Cross River State Government has signed a $1.2 million Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with a Canadian firm, Canadian Pacific Consultant Services, CPCS Transcorp, for the development of a transportation master plan in the state.

NATIONAL Association of Delta State Students, NADESSTU, has urged the Delta State Government to beef up security in Ekpan and its environs in Uvwie Local Government Area of the state.

Twenty indigenes of Osun state including the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Oluseyi Petirin have been slated for award as part of the activities marking the 20th anniversary of the creation of the state.

THE fast deteriorating Enugu-Port Harcourt Express road has become a death trap as contractors hired to repair the road under the supervision of FERMA have since abandoned work on the road.

Former Kano State governor, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, has called on Muslims to imbibe the teachings of Ramadan and live according to the dictates of Islam.

A suspected member of a three-man robbery gang, was, yesterday, burnt to death by a mob in Festca area of Lagos State.

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, Wednesday, warned that all persons without genuine and legal mission to the nation’s 22 airports will henceforth be arrested and prosecuted.

THE first Nigerian Ambassador to Sao Tome and Principe during the Olusegun Obasanjo Administration, and Deputy gubernatorial candidate on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Borno State in the April 2011 general elections, Amb. Saidu Pindar, died Wednesday in an auto crash along Kaduna-Zaria-Kano road.

THE Movement for the Actualization of a Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), yesterday, raised an alarm over the alleged plot by the dreaded Boko Haram sect to bomb the venue of the South East Economic summit holding at Nike Lake Resort Enugu today and tomorrow.

The Federal Government Wednesday said that an Al-Qaeda linked suspect who recently returned from Somalia masterminded last week’s attack on UN headquarters here, one of the bloodiest targeting the world body.