ABUJA—The Bank of Industry, BoI, and Borno State Government have set up a N2 billion matching fund for the development of micro, small and medium enterprises, MSME, in the state.

Deportees numbering about 258 from Libya being profiled right on the tarmac on arrival on Wednesday at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja.

LAFIA—Organised labour in Nasarawa State has vowed to go on with the general strike, alleging that the state government has resorted to threats and intimidations.

THE government of Nasarawa State said it had paid its counterpart fund of N500 million to the World Bank on the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project, NEWMAP.

KATSINA—THE internally-displaced persons, IDPs, numbering over 100 from Adamawa, Yobe and Borno states, currently camped in Baure and Zango Local Govern-ment areas of Katsina State, have been warned against selling the relief materials given to them.

In commemoration of its 40th anniversary in Nigeria, the Knights of St. John International, KSJI, and Ladies Auxiliary, Lagos, will on Monday, May 29, 2017, play host to a 400 mass choir in a Choral Classical Concert.

ENUGU— STUDY has revealed that the advent of FADAMA III programme has increased the number of farmers cultivating rice in Enugu State. 

ENUGU—CHAIR-MAN and Chief Executive Officer of Air Peace , Chief Allen Onyema, has described Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State as the best governor in the South East geopolitical zone of the country.

UMUAHIA—GOVERNOR Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has challenged the police and other security agencies in the country to tackle head-on the increasing wave of street cultism, saying it needed to be nipped in the bud.

Awka—THE Anambra State House of Assembly has passed a resolution calling on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to conduct Anambra Central Senatorial re-run election without further delay to give the people of the zone a voice in the country’s upper legislative house.

UMUAHIA—GOVERNOR Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has challenged the police and other security agencies in the country to tackle head-on, the increasing wave of street cultism, saying it needed to be nipped in the bud.

ABUJA — The trial of the former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd), on alleged corruption charges was aborted by the refusal of the Federal Government to produce him in court for trial.

THE Anambra State Drivers Welfare Association, ASDWA, has established a N150 million welfare foundation, known as Anambra State Drivers Welfare Foundation, ASDWF, towards taking care of themselves and helping their members who run into health and accident problems in the course of their jobs and to help their bereaved family members.

Minister of Budget and National Planning, Mr, Udoma Udo Udoma, yesterday, said the 2017 budget was designed to take the country out of recession, assuring that the country would experience the impact.

ABUJA — The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, arraigned immediate past Governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu, before a Federal High Court in Abuja on an eight-count money laundering charge.