BAYELSA State Government, yesterday,  said it realised N13.6 billion as its annual Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, for last year as against the N4.5 billion realised in 2012.

The Imo State governorship candidate of the Action Alliance, AA, Uche Nwosu, yesterday asked his fellow politicians in the state to learn from President Muhammadu Buhari’s integrity.   

THE Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, has applauded President Muhammadu Buhari for his continued funding and fast-tracking the Amnesty Programme under the leadership of Prof. Charles Dokubo.

The Katsina State government, yesterday, said issue of insecurity relating to kidnappings, banditry and armed robbery bedevilling the state would soon be put to an end.

Edith Agoye, head coach of Shooting Stars Sports Club,  3SC, Ibadan, says he’s unsure of his future at the Oluyole Warriors following their dismal performance at the NNL Super Eight in Aba.

The Nigerian Army, yesterday, temporarily closed the only safe highway connecting Maiduguri in Borno State and Damaturu, Yobe State, following a siege laid to the road by Boko Haram insurgents.

World Bank has put the estimated growth rate for Nigeria’s economy in 2019 at 2.2 percent with its forecast oil price at average $67 per barrel for the current year and next year, down $2 from its projections last June.

Worried by theinability of indigent residents of Lagos to satiate medical service, a group of women lecturers, medical experts and others in institutions yesterday provided free medical services to no fewer than 1,000 indigent patients in Ikorodu.

Embattled governorship candidate of the Accord Party, AP, in Rivers State, Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs, has said he substituted Nelson Amieye, and not Sir Precious Baridoo, who had sued him, to be nominated as flag bearer of the party.

IN a bid to block revenue leakages and promote transparency, the Ekiti State government, yesterday, disclosed that it would commence the Treasury Single Account, TSA.

Amid the widespread controversy which trailed the Nigerian Army’s invasion of Media Trust office in Abuja on Sunday, a civil society group, Save Human Advocacy Centre (SHAC) has advised that news report about counter-insurgency operations by troops should not take the tune of robbing on the gains being made by the army over the insurgents.

Ilorin, the capital of Kwara state was in a virtual lockdown Thursday as thousands of All Progressives Congress (APC) members and supporters joined the governorship candidate, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, to mobilise voters ahead of the general elections.

Senator Buruji Kashamu has abandoned his governorship ambition and has now urged his faction of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun state to support Oladipupo Adebutu, who is recognised by the national leadership.

There was confusion yesterday at Imo state University, IMSU, following the fire outbreak which destroyed the  Faculty of Humanities Annex.

FOLLOWING violence that rocked the All Progressives Congress, APC, official campaign flag-off in Lagos State, where lives were reportedly lost, the party executive has suspended public rallies and adopted house to house campaign.