The Federal Government is set to change its trade policy, the current Free on Board, FOB, to Cost, Insurance and Freight, CIF, which most countries across the world use, because of its economic benefits, before the end of the year.

A MOTIVATIONAL speaker Mr. Peter Okorugbo, has said the current efforts at finding a solution to the Boko Haram insurgency will remain a mirage except the religious undertone of the crisis is addressed.

There is a salient fact on which many have agreed without any dissent. It is the apparent poverty of Nigerians in spite of abundant human and naturally endowed mineral resources.

A recent two day conference on strengthening relations between the legislative and executive arms of the Federal Government was an insightful and useful voyage for players in both arms.

THE Commander, Nigeria Navy Service, NNS Delta, Warri Naval Base, Commodore Mohammed Garba was bubbly, last weekend, as he verbalised on the several battles between his men and oil thieves in Delta State in the last few months.

CHIEF Great Ovedje Ogboru has resonated as a political factor as a result of his bid to govern his home state of Delta since 2003. In this interview, Chief Ogboru who was emphatic that he had not lost any election speaks of the status of the legal battles for the governorship of Delta, attempts to ruin his businesses, amnesty a la militancy and Boko Haram, and President Goodluck Jonathan. Excerpts:

ALHAJI Abdulahi Faskari is the Deputy Governor, Katsina State. He is not new to matters of state, having
been in government since 2003 when the former governor of the state and later president , the late Umaru Yar’Adua, appointed him as the state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice. He was reappointed to the same ministry when Alhaji Ibrahim Shehu Shema became governor in 2007.

Last week, I wrote about conflicts (legal and otherwise) between my Governor, Chibuike Amaechi, and his opponents in Rivers State and the Presidency (the former insist that they are operating independently and are not being backed by the latter. But many onlookers are finding it hard to take this denial seriously).

HEARING in a suit by the Caretaker Committee of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, before a Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, praying the court to order the Police to vacate Obio/Akpor council secretariat, will continue today.

WARRI—THE Administrative Judge of Delta State High Court, Warri Judicial Division, Justice Marshall Mukoro, has warned the Ijaw litigants in the case between the state government and Okere community, seeking to be joined in the matter, not to come to him again trying to influence him over their intention to be joined in the case.