MEDICAL DOCTORS in Edo state have suspended its two weeks strike action which they had embarked upon to protest against the poor security in the state and the incessant kidnap of their members by unknown gunmen.

A foremost Estate Surveyor and Valuer, Elder Biodun Odeleye has identified the high level of insecurity in the Niger Delta Region as the major factor militating against real estate investment in the area.

A militant group, “The gods”, led by Mr. Godday Smith, Thursday, disagreed with the Movement for the Emancipation of the NIger-Delta , MEND, and the Niger Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, that last Friday’s bombing of the pipeline that conveys crude oil from Delta State to Kaduna was carried out by local fighers of MEND in the region.

A High Court sitting in Ringim Local Government Area of Jigawa State has passed a death sentenced on Abubakar Abdullahi who confessed before the court that he murdered a 3-year-old girl (names withheld).

INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund, yesterday, urged the Federal Government to reallocate resources away from recurrent expenditure to capital expenditure to support economic growth.

Lagos State Government, through the Office of Public Defender, OPD, has been able to get court judgments free of charge for 1,985 out of 4,860 cases of prison inmates who could not afford the services of private legal practitioners over various criminal offences within the last 10 years.

THE scheduled visit of General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, to the corporate headquarters of Vanguard Media Limited, publishers of Vanguard Newspapers, is generating a lot of excitement in the nation’s media industry.

The Federal Executive Council, FEC, yesterday, approved contracts worth over N37 billion in its weekly meeting yesterday.