NATIONAL President, Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, Dr Rotimi Oladele has said that the issue of xenophobic attacks in South Africa should be handled carefully noting that tit-for-tat approach is not the solution.

Barring any unforeseen development, the Federal Government will this week unfold its Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP), which is expected to outline how the country will get out of recession and attain stability and growth.

LAGOS—Twelve Naira notes vendors have been arrested in a joint raid by officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN and Operatives of Lagos State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, SCIID, Yaba.

As a demonstration of its commitment to provide affordable housing to Nigerians, especially the low income earners, the Federal Government has approved 10 percent waiver on housing mortgages below N5million for Nigerians.

Permit me to begin the second part of this essay with a word from Dr. Shuaib Musa Zaria, who is a leading member of the Shiite Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) and who is a close confidante and associate of Sheik El Zak Zaky, the wounded and detained leader of the Shiite Muslim community in Nigeria.

The Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led National Caretaker Committee of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has denied media reports linking it to the formation of a new party, Advanced Peoples Democratic Party, APDP, saying it would not abandon its structure for the Senator Ali Modu Sheriff-led executive.

Coach Gernot Rohr has visited Noah Joel Bazee in Germany following his invitation to Nigeria national team for the friendly games against Senegal and Burkina Faso.

SCARCITY of funds in the interbank money market intensified last week as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) mopped up N373 billion through sales of treasury bills (TBs).

THE President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, has lamented what he called militarization of Igboland which is dotted with military and police check-points.

INDICATIONS emerged last week that about N30 billion would be pulled out from distributable profits of 10 banks to honour Nigerian Bankers Committees’ (NBC) decision to fund the Central Bank of Nigeria’s, (CBN) export fund in 2017.

LAGOS—Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, Lagos State Police Command, weekend, arrested three suspected kidnappers that fled from Ibadan to Lagos after kidnapping a lady and collecting N3 million ransom.

The president of the Djibouti Football Association, Souleiman Hassan Waberi, says he intends to vote for Ahmad Ahmad in the Confederation of African Football (Caf) presidential election.

The Retired Prelate of Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence, Dr. Sunday Mbang has declared that former President Olusegun Obasanjo remains the best President Nigeria has ever had.

Nigeria’s Minister of Communications, Barrister Abdur-Raheem Adebayo Shittu, is reputed as one of the strongest political loyalists of President Muhammadu Buhari having partnered with him over the years from the Congress for Progressives Change, CPC, to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Following his law education at the then University of Ife, where he obtained a degree in law in 1974, he in 1979, became the youngest member of the Oyo State House of Assembly at the advent of the Second Republic and in 1983 became the Attorney General of the State and Commissioner for Justice until the advent of the Buhari junta in December 1983. He also held the same position as Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice during the Rasheed Ladoja administration. In this interview held in Abuja, the Iseyin, Oyo State-born minister spoke on some national issues.

True to his promise, Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State, weekend, marked his 49th birthday with the displaced people of Bakassi.