AN hotel cleaner, Ahuja Sylvester, has been arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, of Lagos State Police Command for defrauding a company of N2 million and attempting to collect another N500 million after hacking into the company’s e-mail address.

SCORES of youths were allegedly injured, yesterday, as gunmen suspected to be soldiers, who came in Hilux Pick-up vans, allegedly attacked the Umuahia country home of leader of  Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

Ahead of its forthcoming NGF conference on fiscal sustainability scheduled to hold in November 2017, the Nigeria Governors’ Forum Secretariat, NGFS, has disclosed that state governors’ contribution to the nation’s economic recovery has been tremendous.

The World Bank has dissociated itself from a multi-purpose co-operative scheme advertised in some parts of the country.

Last week, some newspapers published what Alhaji Lai Mohammed would call “fake news” but which economists, being mostly quantitative in their thinking, would dismiss as deliberate and misleading use of statistics laden with half-truths and untruths. The source of the report was the Presidency – Osinbajo’s half of it. The author, as usual, was Mr Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the Acting President.

THE National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has warned university teachers against embarking on  industrial action without prior notice.

The journey of the Nigerian integrated cement manufacturing, which took a new course just over a decade ago, has seen Nigeria move from a nation with under 3 million tonnes of production capacity to a country that will have some 45 million tons of cement manufacturing capacity by next year – implying about 15 fold increase in capacities. This important feat has not only made Nigeria self sufficient in cement production but also a net exporter of the commodity

LAGOS—No end appears to be in sight as doctors under the auspices of National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, have vowed not to call off their strike which enters the second week today.

China, world’s biggest car market, plans to ban the production and sale of diesel and petrol vehicles, further threatening the future profitability of oil — Nigeria’s major revenue source. 

He has twice stunned Old Trafford into silence on Champions League nights, but as Manchester United make their competition return, Jose Mourinho’s obligation is to make the old stadium roar.

President of the Zambian Football Association,  Andrew Kamanga, has tipped the Chipolopolo to break their World Cup jinx by beating the Super Eagles in next month’s 2018 World Cup qualifier in Uyo, which would put them in pole position to qualify for the tournament in russia.

LAGOS—THE National Christian Elders Forum, NCEF,  has insisted that the Federal Government was planning to Islamise the country through Jihad.

Stanbic IBTC Plc facilitated $589.84 million, an equivalent of N216.47 billion, capital inflow into the country in the second quarter, Q2, 2017, ranking it first among financial institutions that imported capital into Nigeria.

HIS Excellency, Senator Abiola Adeyemi Ajimobi, the Governor,  and by the Grace of The Almighty, the “Constituted Authority”  of Oyo State,  changed the  197-year history of the monarchy in Ibadan by minting 21 additional  Kings where only one had existed. The projection of this reformist is that his chieftaincy factory   will produce   a total of 33 new kings  in Ibadan alone. His raw materials are the 11 High Chiefs in the Olubadan-in-Council, 13 local chiefs or ‘Baales’  and 9 other local chiefs who are yet to be appointed.

Hip-Pop singer Janet Jackson broke down into tears while performing onstage Saturday night, hours after she visited people affected by Hurricane Harvey.