IN the name undertaking tours and other ingenious devices, public office holders often steal public coffers empty. It does not matter that for all intents and purposes, the tour has no direct, indirect, immediate or future relevance.

The lawmaker representing Ogbaru Federal Constituency in the House of Represen- tatives, Mr. Afam Ogene, wants the federal and state governments to sanction any traditional ruler that got involved in politics.

An Imo State High Court has awarded a N25 million damages against Julius Berger Nigeria Plc and others for gross violation of the fundamental rights of a Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Emeka Ozoani.

UGHELLI—EX-MILITANT leader in the Niger Delta region, Mr Kingsley Muturu, Monday, said ex-militants in the region would support the 2015 presidential ambition of Dr Jonathan Goodluck.

MAKURDI—A group under the aegis of Concerned Arewa Patriots, CAP, Monday, wants the north to produce the president of the country in 2015, saying it would not only solve the current problem of insecurity in the country but would compensate for the truncated tenure of late President Umaru Yar’Adua.

At least five persons, among them, a final year Nigerian student who schools at the North American University Houdegbe, in Benin Republic, have been killed in a renewed cult war in Mushin area of Lagos.

DAMATURU—gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram sect, in Yobe State, Monday torched the Bara Divisional Police Station, council secretariat complex and two telecommunications masts.

By Ayo Onikoyi In a groundbreaking initiative aimed at bolstering access to essential child health commodities, Chi Pharmaceuticals Limited, a renowned indigenous pharmaceutical company, unveiled zinc sulphate tablets and low osmolality oral rehydration salts during a product launch event in Lagos, Nigeria. Spearheading this milestone is pharmacist Olubunmi Ogbodu, the first female public health pharmacist […]

The Minister of State for Power, Hajia Zainab Ibrahim Kuchi, has said that Federal Government’s commitment to settlement of Severance Benefits of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), Staff is informed by the relevance of the exercise to the attainment of the Power Sector Roadmap and the overall realization of the Transformation Agenda of the administration.

Indigenous marginal field operator, Waltersmith Petroleum Oil Limited, is currently musing setting up a 5,000 barrel per day capacity greenfield refinery, to be located in Ohaji Egbema, Imo State.