A Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere, yesterday, granted the prayers for application of bail of five Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, members, who were accused of murder.

Banks are now to give credit to the manufacturing and agricultural sectors at fixed interest rate which will run for a period of seven years.

THE pan-Yoruba socio-cultural  organisation, Afenifere, and All Progressives Congress, APC, legislators in the House of Assembly, yesterday, condemned the rising wave of killings in Ekiti State.

RELIEF has come to the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in Makurdi, Benue State, following the donation of some relief materials by Baptist Church to them.

WIFE of the President, Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday paid glowing tributes to officers and men of Nigerian military for securing the country, saying the country could not pay them enough for the survival of the country.

Nigeria is not in short supply of good men and women of integrity; the problem we have is that access to power is a very costly venture and is obviously the exclusive preserve of the political class

Like the abrupt termination of duties of Afrobasket winning head coach Sam Vincent wasn’t enough distraction for the Nigerian Women’s national Basketball team currently preparing for the FIBA World Cup in Spain, more drama has evolved.

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has sealed off the premises of companies defaulting in tax payments in Lagos and Benin, in continuation of its enforcement exercise.

Former Rivers State governor, Dr. Peter Odili, has been eulogized as a unifying figure and an apostle of politics without bitterness.

There are indications of possible blackout across the country soon, as electricity Generating Companies (GENCOs) have threatened to shut down their plants over what they described as frequency decay due to inefficient grid management and associated costs.