THE  Minister for Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, has declared that it is not yet uhuru for Nigerians as regards the much-talked-about the economy’s exit from recession as recently certified by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

NNENNA of ‘Nnenna & Friends’, a subsidiary of Wale Adenuga Productions, actress Olayinka Ademo is now a school proprietor.

FROM September 29 through Monday, October 2, 2017, celebrity restaurant, O’jez, National Stadium, Lagos will be treating Lagosians to a four-day music, comedy, magic and dance festival as part of activities set aside to celebrate this year’s Independence Day anniversary which comes up on October 1.

CALABAR—AFTER more than 60 years of land disputes between the people of Iyamitit in Adun and Ababene in Okum, Obubra Local Government Area of Cross River State, the people have at last agreed to sheathe their swords.

KOLO, a rustic settlement in Ogbia Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, came alive, weekend, when hundreds of youths from Nembe, Brass and Ogbia local government areas converged on the country home of the former National Assembly member representing Bayelsa East senatorial district, Senator Clever Marcus Ikisikpo, in solidarity for the role he played in their education through his scholarship scheme.

OKPAI—INDIGENES of Okpai, a coastal kingdom in Ndokwa East Local Government Area, Delta State, have raised the alarm that the community was on the verge of being wiped away by erosion and sea surge. They lamented that the shoreline and jetty projects awarded by the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, in the community to address the problem of erosion ravaging the community, had been forsaken.  

THE Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai Monday evening stated that the Defence Headquarters did not declare the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB an terrorist organization in the country.

AFRICA Initiative for Governance (AIG) Chairman, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, has joined the International Advisory Board (IAB) of the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.

NIGERIA’s foremost entrepreneur and Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has described the debut N100billion Federal Government of Nigeria Sukuk offer as a paradigm shift in government’s effort aimed at seeking alternative funding for critical infrastructure.

Britain’s troubled former heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury challenged UKAD (UK Anti-doping) to hurry up and either ban him for taking an illegal substance or clear him so he can resume his turbulent career.

The Kogi Police Command said it had launched a manhunt for the killers of an expatriate, his police orderly and driver on Lokoja-Ajaokuta road on Sept. 16.

 Alhaji Aminu Gwadabe, the President of Association of Bureaux De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON), says consistent evacuation of dollars illegally from Nigeria to Dubai is a threat to stability of the naira.

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, last night announced a conditional suspension of the strike it embarked upon five weeks ago.

Two people  hospitalised after sustaining varying degrees of injuries, Monday, when a cooking gas exploded and partly affected the ground floor of a storey building at No 12, Iya Omolere Street, Ogudu in Kosofe Local Government area of Lagos State.

Over the years, flood in Nigeria has pushed rivers over their banks and submerged hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland. In just over five years, floods had forced 1.3 million people from their homes and claimed 431 lives, according to Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency.