THE Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State, closed down in the wake of the clash between students and masquerades in the host community on March, 25, 2012, will reopen today, May 2, 2012.

Federal Ministry of Agriculture has been queried by the Auditor-General of the Federation over an alleged N1.9 billion scam bordering on diversion of funds for the purchase of fertilizers.

Nsukka – Former factional Chairman of the defunct Nigerian People’s Party, NPP, in the Second Republic, Senator Nathaniel Anah, SAN, has said the current Nigerian leaders lack the needed courage and dedication to tackle corruption and provide social amenities for the electorate.

AHEAD of the actualisation of Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in the country in the next few months, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has directed network operators to provide the service free to subscribers. Mobile Number Portability allows subscribers to migrate from one service provider to another and still retain their numbers.

Federal Government has said that it will continue to encourage robust partnership between the multinational and indigenous companies operating in Nigeria’s petroleum industry.

Rights activist and President of the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria, CRCN, Mallam Shehu Sani, yesterday, lampooned President Goodluck Jonathan, saying his ‘’transformation agenda,’’ lacked a human face.

EXCEPT by legal abracadabra, Chinonye Lucky, a 26 -year- old mother of two who is also expecting her third child, may spend the rest of her life behind bars for a first degree murder. She is currently at the custody of the homicide department of the Edo state Police command, Benin city, where detectives are already putting finishing touches to her cases file. She is due for arraignment any moment from now for allegedly poisoning a 16- month-old baby boy with a killer chemical while the mother of the baby was away to fetch water.

BENIN – THE Benin National Congress, BNC, a socio-cultural organization in Edo State, yesterday, lamented alleged lack of Federal Government projects in oil-rich Ikpoba Okhai Local Government Area of the state.

A Lebanese and two Nigerians have been arrested in connection with the murder of a bureau-de-change operator on Monday inside a hotel in Apapa area of Lagos.

The IT Business Incubation Development Centre committee earlier set up the Ministry of Communication Technology has said that most of the ICT departments in Nigerian universities were not updated regularly, resulting in a generally low quality of knowledge among ICT graduates who are potential entrepreneurs.