RECENTLY, the National Coalition on Affirmative Action, NCAA, appealed to Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State to sign into law the Gender and Equal Opportunity Bill reportedly passed in 2007 and 2010 by the Anambra State House of Assembly but not yet accented to by the Governor.

Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State has disengaged services of tax consultants engaged by his predecessor, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau as part of efforts to reinvigorate activities of the state Board of Internal Revenue, BIR.

The proposed six-year single term for the President and Governors received a knock, yesterday, as civil society organisations described the idea as unfortunate and anti-democratic. They said it portends danger for accountability and the fight against corruption in the country.

Further hearing in the charge of unlawful possession of fire arms against embattled Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, chieftain and House of Representatives candidate for Okpe, Uvwie and Sapele Constituency, Mr. Michael Omuvwie and Mr. Shedrack Famous, before a Sapele Magistrate Court, Delta State, has been adjourned till August 2.

THE Archbishop of Metropolitan See of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, has said the Islamic banking as proposed by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, was a ploy to Islamise the country.

MINISTER of Aviation, Mrs. Stella Oduah, weekend, said her Ministry will use the recently completed Asaba International Airport, Delta State, as a model.

Three thousand former militants, yesterday, in Ughelli, Delta State, alleged that they were denied admission into the ongoing Federal Government amnesty proggramme.

Momentous days for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP commence today with a meeting of the board of trustees of the party.Today’s meeting is to precede Thursday’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting where crucial decisions on the soul and direction of the party would be taken.

The embattled former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Dimeji Bankole, yesterday, urged an Abuja High Court in Apo, to compel the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to prosecute the Clerk of the House, Mr Sani Omolori, over the alleged N40 billion loan scam.

A former member of Nigeria’s Davis Cup team, Sadiq Abdullahi has released a tennis master plan which he hopes would stimulate the development of tennis in the country in the next ten years.

The National Building Code which stipulates the procedure and minimum practice requirements for the development of the various types of buildings required for human occupancy in Nigeria was approved by the National Executive Council as well as the Council of State as far back as 2006.

FOLLOWING recent sale of some of its onshore oil blocs in Nigeria, a move which has casted doubts on the company’s intention to remain in the country, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd (SPDC) has said that divestment of its equity from some oil blocs in the Niger Delta is compliant with its contractual rights and regulatory frameworks which guide the oil industry in Nigeria.

Apparently disturbed by the housing shortfall now put at a staggering 17 million units, built environment experts have advocated the adoption of cheap, faster and durable methods of housing construction in the country.

SOKOTO State government has trained 5,725 youths in various trades and skill acquisition. Governor Aliyu Wamakko disclosed this yesterday at the graduation ceremony of the programme.

Some youths from four communities in Kolo Creek – Imiringi, Elebele, Otuasega and Oruma – today (July 14) protested at SPDC JV’s Kolo Creek field logistics base, about not being supplied with electricity from company facilities.