The Caretaker Chairman of Ibadan North West Local Government Area of Oyo State, Mr. Wasiu Olatubosun, has said the twin challenges of flooding and cholera outbreak posed a setback to the new administration particularly as they occurred at a time the government was settling down to begin its programmes.

Ford will feature an interactive display never seen before at a Motor Show in South Africa when the Johannesburg International Motor Show (JIMS) gets underway next month. With a host of exciting new models being unveiled by Ford and the all-new Ranger making its much anticipated South African debut, this year’s show is sure to get tongues wagging.

Senator Bala Mohammed, Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Minister, has called for increased participation of both Nigerian and foreign private investors in the development of the various sectors of the FCT. He stated that only 15 per cent of the territory has been developed.

Dissatisfied by the refusal of a magistrate’s court in Benin to grant bail to the embattled chairman of the Edo State Task Force on Demolition of Illegal Structures, Major Lawrence Loye (rtd), a group, Community Assistance and Cooperative Outreach, CACO, said it had assembled a team of lawyers to secure bail and enforce his fundamental rights.

Politicians and traditional rulers in Ondo State have intensified their lobbies to ensure that their candidates make the last list of the commissioner nominees, even as the screening of the 16 nominees submitted to the State House of Assemby by Governor Olusegun Mimiko is scheduled to hold any time from this week.

Forty one associations make up the DCCN. Among these members are Abuja Muslim Forum, AMF, Abuja; Abu Sheriff Islamic Organization, Ilorin; Al-Amin Foundation, Kaduna; Council for Dwah and Welfare of Converts, Bauchi; Council of Ulama of Nigeria, CUN, Kano; El-Kanemi College of Islamic Theology, Maiduguri.

WARRI- Illegal structures erected on the right-of-way of the multi-billion naira Trans-Warri-Ode-Itsekiri bridges and access road project are to be demolished.

Asaba- A senior staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has been rescued after four days in the kidnappers’ den, while N1.6 million collected by the kidnappers as part of N5 million demanded, was also recovered.

Retired Police officers from Edo State, under the aegis of Association of Retired Police Officers, have expressed their desire to be removed from the pension scheme introduced by the Federal Government in 2004 and be returned to the Nigeria Police Pension Scheme.

Dr. Sylvanus Nwafili, a senior lecturer at the University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT, has said that if attention was not paid to research, Nigeria will lose focus and might never attain its full potentials.

Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State has appointed Mr. Mike Aniah, former Commissioner for Public Utilities in Donald Duke’s administration, as Secretary to the State Government, SSG.

It was short and brutish: that text message I received that Wednesday evening from a friend, stating, “Ambassador Saidu Pindar is dead”. Initially I thought somebody was toying with death or playing a trick on me, thinking that because our political affiliations differed with the Ambassador, the news of any harm coming to him might not bother me.

Nigerian business men who encounter difficulties in trying to bring in commercial vehicles from Brazil can now heave a sigh of relieve as Systemic Commercial Vehicles, a Brazilian firm has moved to bridge the gap.

Former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who was summoned by the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, over the foreign bank accounts he held during his tenure as governor of Lagos State, has said that his trial scheduled to commence tomorrow was politically motivated.

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