THE restoration of the Abuja master plan became a sing-song during the Mallam Nasir El-Rufai’s tenure as FCT Minister. During the period, several buildings worth billions of naira were demolished for the simple reason of restoring the Abuja master plan and maintaining environmental cleanliness and sanity in the federal capital Abuja.

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Wednesday, arrested the former Managing Director of defunct Bank PHB, Mr. Francis Atuche, in connection with ongoing investigations into operations of the bank.

Bauchi — The Bauchi State government, Wednesday, assured that secondary school students will still sit for this year’s WAEC, NABTEB, NECO and JAMB examinations irrespective of the on-going strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools, ASUSS, which has led to the detention of 11 of the teachers for about two weeks now.

“WHAT affects one of us affects every other governor,” one of the antagonists in the feud among the governors belonging to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP told Vanguard weeks before the feud came to a climax. It is as such not surprising that given the increasing divide among the governors in their attitude towards the presidency, that virtually all of them are agreed on supporting their embattled colleague in Adamawa State, Admiral Murtala Nyako.

Hon. Bimbo Daramola, who represents Ekiti North Federal Constituency, Ekiti State in the House of Representatives on the plank of the Action Congress of (ACN) is disturbed by the flickering flames of insecurity in the country and argues that apart from dialogue, the government can tame the menace if it had the will. In this interview, Daramola, who gave reasons he left the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, also averred that state police would help the anti-insecurity crusade. Excerpts: