BENIN CITY-EDO State Government, Tuesday, vowed to commence legal action against hospitality business operators who have failed to register with the state’s Board of Internal Revenue as enshrined in the Consumption Tax Law which was signed into law in June 2011.

LAGOS – Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, may have abandoned no fewer than 250 containers, containing vital equipment imported to boost power generation in the country, as Nigerians continue to groan under epileptic power supply.

LAGOS -The five-day industrial action by Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria, AMLSN, Tuesday, took a violent dimension, as AMLSN members, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, LUTH, Chapter drove away resident doctors, alleged to have taken over the laboratory and blood bank in the hospital.

Abeokuta-The Ogun House of Assembly has directed the state Bureau of Project Monitoring and Evaluation to submit a detailed report on all projects executed in the state under the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, from 2008 to date.

Former Director-General of Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, Mr. Ben Murray-Bruce, Tuesday, described reports that he had been disqualified from contesting November 19, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, primaries for Bayelsa State governorship election as wild rumours and falsehood.

LAGOS -The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos, Tuesday, set aside the judgment of the Lagos National Assembly Election Tribunal, which dismissed the petition by Labour Party, LP, against the declaration of Mrs Oluremi Tinubu of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN…

WARRI-THE Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company, WRPC, in Delta State has been commended by the traditional ruler of Uvwie kingdom, HRM Emmanuel Sideso, Abe 1 for donating a 100kva Mikano sound proof generating set to the Ekpan General Hospital in Uvwie Council area of the state.

OSOGBO- GOVERNOR Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State, Tuesday said his administration would strive to re-enact the glorious days of late Chief Obafemi Awolowo in the South-Western region through his six-point integral programme.

The story is told of one contributor at the US Congress, who forced his colleagues to listen to him, barring interruptions with the curt retort, “I speak for posterity.”

THE kwata between former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, and the Code of Conduct Bureau appears to be taking a messy turn with the reported snubbing of the VP, Namadi Sambo, who had been on official visit to Osun by Rauf Aregbesola over the PDP’s alleged failure to allow Tinubu’s supporters into the venue of his trial last week. It’s a big fight the ACN insists the PDP is stage-managing for purely political reasons.