An agro-businessman, Alhaji Sani Dangote, has advised the Federal Government to put in place fresh policies that will bring lasting solution to the problem of smuggling of agricultural products into the country.

Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr has advised cash-strapped Nigeria Football Federation to get ready to splash big bonuses on the Eagles in their remaining qualifying matches for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Fenerbahce will offer Nigerian international striker Emmanuel Emenike to Sunderland according to Turkish sports newspaper Fanatik.

THE Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday, said that the manufacturing sector expanded in December for the first time in eleven months, signalling recovery from the economic which prevailed in 2016.

Defending champions Ivory Coast have been given extra financial support for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations finals.

AYAKOROMO community in Burutu Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday, raised the alarm over an alleged plan by suspected herdsmen to encroach into the riverine community and forcefully appropriate land for grazing.

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, have shifted their battle over the credibility of the last re-run election won by Senator Magnus Abe in Rivers South East senatorial district, to the election tribunal.

Nigerian seismologists are all agreed that Nigeria is no longer an earthquake-free zone (aseismic) as previously believed following the series of earth tremors in different parts of the country in recent times.

THE Lagos State Government, through its Pension Commission, LASPEC, has disbursed N170 million as payment of insurance benefits to the named beneficiaries of deceased employees.
Director-General, DG, LASPEC, Mrs. Folashade Onanuga disclosed this at the 2016 Senior Citizens/Pensioners Day celebration, in Ikeja.

THE Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, yesterday, directed six directors of Transglobe Investment & Finance Company Limited to appear before it for an alleged unresolved complaints by investors worth more than N300 million against the company.

A member of the House of Representatives, Oghene Egor, has said oil production of 2.2 million barrels per day projection in the 2017 budget estimate was unrealistic.

Ghana coach Avram Grant was tasked to go and do well at the 2015 Afcon in Equatorial Guinea and win the trophy in 2017 when he was unveiled in 2014 as Ghana coach.

THE Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, has removed Diamond Bank Plc, Fidelity Bank Plc and Sterling Bank Plc from the NSE 30 index following the bi-annual review of the indices.

In a bid to boost capacity to combat crime in Aba and environs, the Abia State government has donated security gadgets worth N50 million to the Police in the city.

FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday, said the Ijaw ethnic nationality suffered the worst neglect and underdevelopment in Nigeria, saying, “our case is worse than that of the almajiris up North.”