ILORIN— Former Inspector General of Police, IGP, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie, yesterday, expressed concern over the current security challenges facing the country, saying it was threatening its corporate existence.

The construction of a link road between Shasha and Akonjo has opened up the area to lots of commercial activities. This development has impacted positively on the lives of residents of these areas.

PORT HARCOURT — PROTEST over the political crisis in Rivers State continued, Monday, with placard carrying demonstrators, causing traffic in major streets of Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of the state.

A 51-year-old businessman, Frank Ezuma, was Monday, arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate’ Court for allegedly stealing N25 million belonging to Industrial Metal Processing Company Nigeria Ltd.

As part of its efforts to reduce joblessness in the country, the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA, said it would employ the services of 17,000 youths under the Subsidy Re-Investment Empowerment Programme, SURE-P who will ensure the continuous maintenance of Federal roads across the country.

…receives N2.8bn EEG grants
Cadbury Nigeria Plc is paying its shareholders dividend totaling N1.564 billion for financial year ended December 31, 2012.

When some representatives of five oil communities in Delta State travelled all the way to the National Assembly complex in Abuja late last month, they somehow succeeded in giving life to the over flogged issue of the transfer of Shell shares in some onshore blocks.

Vice-Chancellor of Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka, Professor Eric Arubayi, has given financial assistance worth N4.7 million to deserving students of the institution.

JUSTICE H.A. Nganjiwa of a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, yesterday, ordered the Police to immediately vacate Obio Akpor local government secretariat for work to resume at the place.

BENIN—THE Crown Prince of Benin Kingdom, HRH Ambassador Ehenede Erediauwa, weekend, described Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State as the Messiah of Edo State politics, saying that the people of the state must pray to God and the ancestors to give the state another Oshiomhole after his tenure in office.