There was pandemonium in Ejigbo area of Lagos yesterday, as a young man was hit by a stray bullet from operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, who went to arrest suspected kidnappers.

—Policemen attached to the Force Criminal Investigation Department, Abuja, on Tuesday in Lagos, arrested three members of Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, RTEAN, over the alleged killing of a commercial motorcycle (Okada) rider, identified as Michael Ekpo, a member of Motorcycle Owners and Riders Association, ANACOWA.

RESIDENTS of Sapele, Sapele Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday, faulted the recent claim by Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, that power supply had improved in the municipality and environs.

Erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, yesterday, lodged a report to the police in Abuja over what he claimed as a failed assassination attempt on him.

Provost, College of Medicine, University of Lagos and Consultant Paediatrician, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Prof. Afolabi Lesi has identified dearth of medical expertise, high cost of accessing healthcare and ignorance as major challenges in the management of people living with Cerebral Palsy, CP, in the country.

VCONNECT, a Nigerian search engine and Nolands Tax recently hosted a business forum for SMEs in a bid to support development of entrepreneurship in Nigeria.

IN its passion to inspire children’s creativity, Meadow Hall Group, an educational group has commissioned Meadow Hall Edutainment Centre, a state-of-the–art learning center, in Lekki, Lagos, to nurture and inspire creativity in children.

ILORIN-Agbami Group, comprising of five major oil companies namely NNPC, Petrobras, Statoil, Famfa Oil, and Chevron has donated a multi million naira science laboratory complex and equipment to Comprehensive College, Isanlu Isin in Isin Local Government Area of Kwara state in a bid to improve its standard.

The National Executive Committee, NEC, of Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, has said that a meeting it held at Mosogar, Ethiope West Local Government Area, Delta State, focused on Urhobo nation and its people.

The Italian government has deported another batch of Nigerians for committing immigration-related offences in the country, just two weeks after it deported 33 Nigerians.

Fifteen months after the Ibom Specialty Hospital, Akwa Ibom State, began operations, the facility is yet to be connected to the national grid.

EMINENT Nigerians across the country, yesterday, mourned the demise of former Military Governor of the defunct Western Region, General Olayinka Adebayo, who died in a Lagos hospital. General Adebayo, aged 89, who was military governor of the old Western Region between 1966 and 1971, also served as President of the Yoruba Council of Elders, YCE.

THREE Nigerian banks and their foreign affiliates, yesterday, took over Etisalat Nigeria for allegedly failing to repay a loan of over N541bn it secured from the consortium in 2015.

THE Nigerian economy is overwhelmingly dependent on oil, while accounts for 81 percent of government revenue and more than 97 percent of export earnings. Myopic policies pursued by successive military regimes in the final decades of the last century devastated the traditional agrarian economy and crippled growth in the non-oil sectors.

THE Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has said Nigeria needs 17 million houses to meet its housing deficit.