The Lagos State Government has approved Marina and Mile 2 as a hub of its planned intermodal integration service involving rail, water and road transport services.

Kaduna State government has signed agreement with a Chinese company to build a refinery in the state, which will use crude oil from Niger Republic via a 400-kilometre pipeline from Niger to Kaduna.

The Federal and Lagos State Governments are seeking sanctions against Kenya Airways for conveying a corpse from the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, without necessary approval even as laboratory test conducted on the body revealed that the cause of death was not Ebola Virus disease.

FORMER Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, yesterday faulted the Federal Government’s borrowing of money from China to fund airport, saying that financing of such project should be done through the Nigerian capital market.

A divorce-seeking housewife, Mojisola Ajiboye, yesterday, told an Agege customary court that her husband is not the biological father of her son.

A Lagos-based businesswoman, Obiageli Emenike, who allegedly beat her eight-year-old maid, Miracle Edogwu, to death, was yesterday arraigned before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s court, Lagos.

KATSINA—AN eight years old girl has been raped by her 18-year-old brother at Janbago Quarters, Katsina, Katsina State.

The President-General, Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), and Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Alh. Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has called on Muslims all over the country to search for the crescent of Ramadan today.

With concerns raised by parents over the on-going Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, examination across the country, particularly in the areas where computers, power failure, furniture and peaceful space for the conduct of Computer Based Test, CBT, some accredited centres have continued to do their best to make the exercise hitch-free.

The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, (NAHCON) has said that every pilgrim embarking on the 2017 Hajj will pay the sum of 38,000.00 (Thirty Eight Thousand Naira) as price for the sacrificial animal (Hadaya).

Peoples Democracy Party, PDP, chieftain in Delta State, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has added his voice to the condemnation trailing the rumoured impending military coup in Nigeria, saying that the action will be a set back on the development of democracy in Nigeria.

THE IndustriALL Global Union, Africa, has commended the Federal Government’s Executive Council for the constitution of a National Minimum Wage Committee to process the negotiation for a new wage for Nigerian workers, urging stakeholders to negotiate a new living wage for those he described as “impoverished African workforce.”

Six Senior Secondary School students of Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, in Epe area, were early yesterday kidnapped by unknown gunmen.

Two courts of coordinate jurisdiction, yesterday, gave contradictory rulings on Chief Executive Officer of Capital Oil and Gas Ltd, Chief Ifeanyi Ubah.

FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday appealed to Biafran agitators and other secessionist groups not to leave Nigeria.