A 49-year-old man, Henry Okojie and three others, were arraigned yesterday, before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court, for allegedly stealing a company’s property valued at N7million.

The Federal Government has decided to look for alternative means to fund the metering gap currently being experienced by electricity consumers in the country.

The people of Uzere in Delta State have denied media reports, alleging that the crisis rocking the community was political and sponsored by former Chief of Defence Staff, General Alexander Ogomudia(rtd).

A senior lawyer, Chief Ajobila Aribisala, whose rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria was recently withdrawn by Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee, has dragged the committee and Fidelity Bank Plc before a Lagos High Court, challenging the committee’s decision to deprive him the use of the rank of SAN.

There was palpable tension at Ijegwu community in Obi local government area of Benue State following the alleged shooting of a student by a police officer, weekend, after a heated argument.

The House of Representatives, yesterday, declared that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, was indebted to the Federal Government to the tune of N142.7billion.

THE Acting Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Dr. Abdulrahaman Sambo has said 98 percent of health workers in the Federal government employ has keyed into the Scheme.

In a bid to promote the health and wellbeing of the Nigerian Child, MultiPro Enterprises Limited, makers of Hypo Super Bleach has partnered with the Lagos State Ministry of Health in the just – concluded Polio Immunization Plus Days Campaign which was flagged off at Ipaja Mini Stadium, Ayobo-Ipaja Local Council Development Area (LCDA) recently.

Imo State Deputy Governor, Sir Jude Agbaso, has appealed to security agencies in Nigeria to investigate the owner(s) of the bank account(s) into which the alleged N458 million bribe was paid into.

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, has said 18 states of the federation were set for integration into basic HIV/AIDS services at the lowest level of health care delivery in the country.

As part of activities marking the International Women’s Day, hundreds of women took to the streets in Lagos, weekend, to walk against rape in the society.

The house of Representatives yesterday queried the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) over discrepancies in the remittance of N7.935 billion generated by the Nigerian Customs Service to the Federation Account in 2007.

…Says he’ll contest governorship
THE story of the gruff and grudge contest for the Ekiti Central Senatorial ticket of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN in 2011 was one that stretched the imaginations of the partisans of that party. The struggle for the ticket was a keen contest between three close associates of the ACN national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu: Babafemi Ojudu, Opeyemi Bamidele and Dele Alake. The ACN which had won the reputation of not conducting primaries, had to side-step tradition as it was forced to conduct a primary to nominate a candidate due to the unwavering determination of the three men to get the better over one another.

The Federal Government has taken steps to create a greater investor-confidence in the capital market by ensuring that operators who take advantage of investors were brought to book.

THE terrible condition of Ago Place Way in the Isolo Local Council Development Area of Lagos State has remained unresolved.