Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Lawal Babachir, said he would not honour Senate’s invitation on Thursday over the handling of funds for North-East rehabilitation.

SENATOR Dino Melaye will on Thursday morning, file a N5 billion libel suit against an online media platform, SaharaReporters,Vanguard gathered late Wednesday.

The Presidency Wednesday night dissociated itself from the face-off between the Senate and the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hammed Ali (rtd), saying that the issue does not concern it.

IN a bid to improve the education standard in the country, the executive director of Lela Blossom School, Mrs. Abiola Oduwusi has said that the need for extra curricula activities that would push for excellence should not be exhibited in academics alone, but in all aspects of human endeavour and enterprise.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has written a letter to Prseident Mohammadu Buhari asking him to order the Inspector General of Police Ibrahim Kpotun Idris to end the invasion of Amnesty International Office in Abuja, and the harassment of the organization’s staff.

SIX foreign universities from the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada respectively said they are in Nigeria to offer free counseling on career choices for prospective students willing to study abroad. The Universities are St. Michaels University, UK; Riverside Military Academy, USA; St Andrews College, Ontario, Canada; The Village Academy, Houston, Texas, USA; Strathallan School, UK and St. Catherine School, Ontario, Canada.

VICE Chancellor of the Delta State University, Abraka, Prof. Victor Peretomode, has charged new students of the institution to live up to the ideals of the university summed up in her logo ‘Knowledge, Character and Service’, warning that any student found to be involved in lawlessness and anti-social vices shall be expelled.

The Lagos Sate Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), said on Wednesday that it had recovered the corpse of Dr Allwell Orji who plunged into the lagoon on Sunday.

THE Federal University, Lokoja, FUL, will by end of this year commence programmes in its school of postgraduate studies.

At least 46 people were killed and almost 100 others wounded in clashes between rival ethnic groups in southwest Nigeria earlier this month, police said on Wednesday

Three people were killed, including a police officer, in a suspected terrorist attack outside the British parliament, by an attacker who was shot dead by armed police, Britain’s top anti-terror officer said Wednesday.

A Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan has sentenced a Central Bank of Nigeria staff, Philip Togun, and a woman, Esther Afolabi, ex-staff of WEMA Bank to 18 years imprisonment for participating in stealing of N8 billion at CBN Ibadan branch.

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), has predicted partly cloudy to cloudy weather conditions over the central states of the country on Thursday morning.

Bayelsa Governor and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Peace and Reconciliation Committee, Seriake Dickson, has submitted the peace plan he developed to steer the party out of lingering leadership crisis to the embattled Caretaker Committee Chairman, Senator Ahmed Makarfi.

The naira appreciated significantly against the dollar on Wednesday to trade at N410 to the dollar, newsmen report.