The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Thursday released its Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) report for May which confirmed that the nation is firmly on the path of recovery from economic recession.

The Federal Government has mandated the recently appointed Executive Management team of the Federal Mortgage Bank(FMBN) to reposition the bank for greater efficiency.

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), has urged the Federal High Court in Lagos to dismiss a suit urging it to declare that the Federal Ministry of Interior has no power whatsoever to solemnise and register marriages in Nigeria.

No fewer than three persons were feared died and scores sustained severe injured after hoodlums from Okesuna Street and Patey Street, Lagos Island, engaged in supremacy clash.

Calabar, the Cross River State Capital was agog on Thursday as residents comprising women, men and children thronged the streets to give acting President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN a fitting welcome.

President Muhammadu Buhari must urgently drop Ibrahim Magu as the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission if the anti-corruption crusade of the administration must succeed, a coalition of civil society groups said on Thursday.

More than 40 migrants from Nigeria and Ghana have died in the Sahara Desert after their truck broke down in arid northern Niger.

The Joint Task Force (JTF) deployed to the Niger Delta says it has destroyed a hideout used by kidnappers in Bayelsa and killed four suspected sea robbers in crossfire.

The Kogi State Coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mrs Ngozi Nwatarali, on Thursday said that corps members in the state were expected to plant one million trees this year.

The President of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Malam Abubakar Mahmud, on Thursday called on the Military and Nigerians to protect the nation’s democracy by resisting calls to lure them into playing unconstitutional roles.