Pope Paul VI, who led the Catholic Church through a tumultuous reform period in the 1960s and 1970s, could be elevated to sainthood in 2018 after a second miracle was linked to him, according to reports on Friday.

Arsene Wenger has admitted it is hard to plan for what Liverpool’s attack will look like when both teams meet on Friday in the Premier League.

PORT HAR-COURT— Hundreds of Ijaw Youth Congress, IYC, members, yesterday, stormed the head office of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, protesting alleged Federal Government’s plan to extend the tenure of the current board of the commission.

ABUJA—Following the alarming rates of drug abuse in some parts of the country, the House of Representatives at plenary yesterday, asked the National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, to immediately place a ban on the dispensing and sales of codeine across the counter nationwide.

ABUJA—Eleven years after it was awarded, the Federal Government, said, yesterday, that there is no definite deadline for the completion of the East-West Road dualization project.

Rivers State governor, Mr Nyesom Wike, has flagged off the construction of shore protection works in five communities in Ndoni District of Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of the state.

Uyo—GOV-ERNOR Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has distanced himself from the proposed withdrawal of $1 billion from the Excess Crude Account, ECA, by the Federal Government to tackle insurgency in the North East.

ILORIN—The Kwara State House of Assembly, yesterday, passed the 2018 budget of the state totalling N190,997,425,571.

Jos—Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State has presented the 2018 budget estimate of N145, 488,066,352 billion to the state’s House of Assembly, with a promise to continually accord priority to the welfare of civil servants through timely promotions and payments of salaries and allowances.