Kogi State Commissioner for Health, Saka Audu, yesterday, identified the strange disease that has so far killed 62 persons in the state to be gastroenteritis, and called for calm.

The efforts of the Osun State Government towards the completion of Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, MKO, International Airport, Ido-Osun has garnered huge support from the Turkish government.

Ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’s expected resumption today, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, and some other youth groups, yesterday, tasked the president to quickly address the agitation for the restructuring of the country.

Nigeria has won the bid to host the 2018 Africa Wrestling Championship.

Ondo State public servants at the weekend, insisted that they would not accept part payment of their salary arrears proposed by the state government from the N7 billion second tranche of the Paris debt refund.

Aiteo Group has described as scandalous and defamatory, a publication by an online newspaper, Premium Times, alleging without any foundation whatsoever, that the company maintained a corrupt relationship with the erstwhile Nigerian Minister for Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke.

The leadership crisis rocking the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, is far from being over as the faction led by Chief Martin Agbaso has approached the Supreme Court, seeking nullification of the Appeal Court verdict, which reinstated Dr. Victor Oye as the authentic national chairman of the party.

EQUITY investors’ in the Nigerian stock market   appear to be swinging back on bull-side of the stock of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc (GTB) after a frosty-footed reaction to the half year, 2017 (H1’17) earnings and benefits announcement by the bank’s board early last week. The share price had headed south, dropping 6.1 per cent within the first two days trading post-result announcement.

DELTA State governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, weekend said a lot of herdsmen who were involved in kidnapping, other crimes and their accomplices in the state have been arrested by security agencies, disclosing that they will soon be arraigned in court.

TWO persons, suspected to have smuggled 145 poisonous snakes and other tropical rainforest reptiles from Cameroon to Nigeria, have disappeared from the custody of the Nigerian Agricultural and Quarantine Agency in Calabar, the office they were handed over to by the Nigerian Customs Service along with their consignment.