HOST Communities of Nigeria, Oil and Gas, HOSTCOM, Isoko ethnic nationality chapter, yesterday, urged the National Assembly to hasten the passage of the Host Community Bill presently before it to douse the tension in the Niger Delta and pave the way for the overall development of the oil rich region.

FBN Holdings Plc has commenced move to reduce its Non Performing Loan, NPL, which stood at over 25.2 per cent in the first quarter of 2017.

Indications emerged at the weekend that Ekiti State Government will be handing over mission schools to their original owners on the condition that they can prove that they have the ability to provide qualitative education in such institutions.

Two residents of Oshokoro community in Ibeju Lekki area of Lagos, who were arrested over the abduction of a Police Inspector, have revealed how the officer was killed and buried in a shallow grave.

First of all, on the back of the fact that macro-economic indicators are looking good, it is obvious indication recession is gradually ebbing; we are obviously coming out of recession. The fact that inflation is falling, the fact that Purchasing Managers Index, PMI, has been above 50 per cent, the fact that foreign exchange liquidity is better now, we are expecting to see an improvement in companies result in Q2, which will cause a further rally in the market.

A notorious robbery suspect, Kazeem, arrested by the operatives of Rapid Response Squad, RRS, of the Lagos State Police Command, has narrated how his gang specialised in placing orders for phones online, and then rob the delivery men.

Doctors at a private hospital in Odogunyan, Ikorodu, Lagos, are battling to save the life of an orphan, Friday Paul, whose uncle/guardian drove a three-inch nail into his head for stealing N500.

THE landlord of 20, Edim Otop Close, a suburb of Calabar, simply identified as Nyok, was yesterday afternoon along with two of his accomplices, set ablaze by a mob for allegedly snatching a phone from a lady.

Motorists plying the ever busy Wharf road, Apapa, Lagos will from this week experience increased traffic pain, as the Federal Government weekend announced restriction of vehicular movement on the road to allow for 12 months reconstruction work which commences this week.

Deputy Governor of Delta State, Mr Kingsley Otuaro, has said that the Delta State Advocacy Committee Against Oil Facility Vandalism, which he chairs, was always open to engagement with any aggrieved group for positive advancement of the state and nation