The disclosure by First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan of the critical nature of her health, Monday, aroused scathing criticisms from opposition political parties and some of the country’s leading civic society groups.

The 1996 Olympic gold medalist, Mr. Mobi Oparaku, has finally traced the operational base of the policemen that brutalized him last Thursday, to the Shell Camp Police Division, Owerri.

PORT HARCOURT— PLANS to site Africa’s largest fertilizer plant in Eleme, Rivers State, by 2015, could be hampered by the host community’s determination to see that the project does not materialise in absence of a satisfactory Environmental Impact Assessment, EIA.

BENIN—THE new Commissioner of Police in Edo State, Mr. Foluso Adebanjo, Monday, assumed duties in the state with a warning to kidnappers and armed robbers to relocate from the state or meet their waterloo.

OWERRI—Imo State governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, has terminated the appointment of two commissioners in the state’s Civil Service Commission, CSC.

Jos—Activities may soon be paralysed in Plateau State Government-owned tertiary institutions following a threat by workers to resume their suspended strike over unpaid salaries and allowances.

An Assistant Superintendent of Customs, ASC Baba Mohammed, was yesterday shot dead by his colleague, Mr. Oseni Musa Tunde, a Deputy Superintendent of Customs, DSC, following a scuffle with suspected smugglers at the Seme-Badagry area of Lagos.

Authorities of Bayero University, Kano has concluded plans to hold a special lecture in honour of President, Nigeria Academy of Letters, Professor Munzali Jibril.

Coach of Nigeria national U20 team John Obuh has returned to the team, and will be travelling with the squad to Cairo Egypt.

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, Monday, lamented the delay in the consideration of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, by the National Assembly, saying the delay is negatively affecting Nigeria’s competitiveness, making the country vulnerable and hindering the growth and transformation of the economy.

Meanwhile, Police in Bauchi said four Lebanese, one Briton, a Greek citizen and an Italian were among those taken hostage by gunmen who stormed a construction site in Jama’are in Bauchi state as the assailants shot dead a security guard.

WHEN little men with modest imagination, originality and creative depth are transposed to the high public offices they generally assume their idiosyncrasies to be existential social reality and consequently invade the public space with beguiled vanity and mediocrity.

Honeywell Flour Mills PLC has announced its nine operating results for 2012 which show profit before tax (PBT) rising marginally by 1% to N2.54 billion.

The following are the percentages of students who obtained five credits, including English and Mathematics in the May/June WAEC over the last five years: 23 per cent (2008), 26 per cent (2009), 24 per cent (2010), 31 per cent in 2011 and 39 per cent in 2012.

Statoil has initiated a sum of $1.1billion contract to Aker Solutions to supply detailed engineering services and also Korean firm Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering to build the topsides for the platform in the North Sea of Statoil’s Dagny.