The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has distanced itself from the inclinations of former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the continuance of Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal as Speaker of the House of Representatives and membership of the party of former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel.

The Special Adviser, S.A., to the President on Niger Delta and Chief Executive Officer of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Kungsley Kuku, yesterday revealed that the programme had a lifespan of five years and would, therefore, end in 2015.

I have, in this column, recently complained about the unsatisfactory manner in which the government is responding to the United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, report about the devastating effects of oil production activities in Ogoniland.

In May 2006, when the renowned World Economist and former Managing Director of the World Bank, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was at the helm of affairs at the Federal Ministry of Finance, she invited some experts at World Customs Organisation (WCO) to audit the performance of the Nigeria Customs Service.

Director General of the Standards Organisations of Nigeria, SON, Dr. Joseph Odumodu yesterday declared zero tolerance on substandard goods in Nigeria, warning that the country will no longer be a dumping ground for products not good enough for citizens of the producers’ countries.

The last time Annie Macaulay talked about her relationship with 2Face Idibia her ex-beau and father to her daughter, it was on a note of finality.

IKEJA-Lagos State Police Commissioner, Mr. Yakubu Alkali, Thursday, said the suspected combustive substance discovered Wednesday at Ikeja Local Government Secretariat lacked every major component of an Improvised Explosive Device, IED, commonly known as bomb, at the end of the analysis carried out by the Bomb Disposal Unit.

ABUJA-In appreciation of the difficulties faced by police officers and men in transit as a result of transfers and movement for special duties, the Federal Government is taking steps to provide comfortable transit camps in all police divisions nationwide.

THE National Economic Management Team, NEMT, chaired by President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, moved to fix the perennial challenges in the agriculture sector with an approval of an Agricultural Transformation Action Plan, ATAP, that has the capacity to generate over 3.5 million jobs, leads to injection of N410 billion (about $2.58 billion) into the economy, and enrich farmers with over N300 billion (about $2 billion) in the next four years.

Nollywood actress Stephanie Okereke has landed an ambassadorial deal with Japanese Corporation ‘Kaneka’, makers of ‘Kanekalon’ hair fibre.