The national and Ondo State leadership of Traders and Markets Leaders of Nigeria have declared their support for the second term bid of Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko.

ON World Press Freedom Day in Nigeria, there was no press statement from the various media groups in the country. There were no rallies, conferences or visitations by the journalists or media groups. When the press releases came, they were late.

Worried by the incessant gridlock along Oshodi-Apapa Expressway and determined to address the situation, Lagos State Government has issued a fresh four-day ultimatum to tanker and trailer drivers as well as owners of vehicles parked illegally along the axis to remove them from road side or face wrath of the law.

BORNO State Government said, yesterday, that the state was not a failed one and it should not be used as the whipping child for the failure of the nation’s leaders to address the insecurity situation.

The Federal Government is committing N276 billion, secured as loans from commercial banks, to reach five million farmers this year, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, has said.

BENIN—FORMER deputy governor to Chief John Odigie-Oyegun in the aborted Third Republic, Reverend Peter Obadan, yesterday advanced reasons why he dumped Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN.

BENIN – THE Ugbor Community Development Association, UCDA, in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State, has called for a thorough investigation to ascertain the circumstances under which its Youth Chairman, Mr. Sunday Idurobo, was allegedly murdered.

The Director of the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, Mr. Osten Olorunsola, has disclosed that the Federal Government would soon commence the bidding process for the award of marginal oil fields to interested Nigerian companies over the next few weeks.

YENAGOA- BAYELSA State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has warned cultists in the state to renounce membership or be prepared to spend 10 years behind bars.

A conclave in honour of the publisher of Leadership Newspapers turns into a discourse on the leadership failure of the country.

First Bank of Nigeria Plc said it has committed about N500 billion to financing oil and gas projects in Nigeria, to enhance local capacity and competitiveness, its Executive Director for Corporate Banking, Mr. Kehinde Lawanson, has said.

Revenues from taxes allow government to make long-term and sustainable planning than earnings from oil, said John Jegede, President, the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN).

Out-going Vice- Chancellor of Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, FUNNAB, Professor Olaiya Balogun, yesterday, said he received no fewer than 200 death threats prior to the selection of his successor two months ago.

The people of Igboeze North in Enugu State have asked the Attorney-General of Enugu State, Mr. Anthony Ani, to resign his appointment for allegedly lying to the people over the status of the kidnap case against the current Chairman of the local government, Mr. Bonaventure Onuh and three others.

Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, LASIEC, said no fewer than 100 policemen would be deployed for tomorrow’s re-run election in Ward ‘H’ Oduselu/Ola in Mushin Local Government Area of the state.