Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun State and Vice-Chairman of Omoilu Foundation, Alhaji Muniru Idris, has faulted media reports of last Tuesday’s court proceedings in the trial of the State PDP Chairman, Chief Dayo Soremi and four others.

A Chinese, Mr. Ding Shaw, and a Nigerian, Mr. Ifeanyi Dike, have been arrested by Federal Operations Unit, FOU, Zone ‘A’ of the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, for allegedly attempting to export a container load of metal scraps through the Apapa port, in Lagos.

ANY one who has seen the high walls of the Port Harcourt prisons would certainly doubt if it is possible to scale over it. But it happened last Sunday.

Osun state government has revealed plans to attract about 20,000 tourists from the Diaspora with the the annual Osun Osogbo festival from which it hope to generate about N7.5billion by the year 2015.

The Athletics Federation of Nigeria have named a team of 17 athletes to represent the country at the forthcoming World Athletics Championships holding in Daegu, South Korea between August 27 and September 4, 2011.

The Nigerian Academy of Letters, NAL, yesterday inducted Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati as a fellow.

It will be a celebrated effort if religious leadership in Nigeria would take full advantage of the present war-cry by Muslims to declare total war on the “Destroyer” (fraud and corruption). This will be a blessing accruing from the unfortunate statement by the Sharia Council.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs Ambassador, Olugbenga Ashiru, has charged Nigerian Ambassadors abroad to aggressively market the country’s investment opportunities, in order to attract foreign direct investment into the country.

Dr Akpan Micah Umoh is a member of the House of Representatives representing Ikot asi/Mkpat/Enin/Eastern Obolo Federal Constituency in Akwa Ibom. An expert in environmental matters with a special bias in Climate Change, he was a director in Aluminum Smelter Company of Nigeria, ASCON for 15 years and two time Chairman of Akwa Ibom Board on Environment. In this interview he enumerates a new business format in the House of Representatives, espouses the advantages of the 6 year single tenure for president and governors and the delay in the constitution of House standing committees.

The National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, said it is now set to enforce the five compulsory insurances under the Market Development and Restructuring Initiative, MDRI, in September.