THE Senate, yesterday, said the ongoing recession in the country will soon be overcome through a number of life-changing laws that the National Assembly will soon put in place in the ongoing year.

LEADER of the Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, has called on the Federal Government to condemn the killings in Southern Kaduna, faulting government’s seeming indifference on the issue.

SENATOR Gershom Bassey, who represents the Southern Senatorial district of Cross River State, weekend, said the priority of the Senate and the Presidency was how to take the country out of the current recession in the first quarter of this year.

The moribund Ajaokuta Steel Company has been allocated N6.2 billion of the N23.2 billion allocated to the Federal Ministry of Mining and Steel Development.

AS we welcome 2017 with fanfare in our groovy culture of extravagance, spending more than what we earn, many spend new year in wasteful ventures. In celebrations, we indulge in unethical conducts that sometimes lead to death. Every new year comes with its pattern of celebrations that attracts hoodlums who are lured to rape, steal and maim innocent citizens. New Year celebrations have become a season prostitutes lure men to slaughter abattoirs in quest of fleecing vanity.

Fighter pilots of the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, who flew sorties and dropped ammunition payloads on the Boko Haram enclave of Sambisa Forest have told Vanguard that the deployment of several aircraft types by NAF with ‘night vision and interdiction capabilities’ caused severe damage on capabilities of the terrorists, leading to the down fall of Camp Zero.

THE NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, and National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, yesterday, said that 2016 was the toughest and most difficult for Nigerians, especially workers in the last 30 years.

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, yesterday, dismissed rumours of a strained relationship with the acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Ibrahim Magu, saying that there was no rift between them.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, has called on traditional rulers across Nigeria to rally their subjects behind the current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The Nigerian Army, in an operation carried out in four camps operated by cultists in Uju community, Ogba Egbema Ndoni Local Government Area, River State, recovered one AK-47 assault rifle and uniforms belonging to DSP Mohammed Alkali and his police orderly, allegedly beheaded by cultists.

Ex-international, Jonathan Akpoborie has revealed that the country’s football requires total re-jigging if the various national teams must create a successful impact in 2017.

There was pandemonium in the early hours of yesterday, when 25-year-old Monday Udeme was beaten up for defiling his best friend’s six-year-old daughter at their King Duke Street residence in Calabar South Local Government Area, Cross River State.

Singing Isaac Watts hymn, “Our God, Our Help in Ages Past,” were the former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon; Former President Olusegun Obasanjo; Former Chairman of Nigeria Interim Government, Ernest Shonekan, Former Vice President Alex Ekwueme; Former Chief of Staff, Real Admiral, Ebitu Ukiwe, General Oladipo Diya and the current Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo. Enjoy the hymn and type your comment below.

The Borno Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, yesterday, said some youths in Maiduguri now hypnotise teenage girls with drugs and charms to rape them.

Former Nigeria international, Chief Emmanuel Amuneke has observed that national team coach, Gernot Rohr who has taken the Super Eagles to the top of their 2018 World Cup qualifying group “has been doing a marvellous job.”