The UN Security Council will be visiting Nigeria within the next few weeks to discuss strategies for combating the destructive Boko Haram insurgents and assess the level of humanitarian crisis caused by the terrorist group.

FIVE people, including an eight-month-old baby and two other children aged three and six, were among those burnt to ashes when a suspected lunatic set his family house ablaze in Kisi, Oke Ogun area of Oyo State.

WHEN Buhari announced his cabinet members and granted the Ministers portfolios, nobody could have selected the Minister for Transport, Rotimi Amaechi as the minister most likely to succeed in the first term. Compared with appointees from the Southwest and Southeast who had received rave reviews as governors of their states or prolific National Publicity Secretaries, Amaechi apparently had no chance to top the class of 2015 Ministers.

An aide to the wife of the Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly, Mrs. Ese Ogi, was reportedly abducted yesterday after her husband, who was initially abducted, escaped from the hoodlums.

THE people of Ossissa, Ndokwa East Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday, kicked against the Nomadic Cattle Rearing Control Bill, now before the state House of Assembly, saying that the community would not give out any portion of its land as a designated area for cattle grazing.

Ahead of today’s meeting of governors, senators and other top stakeholders of the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led mainstream of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the contending Ali Modu Sheriff’s faction yesterday launched a charm offensive to ward off further judicial acrimony.

Following recent attacks by remnants of the Boko Haram insurgents in parts of Borno State, Governor Kashim Shettima, weekend, held an emergency security meeting with heads of the Nigerian Army, Air Force, Police and the Department of State Services, DSS, aimed at stepping up measures on increased surveillance to forestall further security breach.

THE Finance Minister, Olusegun Aganga and his entourage have planned roadshows traversing markets in Europe and the United States to promote Nigeria’s credit worthiness and facilitate popular subscription of a proposed $500m/Euro loan.

The Debt Management Office, DMO, said yesterday that the nation’s total debt profile currently stood at $57.39 billion.

The two teams representing Nigeria in the CAF Champions League, Rangers and Rivers United have qualified for the first round of the continent’s premium club football tournament.