The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh has said that high interest rate from banks remained the bane of financing of agriculture and the development of good agricultural practices.

Citizens Wealth Platform, CWP, a coalition of Civil Society Organisations, CSO, yesterday, disclosed that there was still no clear deviation from what obtained in the past in the preparation of the country’s budget, stating that the 2017 budget of the Federal Government is still suffused with frivolities, inappropriate, unclear and wasteful expenditures.
Addressing journalists on the estimates in the 2017 budget, Mr. Eze Onyekpere, Facilitator CWP, called on the National Assembly to undertake a thorough scrutiny of the budget document so as to eliminate the frivolities and wasteful estimates in the document.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Strategy Review and Inter-Party Affairs Committee has urged the party to return to its traditional direct primaries for nominating candidates for elections.

Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Thursday directed the State Police Command to ensure prompt arrest of kidnappers who struck on Wednesday evening in Isheri area of the State killing three security guards.

Information Minister, Lai Mohammed, on Wednesday said that, President Muhammadu Buhari, had become a victim of his own transparency in relation to his current vacation abroad.

The Jama’ Atu Nasril Isla (JNI) with its national headquarters, Kaduna, has aid that those who are wishing President Buhari death will not live to eternity and also condemned those calling for the resignation of Professor Yemi Osinbajo, as the Vice President saying such call was callous, mischievous and unpatriotic.

An Ohio woman in the United States has been charged with the rape of a four-year-old boy after it was alleged she committed a sex attack which was filmed and broadcast live on a social media site.

A former Minister of State for Finance, Senator Nenadi Usman, has disclosed her cancer problem, the second minister that served former president Goodluck Jonathan to be so afflicted.

Nigeria’s Super Eagles despite missing the just concluded AFCON have moved up nine places to become the 7th best team in Africa and 41st in the world.

Prosecution counsel, Charles Adeogun-Philips, on Thursday withdrew from the trial of Supreme Court judge, Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, who is being prosecuted by the Federal Government on money laundering charges of over N500million.