Nigeria’s image received a boost on Thursday before the international community as former Agriculture Minister Akinwumi Adesina formally received the 2017 World Food Prize (WFP) Laureate award in the U. S.

Adesina was confered with the laureate in Des Moines, U. S. during which he committed the 250,000 dollars cash prize to set up a fund for financing African youths in agriculture.

Lagos State has the highest number of prisoners in Nigeria, 7,396 out of the national total of 68,686, a new data released on Thursday by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS says.

The state, which is the commercial hub of Nigeria also leads in prisons congestion. It has a capacity for 3,927 prisoners, indicating that it is almost 100 per cent overfilled, a trend that President Muhammadu Buhari has called a national scandal.

Workers of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) across the country have been directed to immediately commence indefinite industrial action.

The directive to proceed on strike was issued on Thursday in Abuja by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN).

Immediate past Director General of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms, Dr. Joe Abah, has been appointed Country Director for Nigeria by Development Alternatives Incorporated (DAI) Global, a Maryland US-based social and economic development company.

DAI announced his appointment on Wednesday.

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has deployed some of its air assets and personnel to Jos, the Plateau State capital, to support Operation SAFE HAVEN in maintaining peace and to curtail latest wave of killings in parts of the State.

The Presidential Committee on the North-East Initiative (PCNI) has taken a drastic measure to stop rape and spread of the Human Immune Virus (HIV) in Internally Displaced Persons’ Camp.

Alhaji Tijanni Tumsah, Vice Chairman, PCNI in a monthly review meeting with stakeholders and development partners in the North-East, said the committee was relentless in its move.