A 22-year-old banker, Afolabi Sanusi, was yesterday arraigned before an Ikeja magistrate’s court in Lagos for allegedly diverting money into his lover’s account.

The upward review of duties on imported products and goods by the Federal Government has raised prices of imported goods and products and is having deleterious effect on life generally for millions of Nigerians. But the area where the effects of the implementation of the new policy is biting most is in the health sector where it is causing patients and healthcare providers sleepless nights.

The Federal Government plans to generate up to $16.4 billion through asset sales in the next four years to reduce the burden on the nation’s budget

Unai Emery has stressed Paris Saint-Germain do not feel inferior to any team ahead of the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie with Barcelona.

EX-Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, disclosed, yesterday, that about 20 percent of the nation’s currencies in circulation were fake.

THE Indomitable Lions of Cameroon are hoping they can pick at least four points off the Super Eagles when both teams clash in a crunch 2018 World Cup qualifiers from August, according to assistant coach Sven Vandenbroeck.

The Federal Government has released N844, 360, 550 to seven states for the provision of at least one meal per day to students.

Incidentally, the Honourable Justice Adekeye J.S.C. (rtd) who delivered the historic judgment of the Court of Appeal which confirmed the illegality of police permit is a member of the Nigeria Police Service Commission. We have no doubt that the respected Justice will rightly advise the Nigeria Police Force to stop the illegal practice of insisting on the issuance of police permit for political meetings and rallies in Nigeria.

THE Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and clerics drawn from various churches in Borno State, have declared a seven-day special fasting and prayers to God for the speedy recovery and good health of President Muhammadu Buhari.

A group, Imo Liberation Movement, ILM, has appealed to Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State to consider job creation as a priority in his administration.

LAGOS—Justice Raliatu Adebiyi of an Ikeja High Court, yesterday, sentenced one Anuoluwapo Samuel, 26, to death by hanging for killing his friend, John Omobere, during a brawl after a drinking binge.

Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Fr. Matthew Hassan Kukah has lashed out at church leaders for not living what they professed, accusing them of pursuing material things and abandoning the three aspects of religious life, which are consecration, communion, and mission.

IN continuation of their search for Regional Integration of the zone under the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN), the Southwest Governors, yesterday, resolved to work together to address security challenges confronting the region and foster economic growth and well-being of the people.

Barring any unforeseen circumstance, Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, will be in Imo State today, for a one-day working visit as well as commission some projects in the state.

The Nigerian military has performed the funeral oration and final interment for terrorism in the country long ago. Nigeria and the Northeast particularly have become the global epitomes of how a country and its people reshape their destinies in handling crisis of national dimension. Thanks to the gallant Nigerian troops.