The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved the issuance of promissory notes for the settlement of debts owed local contractors worth N740 billion.

YENAGOA FORMER Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon yesterday urged state governors to stop the habit of abandoning projects left half way by their predecessors.

The daunting task of surmounting homelessness in Nigeria can be achieved as early as the next decade Mr. Ben Uche Odunzeh, Chairman of EUC Homes Limited has posited.

Constitutional Lawyer and Human Rights Activist, Chief Mike Ozekhome has hailed the judgment of the Supreme Court on who qualifies to be the authentic leadership of the People’s Democratic Party saying the judgment has saved Nigeria’s slide into a despotic one-party state.

Plateau State is a State that is supposed to hold its head high anytime issues of financial obligations to workers arise. This is because of the preponderance of resources both human and natural that dot its landscape. Given a fair exploitation of mineral resources in the state as it is done in states with crude oil, Plateau State should by now be enjoying enormous availability of finance to settle its civil servants as and when due without any snag.

GIVING back to society through laudable intervention such as crime fighting is one passion held high by a beauty queen, Yetunde Savage, who received an award from the wife of Lagos State Governor, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode, during the Lagos State APC Women Week in Lagos.

ABUJA,the ruling All Progressives Congress APC has described Wednesday’s judgment of the Supreme Court which validated Ahmed Makarfi’s chairmanship of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party PDP as not a threat to the existence of the ruling party.

Youth leader of People’s Democratic Party Youth Frontier (PDPYF), Comrade Usman Okai Austin has asked the political gladiators in the party to see the victory at the Supreme court as an opportunity to return the party to the people

Former Brazilian leader, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, was convicted on corruption charges on Wednesday in the first of five graft trials he faces.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has described Sen. Ahmed Makarfi’s victory on Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leadership tussle at the Supreme Court on Wednesday as verdict that would bring PDP together.

Senator representing Lagos East in the Senate, Senator Gbenga Ashafa has called on the Federal Government to intervene in the protracted strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, Ogbomosho, Oyo State.

Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara, has called on traditional rulers in the state to maintain peace and order in their domains.

Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi has commiserated with former Osun State Governor and former Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, over the death of his wife, Madam Omowunmi Akande, who passed on Tuesday.

MINISTER of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, has reiterated the need to include entrepreneurial and skills-based courses in the curriculum of Nigeria’s tertiary institutions to promote self-reliance amongst the nation’s school leavers.

Researchers have developed a new way to non-invasively peer into a person’s arteries, detect inflammation, and possibly ward off heart disease before it becomes too severe to treat, a study said Wednesday.