Contrary toinsinuations that Apapa-Iganmu Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, was paying street urchins popularly known as area boys, Chairman of the council, Dr. Samuel Adedayo, has denied the speculations, describing same as a calculated attempt to discredit his achievements.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, tasked Nigerians to see their diversity as a strength to achieve the common good of the country. He said without unity, Nigeria cannot meet any of its socio-economic challenges.

The Lagos District Superintendent, Assemblies of God, Nigeria, Rev. Joseph Okafor, has cautioned parties involved in the ongoing legal battle between the suspended President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa-Ayo Salami and the immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu. He said the matter should be resolved in line with the law of the land.

APM Terminals Apapa Limited has said its involvement in the trucking of containers for scanning was not for profit making but aimed at easing the congestion problem at the scanning site before it took over the function, formally.

National Coordinator of the Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, Otunba Gani Adams, has dissociated himself from comments by Oodua Nationalist Coalition, on the suspension of President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami by the National Judicial Council, NJC.

The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has advised all Nigerians to be vigilant. The First Lady who gave the advice when she visited victims of the August 26 bomb blast the rocked the UN House said though the situation was sympathetic, she was thankful to God that some of the victims hospitalised at the National Hospital and Abuja Clinic were alive and responding to treatment.

MASSIVE flood, resulting from downpour and the overflow of the ocean, have ravaged communities in Ugborodo, Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State.

Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III yesterday condemned last Friday’s bomb explosion at the UN Secretariat in Abuja describing it as an abominable act in Islam, especially in the blessed month of Ramadan.

FORMER President of the Senate, Chief Ken Nnamani, has described the South-East Economic Summit holding Thursday and Friday in Enugu as a veritable platform for leaders of the geo-political zone to interact and chart a new dynamic, political and economic future for the people.

THE Enugu State Government has, in addition to the payment of the minimum wage, also cleared the arrears of its civil servants in the implementation of the N18,000 minimum wage law. The above disclosure was made in a statement signed by Chuks Ugwoke, the state Commissioner for Information.