Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has urged the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to take proactive steps aimed at preventing coups in the sub-region.

The Chairman Military Pensions Board, (MPB), Commodore Saburi Lawal, has pledged to ensure prompt payment of pensions and gratuity to retirees of the Nigerian Armed Forces.

President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived Owerri, Imo, on one-day official visit where he would inaugurate some developmental projects executed by the State Government.

The Zamfara State Government says it has incepted vehicles conveying food, drinks and fuel to various bandit camps in the state.

A Lagos bound 18 passengers bus has been attacked by suspected gunmen and kidnapped unspecified numbers of travellers between Idoani – Ifira Axis in Ondo State.

Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has disclosed that nothing would make him and the other governors of the Southern region rescind their decision on anti-open grazing law while blasting the Miyetti Allah Kataul Hore over plans to move against it.

The Aisha Buhari Foundation (ABF), on Wednesday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Victims’ Support Fund (VSF), to provide technical and financial support to the newly built Future Assured College in Maiduguri.

Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has given details of how loads of Captagon, a brand of Amphetamine meant for insurgents’ camps in Nigeria were intercepted by operatives of the Agency at the Apapa port in Lagos.

Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, on Wednesday charged practitioners in the insurance industry to deepen the penetration of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to the grassroots.

Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company has banned the relocation of prepaid meters by customers moving to new locations.

The Conference of 57 Local Governments and Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) in Lagos State has requested for equal sharing formula with the state in the proposed Value Added Tax (VAT) Bill now before the state House of Assembly.

The Department of State Services (DSS) told the Federal High Court, Abuja that some criminal elements – “one chance’’ had stolen its case-file.

The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN) has sought for more time to enlighten its members to stop the practice of open grazing of cattle in Lagos State.

The Imo Government says it has put adequate security measures on the ground ahead of Thursday’s planned visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to the state.