Senator Uche Chukwumerije yesterday revealed that burial rite of Eze Igbo Gburu Gburu, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, will take a national outlook, featuring prominent people from all walks of life from within and outside the country.

Security has been tightened around military formations in Lagos, following Tuesday’s attack on two of its formations in Kawo, Kaduna State by members of the Boko Haram sect.

Osun State Police Command, Tuesday, arrested and detained former Commissioner for Finance and Economic Development under Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola’s administration in the state, Elder Moses Adetoyese Ojo over a loan of N60 million he unilaterally guaranteed a revenue consultant in a bank while in office.

FORTY-EIGHT hours after the National Summit Group voted for a national conference to restructure the country into a true federal state, the National President of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor has given his nod for the proposal, arguing that if talking would tear the nation apart, then we were not made to be one.

Edo State Police Command yesterday paraded 13 suspected robbers allegedly involved in various robbery operations in different parts of the country.

Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar, has charged operators in the petroleum industry to patronise the Nigerian Railways Corporation, NRC, which recently acquired 20 new pressurised petroleum products tank wagons worth N600 million for the movement of products across the country.

Bills for land to establish the Lagos State House of Assembly Budget and Legislative Research Office; Local Government system, Establishment and Administration of Local Government Councils, as well as for voluntary cremation of corpses and unclaimed corpses in the state have passed through the first reading at the state House of Assembly.

THE Senate, yesterday, ordered the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, to submit its nominal roll for scrutiny, just as it frowned at the department’s plans to spend N30.399 billion as its recurrent expenditure out of a total budget of N35 billion for this year.

Chief Favour Izuokumor’s wife, who was kidnapped last Sunday while returning from a church service on Airport Road, Effurun, Delta State, has been released.

ABUJA—Following resumption of hostilities in the Niger Delta by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, the House of Representatives Wednesday directed three of its committees to investigate implementation of the amnesty programme offered militants by late former President, Umar Musa Yar’Adua.

LOADING of petroleum products from Matrix Energy Limited Tank Farm in Ifiekporo community in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, was disrupted, yesterday, by hundreds of protesting women and youths.

Chief Emeka Anyaoku has described the death of Chief M. T. Mbu as a huge loss to the country. He said: “MT, as he was fondly known to friends and associates, was the child prodigy of Nigerian politics in the era of healthy and relatively corruption-free politicking in the country, having been appointed as Federal Minister at the age of 23.