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When Facebook Founder, Mark Zuckerberg, visited Nigeria, last year, one of the challenges he threw at local application developers was to look inwards for applications that would solve the country’s economic problem.

ABEOKUTA—A vulcaniser and his friend, working by the roadside, reportedly lost their lives, yesterday, along Atan-Idiroko Road, when an unregistered truck coming from Oke-Odan, Idiroko, lost control due to speeding and rammed into them.

Bauchi State Chairman of Primary Health Care Development Agency, PHCDA, Adamu Gamawa, has debunked reports that 80 children in Tiyin ams Shikato communities in Warji Local Government Area were killed by a strange disease, saying there is no case of an epidemic in the communities.

Successful wives have been counselled to remain humble and behave appropriately whenever fate entrusts them with the family’s financial responsibility.

The Speaker of Plateau State House of Assembly, Mr. Peter Azi, has said the House will look into the Bill seeking the ban of open grazing with a view to “passing the Bill that will stand the test of time.”

Following the outcry over hike in the tuition fees of Kwara State Polytechnic and the intervention by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, yesterday, announced a slash of 2017/2018 session’s fees by N5,000.

Former World Court judge, Prince Bola Ajibola (SAN), has lamented the level of corrupt practices endemic in the country, saying it has brought shame on Nigerians.

The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta has said Nigeria runs the risk of losing the benefits of emerging technologies unless the private sector partners with telecommunication operators in bridging data divide.

DELTA  State Government has denied any involvement in the postponement of Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, election earlier scheduled for December 1, 2017.

As the fuel scarcity noticed Monday in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, spread to Lagos, yesterday, the Senate has summoned the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Maikanti Baru, to appear before its Committee on Petroleum Downstream tomorrow, after failing to appear before it  yesterday.

GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has accused the Federal Government of plotting to rig elections in 2019 with the Special Anti- Robbery Squad, SARS.

Director General of Delta State Innovation Hub and former President Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, ISPON, Mr. Chris Uwaje was a guest lecturer at the sixth annual dinner/fund raising party of the Government College, Ughelli Old Boys Association, GCUOBA, recently.

LAGOS—The First Lady of Oyo State, Mrs. Florence Ajimobi, has commended the founder of Live Abundantly Empowerment Initiative, LAEI, a Non-Government Organisation, Dr. Ama Onyerinma for her support  for the less privileged and the vulnerable, especially women and children.

Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, Alumni Association, Lagos chapter, has donated food items and toiletries to Pacelli School for the blind and partially sighted children at the premises of the school located at Ogulana drive, Surulere, Lagos.