Gov. Ben Ayade of Cross River on Friday presented a budget of N276 billion to the state House of Assembly.

The Senate Committee on Works will liaise with the House of Representatives, the Executive on provision of an emergency fund to clear the N420billion owed road contractors by the Ministry of Works and Housing.

The Federal Government say it has paid two-months backlog of its Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) to over 74,000 beneficiaries in Kogi.

The Presidential Spokesman, Femi Adesina has described as fake, reports that the aircraft in which President Muhammadu Buhari recently travelled to the United States developed fault mid-air and that the president escaped narrowly.

The Minister of Defence, Maj. Gen. Bashir Magashi (Rtd) said the need to follow due process was responsible for the delay in declaring bandits as terrorists.

The Appeal Court in Port Harcourt has dismissed a suit by the suspended national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP, Uche Secondud aimed at stopping the party’s convention.

President Muhammadu Buhari has warned that nobody should start campaigning for an unconstitutional extension of his tenure in office beyond May 29, 2023.

As part of efforts to treat the high number of persons suffering drug addiction in the country, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA will establish six standard rehabilitation centres, one in each geo-political zone of Nigeria.