ABUJA – FOLLOWING its alleged refusal to pay pensioners of Nigerian Postal Service, NIPOST, and other agencies of government, the Senate yesterday issued warrant of arrests on the Managing Director of Industrial and General Insurance Company (IGI) and the entire management over alleged pension fraud.

Lagos State House of Assembly, yesterday, set up a committee to draft the state memoranda for the constitutional amendment being proposed by the National Assembly.

Dr Obinna Duruji, the Imo State Commissioner for Information and Strategy in an online interview reviews the first year of the Rochas Okorocha administration and responds to contentious issues that have recently stirred the political ambience in the state. Excerpts:

Osun State Government has expelled no fewer than 34 students of Ifelodun Grammar School, Kiloru, who are natives of Ilowa in Obokun Local Government Area of the state for their alleged participation in the protest against continuous trial of the Alowa of Ilowa, Adebukola Alli, who is standing trial before an Osogbo High Court for alleged rape of an ex- female corps member.

LAGOS—Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, Mr. George Uriesi, yesterday appeared before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in its Abuja office.

GOVERNOR Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, yesterday, threatened to drag his predecessor in office, Mr. Segun Oni to court , if he continued to parade himself as a former governor of the state.

Yenagoa – The police in Bayelsa State, yesterday, said 35 suspected cultists, including a 27-year-old man allegedly involved in the killing and burying of a youth at Edepie suburb of Yenagoa, have been arrested in the state in the wake of its renewed clamp down on cultism in the state.

Super Eagles boss, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, has expressed dismay over the reported injury to Inter Milan of Italy midfielder, Joel Obi, declaring that the player has always been in his plans in the national scheme of things.

The Ogun State Police Command, yesterday, said it killed four robbery suspects and recovered three locally-made pistols after bursting a robbery attack on a bus on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway.

Despite the global economic crisis, Africa’s growth and development trajectory remains positive with sub-Saharan Africa set to grow at more than five percent. This was the conclusion of international investors, business and political leaders at the 2012 World Economic Forum (WEF) Africa in Addis Ababa on Africa’s remarkable transformation.