ABUJA—MINISTER of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, yesterday, told the Senate that the foreign loan of $5.8 billion offered Nigeria by China EXIM Bank, was tied to a very stringent condition that when the job commences, Chinese construction firms must be the ones that would be engaged to execute the contract.

Abuja—Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, said that Nigeria has not been able to make progress because successive governments failed to continue with good policies put in place by their predecessors.

THE death toll in the attack at Epogi community of Mokwa Local Government Area, Niger State has risen to 27, with 21 victims given mass burial, while the state government has vowed that the perpetrators will be brought to book.

IN response to the renewed outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, the Nigerian Government has activated a preparedness plan by setting up the Ebola Preparedness Working Group, EPWG, even as passengers with fever arriving from a county where Ebola has been detected are to be investigated.

The World Bank has disclosed that it expended $70 million projects in 10 Nigerian universities to boost Science and Technology studies and make them of global standard.

Over 11 persons have been killed and 15,000 others displaced in the herdsmen and farmers’ clash in Bali Local Government Area of Taraba State.

Emir Sanusi had almost always lived at the top. The grandson of a famed emir, a product of some of the best schools in the country, Kings College, Lagos, ABU Zaria; the first Northern CEO of Nigeria’s First Bank, a banker of bankers with a respectable pedigree in Islamic knowledge and postulations; his enthronement as monarch should not have agitated anyone. So, why is His Royal Highness in trouble?

The Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs plans to terminate about six abandoned projects spread across the region with a view to enhancing the development of the region.

With its futuristic film studios, luxury shops and elevated light railway, Tinapa should be a showcase of Nigerian dynamism, a commercial hub for West Africa raking in millions of dollars.

China’s football authority said Wednesday it is investigating Brazilian star Hulk’s alleged altercation with a rival club’s staffer, but it saw “no malicious intent” in a separate racially-charged row involving Argentina’s Ezequiel Lavezzi.