Dolphins and IGP Queens basketball teams have continued their winning streak in the ongoing Zenith Bank Women basketball league taking place in Kaduna.

SHAREHOLDERS of NASCON Allied Industries Plc have approved a dividend payout amounting to N1.85 billion or 70 kobo per share earlier recommended by the Board of Directors for the year ended December 2016. They gave the approval at the company’s Annual General Meeting, AGM, in Lagos, and urged the Board to also consider rewarding the shareholders through issuance of bonus shares in the course of the current financial year.

The recent call by the 2014 National Conference delegates on the President to implement the conference report and restructure Nigeria has continued to generate reactions from eminent Nigerians.

GOVERNOR Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has promised to complete over 3,000 kilometres of roads in his tenure, adding that the materials for the construction of the roads will be sourced from the state and not outside.

The Nigerian Prisons Service has vaccinated 29,163 Prisoners against Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM), in the 19 Northern states.

Two persons died, while 20 others were injured, yesterday, in Ogun State, following two separate accidents involving an 18-seater bus, a truck and a Toyota Camry at Sango Tollgate Junction, inward Lagos and Obada in Ewekoro Local Government Area, inward Abeokuta.

THE Senate yesterday said the 2017 Appropriation Bill would be laid for deliberation and passage next Tuesday.

There may be no end in sight to the myriad of challenges facing Nigeria’s oil industry as both the federal government and the international oil companies, IOCs, are still at loggerheads over the exact amount involved in crude overlift.

DISTURBED by the scarcity of international passport booklet worldwide, the House of Representatives yesterday resolved that the Federal Government found ways to curb its scarcity.

The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, who is facing trial over allegation that he falsely declared his assets, yesterday, told the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja that he has no case to answer.

A 58-year-old woman and mother of seven, Mrs. Joy Raji, and indigene of Ikpoba Okhai Local Government Area of Edo State, has been sentenced to six years imprisonment for human trafficking.

INSIDE Out with Agatha”, Nigeria’s longest running independent television talk show has announced plans to celebrate its 20th anniversary starting with a TV reality show called ‘The Search’. This was announced at a media parley held at the Rave TV office in Lagos last week.

Lanre Gentry, the estranged husband of Nollywood actress, Mercy Aigbe, will appear in court today, following a case of physical assault brought against him by the Lagos State Department of Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team, DSVRT.

No fewer than 490 teachers in Borno State were killed, while trying to protect school children from insurgents, the Director of Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre, WARDC, Dr. Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, has said.

Three persons have been killed during cult clash that erupted in Elibrada community, Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State.