Oil leak resulting from operational hazard has forced the Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, SNEPCo, to shut down its 200,000 barrel per-day capacity Bonga deepwater facility, approximately 120 kilometres off the Nigerian coast.

Former Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, president, Mr. Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, has described the action of Lagos State government over tolling on Lekki-Epe road as subjudice since an action for stay of execution on the matter is pending before the Court of Appeal.

The Federal High Court yesterday in Ibadan declared the continuous threat of a leader of the banned National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Alhaji Lateef Akinsola, aka Tokyo, by the Oyo State Police Command is illegal and unconstitutional.

MR Emeka Ochin, Special Assistant on Political Matters to the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekeremadu, was on Tuesday arrested and detained at the 9th Mile Police Station, Enugu, for allegedly torturing and inflicting injuries on a sculptor and his two sons.

PRELATE of Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence, Ola Makinde, yesterday, joined issues with Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, describing the latter’s criticism of the Anti-Gay Bill passed by the Senate as unfortunate and regrettable.