Indications have emerged that Nigeria’s economy is rallying from negative to positive growth in the second half of 2017, if data from the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Purchasing Managers’ Index, PMI, and global rating agency, Fitch’s, are anything to go by.

The Federal Government has commenced the process of restructuring in the way it understands, the Minister of Information, Culture, and Tourism, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said yesterday.

The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, stated in its latest report released yesterday that food price pressure continued into July as all major food sub-indexes increased, with food inflation in the country rising by 20.28 per cent Year-on-Year (YoY) in July.

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, referring to the 2019 elections and its activities as the opposition party  yesterday, told President Muhammadu Buhari that it would give him a good run for his money, noting that the party had vowed to keep the President on his toes.

ABUJA—The Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, has withdrawn the “quit notice” it issued Igbo resident in the region, but asked the Federal Government to arrest the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, saying the time has come to curtail his excesses.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, called off the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting, which normally starts at about 10am every Wednesday.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, directed service chiefs and heads of security operatives to arrest all security threats against the unity of the country.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s resumption broadcast, yesterday, elicited  reactions, ranging from strong commendations for his proclamations to sustain the unity of the country, to chastisements of same by some who said his assertions came too little and too late.

Ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’s expected resumption today, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, and some other youth groups, yesterday, tasked the president to quickly address the agitation for the restructuring of the country.

After 104 days on medical vacation in the United Kingdom, UK, President  Muhammadu Buhari, at exactly 4:48 yesterday afternoon, stepped down from the plane that brought him back, at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

FRESH facts have emerged indicating that the mission of Boko Haram insurgents on the day no fewer than 276 girls were abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok was not to kidnap the girls but to steal building equipment.

NOTABLE Nigerians from different walks of life, including representatives of Afenifere and Ohanaeze converged on Lagos, yesterday, with a call for restructuring of the country before the 2019 general elections.

Over N400 billion was paid out to public officials as bribes in Nigeria between June 2015 and May 2016, a government report disclosed, yesterday.

Police shot into the air, yesterday, after protesters demanding that President Muhammadu Buhari should resume or resign, were confronted by supporters of the President in Abuja.

Academic programmes in all public universities in the country were, yesterday, truncated, following an indefinite strike called by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.