THE National Economic Council, NEC, yesterday, approved the injection of a fresh $250 million into the Sovereign Wealth Fund sourced from the Excess Crude Account ,ECA. It also inaugurated a 9- member board of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, NSIA.

Lagos State Government has urged hotels, restaurants and food joints in the state to adhere to the provisions of the law banning public smoking in the state. The Government lamented that many operators in the hospitality industry often violate some provisions of the law.

THE Debt Management Office, DMO, has called on Nigerisans to invest a minimum of N5,000 and maximum of N50million in Federal Government Savings Bond, FGNSB, adding that any amount higher than N50million should be invested in the old bond, known as Federal Government of Nigeria Bond, FGNB.

Oyo State governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, on Wednesday, extolled his Special Adviser, Communication and Strategy, Mr. Yomi Layinka, for standing by him during the 2011 and 2015 governorship electioneering that culminated in his becoming the first two-term holder of the office.

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress,APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has commended the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Mudashiru Obasa for his leadership of the House saying he has been able to coordinate the House appropriately.

A building serving as a hideout to the dreaded kidnap kingpin, Evans, who has kidnapped many billionaires within Festac and other parts of Lagos State, collecting up to $1million as ransom from them was yesterday crushed by the police who recovered a large cache of arms and ammunition.

TWO suspected killers of the police orderly to the Deputy Governor of Enugu state, Miss Helen Sunday, have been arrested. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Ebere Amaraizu however said he could not confirm the arrest as at press time but promised to get back to Saturday Vanguard on the matter.

MINNA, the capital of Niger State was a melting pot yesterday as eminent Nigerians across the country gathered at the wedding ceremony of the daughter of former military President, Gen Ibrahim Babangida, retd.

Fate has been unkind to 18-year-old Blessing Chinedu , owing to the unpleasant experience she went through in her tender age . First, was the demise of her father through an auto crash , while her mother was pregnant of her, a tragedy that denied her fatherly love. The tragedy also denied her an the opportunity of seeing the four walls of a school, as her mother could not afford her basic tools like writing materials .

As part of measures to solve the perennial traffic gridlock along the ever-busy Ikorodu road, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has approved the immediate construction of multiple lay-by to de-congest traffic in Ketu axis of the state