The Manager of Peace Mass Transport, Company, PMTC, Mararaba branch, Mr John Asogwa, has expressed support for the Federal Government’s decision to re-introduce toll gates on the nation’s highways, and called on Nigerians to support the move.

Political Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak said PDP did not flout any court order by conducting the governorship election primary in Bayelsa State last Saturday.

Former Secretary of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Kano branch, Alhaji Sani Ya’u Babura has described the recent perceived plan by the federal government to remove fuel subsidy as a time bomb that will not yield any positive result to the country’s economy.

A DELTA State High Court sitting at Otor-Udu has ordered the Deputy Comptroller of Prisons at the Ogwashi-Uku prisons to produce before it the Managing Director of Mustard Seed Micro-Investment Limited, Pastor Glory Abrefera detained over alleged #42.5million fraud by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

IT is probably only in Nigeria that five young men would brutally rape a woman, record the vile act on video, circulate it on the internet, and yet go scot free.

THE election of Alhaji Kashim Shettima as the Governor of Borno state in the last April elections was recently upheld, by virtue of the dismissal of the petition filed by the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Alhaji Mohammed Goni, challenging the outcome of the election.

The official insurer of all the national teams of Nigeria, Industrial and General Insurance (IGI) has introduced an age-group for players between the ages of 15 and 19.

Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, Sunday, faulted President Goodluck Jonathan’s remarks that the country will crash if subsidy on petroleum products was not removed.

Some Nigerian travellers, weekend, raised alarm that British Airways was just charging arbitrary fares to all its destinations from the country, despite government’s insistence that prices must come down.

The Supreme Court will today commence hearing on the suit seeking to nullify two separate judgments that barred the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from including five states of Bayelsa, Sokoto, Cross River, Adamawa and Kogi, in the April 26 governorship elections.

NIGERIANS, yesterday, mourned the death of the Chairman and Publisher of The Guardian newspaper, Alexander Uruemu Ibru. Chief Ibru who died at about 1.30pm yesterday, while in the course of an illness, was aged 66.

The Federal Government said it will build new gas pipelines that will feed the power plants in the country, to end the constant cut of gas supply to the plants.

LAGOS- Fifteen years ago, precisely on February 3, 1996, Olorogun Alexander Uruemu Ibru popularly known as Alex Ibru, escaped death by the whiskers as he was attacked by some gun men who shot and badly wounded him on the Falomo Bridge in Lagos as he was driving home from work.

Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State, Sunday, declared that he was still in the gubernatorial race in spite of the primaries held Saturday and that he was prepared to pursue his course through democratic means. He challenged acting Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Abubakar Baraje, to come out with reasons why the party excluded him from its primaries.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan weekend blamed the poor international rating of Nigerian universities on lack of proper attention to research by the authorities of the institutions.