While pledging their support to the President, they therefore invited the President to reassure the region by immediately dismissing Dr. Lukman from office.

Sunshine football Club of Akure weekend got off to a shaky start in their WAFU interclub competition campaign, settling for an heartbreaking 3-3 draw with the visiting Liberty professionals of Ghana in a cracker watched by capacity crowd at the Akure township stadium.

Lawmakers and Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), have expressed contradictory stands on relocation of manufacturing industries in the country to neighbouring Ghana.

The Sokoto State Council of Ulamah and Imams has reacted to the demonstration staged by members of Shi’ite Muslims at the National Assembly referring to its earlier letter of March 5, 2008 to President Yar’Adua about the alleged “insurgen-cy and criminal activities of the Shi’ite members in Sokoto”.

Mr Godwin Nyame, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Natural Resources, who disclosed this in Jalingo said that the state government requested the supply of 60,000 tonnes of fertilizer from the Federal Govern-ment, adding, however, that only 21,000 tonnes were supplied.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State yesterday suspended the chairman of Oredo local government council, Mr. Nosa Ehima, for two months over alleged misappropriation of council funds.

He said “the issue has opened a pandora box of fresh discontent and agitation over resource control in the Niger Delta.”

Following the controversy trailing the planned relocation of the Petroleum University from Effurun to Kaduna, the president of the Global Peace and Relief Initiative, Prophet Jones Erue, has appealed to President Musa Yar’Adua to immediately relieve the Minister of Petroleum, Dr.Rilwani Lukman, of his duties.

The microfinamce bank inter-bank market must be credible to attract patronage from operators of microfinance banks (MFBs).

Minister of Transport Alh. Ibrahim Isa Bio, has said that the problem of shortage of funds hindering involvement of local operators in maritime sector of the nation’s economy will soon be addressed with the establish-ment of the expected regional Maritime Development Bank for Maritime Organizations of West and Central African States (MOWCA) to be sited in Nigeria.