The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Abubakar Mohammad, has disclosed that the Ministry has regulated its policies and programmes in order to achieve increased productivity in the sector.

EX-Governor of Nasarawa State and Secretary, Board of Trustees, BoT, of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu, said he resigned from his position because of the pending cases against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

The Managing Di rector, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mallam Abdulsalam Mohammed, has enjoined managers of Ports in West and Central African countries to adopt the provisions of the Nigerian Port Environmental Policy for their ports environmental requirements.

Intensive lobby over who becomes the next Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly has commenced, even as the embattled Speaker, Martin Okonta, has dismissed news report that he has resigned as speaker, saying “there is no iota of truth in such report.”

POLICE in Rivers State have rescued a former permanent secretary in the state civil service, Chief Solomon Ordu, who was kidnapped in his residence by unknown gunmen last Monday.