The Ministry of Mines and Steel said it will spend five billion dollars to reclaim more than 1,600 abandoned mine sites across the country.

Some electricity consumers in Aguda area of Surulere, Lagos, on Tuesday complained about the epileptic power supply and outrageous billing by Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC).

SENATE President Bukola Saraki yesterday thanked his Chief of Staff, Senator Isa Galaudu for working with him.

The Kwara Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed, has called on Nigerians to desist from attaching religious and ethnic colouration to criminality, saying that such expression portends great danger to the unity of the country.

The Federal High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital on Tuesday, has dismissed an Appeal filed before it by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for stale of Execution of the judgment delivered on December 13 ordering the EFCC to unfreeze the governor’s accounts.

The Japanese Government, through Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), on Tuesday donated the second segment of solar power equipment, worth 9.7 million U.S. dollars (about N2.9 billion), to the Federal Government.

Minister of State for Mines and Steel, Mr Abubakar Bwari, on Tuesday said revival of Ajaokuta Steel Company would save about 5 billion dollars annually for the country.

A prosecution witness, John Timothy on Tuesday in Abuja testified that Dr Nafeez Yinus, the first defendant, and Umar Musa, the third defendant in court for alleged connection with Boko Haram insurgents, were not bullied by the DSS to give their statement.

The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Mr Nils Melzer, has appealed to U.S. President Donald Trump not to reconsider the acceptability of waterboarding and other methods of torture as interrogation techniques.

The Chief Judge of Delta, Justice Marshall Umukoro, has advised that the police be stripped of their power to prosecute criminal cases.