**House of Representatives wants the Abuja Capital City Authority to ban Uber, Bolt and unpainted taxis from operating in the city. Representative, Leke Abejide who moved a motion to that effect said the measure was necessary to check the rising wave of kidnappings and robberies in the Federal Capital territory. 

**You’ve thrown away the baby with the birth water, presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in the last presidential election in Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar laments the quick manner with which House of Representatives threw out the Bill seeking one six-year term for the President, Governors, members of National and State Assemblies. 

**Senator Benjamin Nwajumogu slumped in his home in Abuja and later confirmed dead in a private hospital. He represents Imo North Senatorial District in the 

Nigerian Senate. 

** Yuletide: Lagos State Government commences sale of LAKE rice in the State. The locally produced rice is the product of joint agricultural initiative of Lagos and Kebbi States. Nigeria is in the race to encourage local self sufficiency in rice production. The country used to spend billions of dollars annually on importation of rice from Thailand, China and India. Nigeria has abundant arable land to grow rice and countless agricultural commodities for local consumption and export. 

**Supreme Court affirms the election of Governors: Seyi Makinde (Oyo State), Nasir El- Rufai (Kaduna State), Dapo Abiodun (Ogun State), Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos State), Aminu Masari (Katsina State), Udoh Emmanuel (Cross River State. 

**Business mogul, Kensington Adebutu says he will renovate National Stadium in Lagos that has been in bad state of disrepair for a long time. The Stadium was built in 1973 by the General Yakubu Gowon military administration. 

**Lagos, new destination for TAAG Angola Airlines, to operate two weekly flights into the city, Dr. Rui Carreira, Chief Executive Officer of the Airlines told newsmen in Lagos.