The Nigeria Football Federation has opted to pay players and officials of the Super Eagles the full match bonus for Monday’s crunchy 2018 FIFA World Cup encounter against the Lions of Cameroon in Yaounde, even though the tie ended in a draw.

THE Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, has moved in to douse tension ahead of the 40th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Oando Plc scheduled for next week Monday in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Ansbury, the indirect foreign investors in the major oil company, had sent another petition to the Commission, seeking to suspend the AGM over what they see as failure of corporate governance in the major oil company.

The Africa Agriculture Status Report (AASR), launched today at this year’s African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, has identified Agriculture as Africa’s quiet revolution, with a focus on SMEs and smallholder farmers creating the high productivity jobs and sustainable economic growth that failed to materialise from mineral deposits and increased urbanisation.

Nigeria has been chosen as one of the priority countries to benefit from the US $280 million Partnership for Inclusive Agricultural Transformation in Africa (PIATA) launched today at the 2017 African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire.

The Kogi Government said on Tuesday that a sister to late Aisha Jimoh, who died of Lassa fever on Monday, has started manifesting symptoms suggestive of haemorrhagic (Lassa) fever.

The Chipolopolo of Zambia showed they meant business and that they won’t hand the Super Eagles of Nigeria the world cup ticket of a platter of gold by beating Desert Foxes of Algeria 1-0 in the return leg of their world cup qualifier.

The Federal Government has directed Chief Medical Directors of Federal Hospitals to immediately engage the services of locum doctors, to augment the services of Consultants, pending the resolution of the ongoing strike by the resident doctors.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, has expressed happiness over the latest report released by the National Bureau of Statistics which indicated that Nigeria had finally exited recession.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari yesterday said that the real impact of coming out of recession will be better felt when ordinary Nigerians experience a change in their living conditions.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has expressed happiness over the latest report released by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS indicating that Nigeria has finally exited recession.

The Lagos State Government, through its Agency for Mass Education, says it will start to shutdown all unregistered tutorial and continuing educational centres (CECs) in state from Sept. 11.

Outdoor advertising practitioners in the country again, yesterday, expressed frustration over multiplicity of levies imposed by regulatory agencies, saying it was impacting negatively on their businesses.

Paul Okoye of Nigeria’s music group Psquare, suffered a loss after gambling with 300 U.S dollars (N107, 522) at the Aria Resort and Casino, Las Vegas in the United State.

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, has said that government will do all that it should do to stop purveyors  of fake news in Nigeria.

Elder statesman Edwin Clark on Tuesday condemned the Biafra agitation led by Nnamdi Kanu.