Commission members — Cameroun, Chad and Niger— have begun an audit of Lake Chad to rescue the most important body of water in the sub-region.

Ex-Nigeria World Cup star Mutiu Adepoju has admitted his failure to break into the Real Madrid first team was his biggest regret in over a decade of action in La Liga.

BENIN—Edo State Police Command, yesterday, paraded 32 suspected cultists, robbers, kidnappers including an ex-militant leader, General Pere Ojune, who was arrested over alleged possession of firearms.

Contrary to reports, Kabiru Dikko, the mastermind of 2011 Christmas Day bombing, is still in custody, the Nigerian Prisons Service said yesterday. “Please disregard the rumour. He’s still in prisons custody,” Biyi Jeje, NPS’ spokesman, said.

WARRI—A Niger Delta leader, Chief Wellington Bobo, has urged the German government not to sit on the fence, but prevail on President Muhammadu Buhari to engage the people, militants and other stakeholders, in genuine talks to resolve the Niger Delta dilemma.

MINISTER of Information, Culture and Tourism, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said, yesterday, that the present administration was not probing members of the opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, but was particularly interested in investigating those who mismanaged funds meant for prosecuting the war against Boko Haram insurgency.