The Senate yesterday continued debate on the 2016 Appropriation Bill presented by President Muhammadu Buhari, with a call on the executive to to spend borrowed money on capital projects. The debate on the budget ends today after three days.

—NOBEL laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has called for a holistic investigation into the demolition of the Artists Village in the National Arts Theatre, Iganmu Lagos.

The Artists’ Village, considered as the only space that still brews creativity and activity within the National Arts Theatre, was allegedly demolished following the directive from the National Arts Theatre General Manager, Kabiru Yusuf, on Saturday, January 23, 2016.

President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to attend the forthcoming burial of late Olubadan, Oba Odulana Odugade, who died penultimate Tuesday.

The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday, appealed to the Federal Government to release 23 members of the group in detention even as it raised alarm over the antics of its erstwhile leader, Ralph Uwazuruike. The group alleged Uwazuruike was planning to attack its headquarters in Okwe, Onu-Imo Local Government Area of Imo State in a desperate bid to restore himself as leader of the pro-Biafra group.

The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, yesterday, in Abuja said N387.8 billion was shared among the federal, states and local governments as revenue for December, 2015.

ONLINE supermarket, Gloo.ng has launched new express delivery service that lets customers get their goods within two hours of purchase. The company said this move was targeted to meet increasing market demands as wells as promote the happiness of busy homemakers.

THE lights came on quite literally at the Ikeja computer village recently when mobile manufacturing company, Tecno telecoms limited, donated eighty-eight high end solar-powered streetlights, to the Ikeja community as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR efforts. Addressing a teeming audience at an event to launch the donation last week, Tecno’s Managing Director, Mr. Chidi Okonkwo said the company would continue to invest in a broad spectrum of community-centric projects to better the lives people in its sphere of operations.

THE N300 billion innovation fund released by the Federal Government of Nigeria as seed fund to grow local technology start-ups, is expected to create up to 35,000 jobs in the country. The seed fund will work in concert with the $50 million target seed fund which an investment company, EchoVC, has promised to inject for the growth of African tech startups. EchoVC is the sole manager of the Federal Government’s fund.

Men of the Nigerian Navy and some policemen clashed, yesterday, on the busy GRA Junction on Aba Road, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

The Director General, National Broadcasting Commission, Mr. Emeka Mba has said that the securing of the hosting rights of the African Digital Switchover Forum will add more impetus to Nigeria’s digital switchover project. He announced this at the weekend, during the formal signing of the hosting agreement with the CTO in Abuja.