CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on Nigerian Navy, Senator Chris Anyanwu, has decried the neglect of the Nigerian Navy for so long, assuring that the legislature would work with the leadership of the Navy to upgrade it to global standards.

There was a vacancy in Heaven for a Master of Ceremonies and Ikenna Ndaguba MFR was recruited. No other title other than ‘Onwa’ (literally ‘The Moon’) would have better captured the essence of a man who brought laughter, mirth and illumination to others and his environment.

THE speculations that the Ondo State governor Dr Olusegun Mimiko is planning to dump the Labour Party, LP, for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ahead of the 2013 governorship election in the state has been dismissed.

NIGERIAN Navy has acquired six new gun boats to enhance its operations in the creeks and waterways of Niger Delta region.

Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State is said to have ordered for 30 Armoured Personnel Carriers, APC and a hundred Toyota hilux vans to assist the police to combat the rising crime wave in the state especially armed robberies.

A United States-based Nigerian lawyer, Mr Ephraim Ugwuonye, was, Tuesday, arraigned before a Lagos High Court sitting in Lagos, by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly stealing $94,948 belonging to his client, Sola Adeyo.

Just Foods Limited said it is eyeing the Nigerian capital market for funds to finance its planned investment in steel fabrication and in the production of stainless steel products in Nigeria in the medium to long term.

Residents of Iyesi Ota community of Ogun State have appealed to Governor Ibikunle Amosun to come to their aid by providing security for them against thugs hired by a land agent who have been terrorising them.

Residents of Kirikiri Town, Lagos State have urged the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA, to restrain from extorting operators of the oil tank farms operating in the area, in other to allow them fulfill their social responsibilities to the area.

An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan, has ordered the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Mr Moses Oniriti, to immediately arrest former caretaker chairman of Ibarapa Central Local Government Area of Oyo State, Akinyemi Akinlabi, to answer charges preferred against him by the state government.