THREE armed youths, weekend, disrupted the Delta State monthly environ-mental sanitation exercise in the Ughelli North Local Government Area. They dismantled a mobile court and chased away two unarmed police officers attached to the court.

Delta State Government has called for reconciliation and unity of purpose from all stake-holders, following the judgment of the Court of Appeal over the outcome of the January 6 rerun gubernatorial election.

The Special Court Martial set up to try the former Brigade Commander of 33 Artillery Brigade, Bauchi, Brigadier General Muraina Raji over the escape of two detainees suspected to be Boko Haram members has visited the Wetland Detention Facility at the brigade as the defence and prosecution closed their cases last Friday.

Port Harcourt- About 16 illegal refineries have been discovered within Imo River Field of Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, Abia State, causing the company to shut down production of 25, 000 barrels of oil per day since August 28, 2011.

Lagos State Government has commenced a house-to- house sensitisation aimed at involving residents in evolving a sustained and cleaner environment in the metropolis.

The dissolution of Operation Famou Tangbei, OFT, a special security outfit established by the Bayelsa State Government to handle special security matters has drawn condemnation from some state stakeholders.

The Court of Appeal sitting in Sokoto has ordered the Election Petition Tribunal in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State to retry the election petition filed by the former FCT Minister and CPC Senatorial Candidate for the Kebbi Central Senatorial District, Senator Muhammadu Aliero against Senator Abubakar Atiku Bagudu of the PDP.

Abia State Command of Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, has said that in its effort to ensure sanity on the roads, a total of 234 offenders were charged to its mobile court within the last few months out of which 203 offenders were convicted of various traffic offences.

Immediate past governor of Bauchi State, Alhaji Adamu Mu‘azu, has become the latest candidate to formally enter the contest for the national chairmanship of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

AHEAD of the July, 2012 governorship election in Edo State, former Chairman Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Tony Anenih, weekend, said that reclaiming the state for the PDP was a “task that must be won.”

Deputy Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Nsima Ekere, has commended the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, for improving on its combat-readiness by investing in the regular training and retraining of personnel.