The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, on Tuesday flagged off three training exercises simultaneously across the country in an effort to ensure the protection of lives and property.

The Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) has urged the Federal Government to provide a window of “special funding” for operators of local airlines in the nation’s aviation sector.

Nigeria’s Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the economy, Mr. Wale Edun, says after China and India, Nigeria is the largest economy that investors are running after.

Wife of the Labour Party (LP) Governorship Candidate, Mrs. Teslima Eradiri, has commenced campaign to mobilise women for her husband, Mr. Udengs Eradiri, in the Nov. 11 election in Bayelsa.

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyeosm Wike has urged the European Union (EU) to support Nigeria’s efforts grow her economy and not interfere with the country’s internal affairs.

The Special Military Task Force, Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), maintaining peace in Plateau and parts of Kaduna and Bauchi States, have arrested 13 suspects over alleged kidnapping, banditry, rustling and other criminal offences.

An NGO under the agies of ‘The Our Water, Our Right Africa Coalition (OWORAC)’, has called on African leaders to stand in defence of the right to water and reject privatisation scheme.

More than 800,000 asylum applications have been filed in the European Union, Norway and Switzerland this year up to October.