Uneasy calm has continued to pervade the ancient town of Badagry days after the skirmish between the Police and soldiers from the 242 Recce Battalion, Ibereko Barracks, as shops and business centres remained closed for fear of the unknown.

NEWSPAPERS Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria, NPAN, yesterday, elected publisher of Thisday Newspapers, Mr. Nduka Obaigbena, as its president at the end of its Annual General Meeting, yesterday.

The Minister of Environment, Mr. John Odey has commended Vanguard Newspapers over its initiative in combating desertification and dryland degradation in the country.

In a bid to combat the rising rate of pipeline vandalism in the country, the Federal Government has employed the services of about 12,000 youths from various communities in the Niger Delta, that cut across the pipelines right of way.

Barely nine days to the end of the sixth Assembly, the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, may not eventually sail through as some legislators in the lower chamber describe its debate as a sheer waste of legislative time.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has said that his administration plans to raise the power supply of the Lagos Island Power plant to 114 megawatts in the next two years.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has paraded four persons for alleged impersonation and fraud during the payment of the commission’s ad hoc staff, who participated in the just concluded general elections in Cross River State.

DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has said the state Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chairman, Chief Peter Nwaoboshi, cannot claim ignorance that he was not consulted for his input before the list of ministerial-nominees from the state was sent to Abuja.

A cache of ammunition, including rocket propelled grenade launchers, RPGLs, AK 47 rifles and dynamites, belonging to the Niger Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, led by fallen militant leader, ‘General’ John Togo, have been abandoned at a hideaway, where they were buried in a jungle by fleeing militants, shortly after the group was disbanded, May 14, following the demise of Togo.

The Director General of National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Dr Paul Orhii, has estimated drug counterfeiting as a $75 billion business annually.