ABUJA – Ahead of today’s democracy day celebrations, Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, has warned politicians and political stakeholders to stop heating up the polity by their utterances and to eschew acts capable of endangering the survival of democracy in the country.

Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change, NDIMRC, has urged the Petroleum Minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, to sanction multi-national oil companies, which fail to implement the Nigeria’s Local Content Law.

Gombe State government has given immediate employment to 1,997 youths who have successfully completed their training under the state government Youth Rehabilitation and Empowerment Programme, YREP.

ABUJA – An Abuja High Court, yesterday, slated July 2 to rule on two separate preliminary objections, seeking to abort the prosecution of the former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Capital Market and Other Institutions, Mr. Herman Hembe and his erstwhile deputy, Mr. Chris Ifeanyi Azubogu over their alleged complicity in a N44 million bribery scandal.

Poor awareness of Nigerians, policy makers and organised private sector on the value of research in national development has been blamed for poor research findings in the country.

GOVERNOR Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State yesterday, warned that communities involved in communal wars would no longer enjoy infrastructural development as the state government was determined to implement its policy on “No peace, No Amenity” in the affected communities.

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THE circumstances surrounding the brutal murder of three blood brothers at their family house in Ikot-Ekpene, has continued to generate tension in Akwa-Ibom State following allegations by the family of the victims that some security operatives were responsible for the death.

UMUAHIA—ABIA State Governor, Chief Theodore has vowed to hold transition committee chairmen and traditional rulers of the three oil producing Local Government Areas in the state responsible for future cases of pipeline vandalisation in the area. The three Local Government Areas are Ukwa East, Ukwa West and Ugwunagbo.

ABEOKUTA- Speaking for the first time about the controversy that dogged his comments on the terrible state of roads in his domain during the immediate past administration of former governor, Gbenga Daniel, the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, yesterday, recalled his ordeal, saying his harmless, candid appeal almost cost him his throne.

OSOGBO – National Chairman, Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, and former Kaduna State governor, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, yesterday, in Osogbo, blamed Nigerian leaders for the current problems in the country, saying the problems would persist unless the Federal Government provided permanent solution to unemployment.

Nutrients are substances required for growth and development of the child, but there are specific nutrients children may not be likely to take in adequate quantities to support their development and immunity. Such nutrients are known as “nutrients at risk”, explains Professor Emmanuel Ekanem , Head of Paediatric Gastronterology and Nutrition Unit, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Akwa Ibom state, Nigeria.

The Executive Director in charge of Engineering Services at the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency FERMA, Mr Hassan Mohammed has assured that the multi-million Naira 80 tonne per hour asphalt plant being constructed by the agency at its Ijora, Lagos office would be ready by the end of June, 2012.

A total of fourteen investors are vying for the Federal capital territory’s land swap scheme geared towards the provision of affordable housing in the territory. Top on the list is Nigeria’s Dangote Group Plc and Edimo Gruppo of Italy.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, justified why the Federal Government must accord the state a special status in the revenue allocation formula, stressing that “Lagos is to Nigeria what the neck is to the body.”

The managements of Niger Delta Power Holding Company of Nigeria, NDPHCN, has warned that erring contractors currently executing the National Integrated Power Projects, NIPP, across the country risk possible sanctions.