The Federal Government, yesterday, stated that Nigeria’s low crude oil output have negatively impacted on the 2017 budget, stating that the country would be forced to cut down on some capital expenditures listed in the budget and also cut down cost.

The future of Nigerian athletics was being discussed by coaches as the IAAF World U-18 Championships began yesterday in Nairobi, Kenya with the Nigerian team still stranded in Abuja.

A recent study on Nigerian primary school children indicates that there is no difference in performance using paper based and computer based assessment delivery methods.

The Federal Government incurred N3.16 per litre as fuel subsidy last week, showing 94 per cent drop from N50 per litre recorded in 2016, following the low oil price in the global oil market.

The World Bank says it played a limited role in the spending of loots recovered from Sani Abacha, Nigeria’s military head of state from 1993 to 1998.

AN advocacy group, The Safe Schools and Communities Advocacy Group, SSCAG, has tasked Lagos State Governor, Akinwumnmi Ambode, and security agencies to take urgent actions towards the rescue of the six secondary school students of Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, Epe, who have been languishing in their kidnappers’ den for over 40 days now.

TRADITIONAL rulers in the Niger Delta region have been urged to sensitise their subjects against oil theft and related economic crimes.

Immediate past chairman of Ifiekporo community, Warri South Local Government Area, Delta State, Mr Monday Agbeyi, has called on Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to always pay unscheduled visits to ongoing project sites in the state, particularly in Ubeji, Egbokodo, Ifiekporo, Ajaetan and Ijala Ikeren communities, in order to put contractors handling the projects in the areas on their toes for early completion of the projects.

The United States, US Government yesterday launched a Web-based platform that leverages Nigerian citizens’ engagement to fight corruption in Nigeria.

Transactions in the Nigeria Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market (NAFEX) also known as the Investors and Exporters forex window have reached $3.8 billion since its introduction in April.

THE way forward for the country is not bombs, oil or stolen money, but the education we are able to give. If we have a country whose people are well educated, everybody will know his right and there will be rapid development.

It is noteworthy to add that travel boredom has no boundary. It affects you notwithstanding if you are traveling alone or in a group, by road, air or train.

FORMER world champion in 400m, Amantle Montsho, will be participating in the 2017 edition of the Warri Relays/CAA Grand Prix.

Borno State Police Command, yesterday, confirmed that 19 people were killed and 23 injured in the latest Boko Haram attacks in Maiduguri, late Tuesday night.

FOUR students of Trinity International College, Ofada, Ogun State, swept five out of the 11 Top in Nigeria Awards from the British Council from November 2015 Cambridge O’Level Examinations.