Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, met with men of the Neighbourhood Watch, a security outfit the state created, and stakeholders in the security sector over increasing security threat in state in the wake of recent arrest of some terror suspects.

The 2015 presidential ticket of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, remains open to all eligible members of the party, Chief Anthony Anenih, Chairman, Board of Trustees, BoT, of the party assured yesterday as he took the olive branch to Minna, Niger State.

Senate, yesterday, said it was prepared to back capital punishment for oil thieves and those engaged in bunkering if it would solve the problem of pipeline vandalism.

The Governor of Kwara State, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has warned that contractors who fail to complete projects on schedule would be sanctioned.

COMPTROLLER General of Customs (CGC), Dikko Inde Abdullahi has reiterated the readiness of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) to take over the Destination Inspection service provided by the four Service Providers when their extended contracts expire in June, some three months away.

FORMER President of Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, Dr. Chris Ekiyor, yesterday, said the people of Niger Delta would support President Goodluck Jonathan for a second tenure but on the condition that the East-West Road was delivered before 2015.

Speaking at Asaba, Delta State, Ekiyor, said: “The decision for Jonathan to run in 2015 is not mine, it is not for anybody to decide. But the decision for him to remain in office is Nigerians’.

The peace of Odi town in the Kolokuma-Opokuma council area was violated, Tuesday night, as unknown gunmen kidnapped the mother of Bayelsa Commissioner for Local Government and Rural Development, James Dugo.

MOST Nigerians probably never knew that there was the female wing of militants or freedom fighters, as some youths who delved into militancy in the Niger Delta region, preferred to be addressed. Veronica (not her real name) told Vanguard Metro, VM, during her graduation ceremony from the Centre for Creative Arts Education, CREATE run by popular Nollywood actress, Hilda Dokubo, that she was in charge of the armoury in one of the camps.

Sectarian clashes in volatile central Nigeria have left 23 people dead last week, in a region where bitter ethnic disputes have killed thousands in recent years, the military told AFP Wednesday.

Nine cases of the Wild Polio Virus have been recorded in four states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, from January this year to date, the Executive Secretary, National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, NPHCDA, Dr. Ado Mohammed has said.