Tension mounted, yesterday, at Okpoko Layout, Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State, near Onitsha, when an operative of Okpoko vigilance group, simply identified as Stubborn, was gunned down by a gang of armed men, suspected to be robbers, who operated in motorbikes at Mugambo Market.

Kogi State Po-lice Command has nabbed one Egah John, 27, for allegedly defrauding unsuspecting members of the public while posing as an official of Department of State Services, DSS.

Efforts aimed at creating an agency saddled with responsibility of developing satelite towns in the Federal Capital Territory,FCT, received the support of Senate yesterday, as a bill to that effect scaled second reading.

The ‘no premium no cover’ policy of the National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, has thrown up a lot of challenges to insurance operators. In this interview, the General Manager/Chief Executive Officer of Wema Insurance Brokers, Mr. Gbenga Olawoyin, highlights how insurance operators are bracing up to the challenges.

Chief Remi Oguntuase, an aide to a member of the House of Representative, Opeyemi Bamidele, has been arrested by the officials of the Department of State Service, DSS, Ekiti State Command.

EBONYI State police command, yesterday, arrested one Ifeanyi Udu Anthony Igwe for allegedly killing one Ogodo Emmanuel, 24, of Amaofia village, Okposhi Ehuegu Ngbo in Ohaukwu local government area.

THE recent conquest of the air by 13-year-old Daniel Ohikhena, has once again brought to the fore the issue of security across Nigerian airports.

Senate President, David Mark, has asked the National Pension Commission, Pencom, not to invest the N3.50 trillion Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) in states yet to commence full implementation of the scheme.

The Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos was, yesterday, thrown into confusion as an underground armoured cable generating power to some parts of the terminals developed faults, leading to power outage at the airport.

U.S.-based Chevron Corp will receive bids on September 30 from prospective buyers of three oil blocks in the Niger Delta, with several local firms in the running, industry sources said yesterday.

The Economic and Finan-cial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has urged the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal to set aside the September 19 ruling of Justice Adamu Bello of the Federal High Court, Abuja, discharging former Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, Prof. Bridget Omotunde Sokan and six others in the N787 million fraud case instituted against them by the Commission.

IN this interview with BEN AGANDE in Abuja, founder and General Overseer of the Day Spring Christian Ministries International, Pastor Charles Olowojoba, speaks on a wide range of issues, saying contrary to the fears being expressed in certain circles, Nigeria will continue to remain one indivisible country and that the 2015 election will not only be free and fair, but it will not be bloody. Excerpts…

The Nigeria Football Federation has voided a ‘state of emergency’purportedly declared by the League Management Company and the Club Owners on Nigeria football.

Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has signed the State Water and Sanitation Law, with an assurance to increase access to potable water to 80 per cent by 2014.

It is not wishful. Neither it is a conjecture that the Itsekiris, whether consciously or otherwise, would prefer somebody of Anioma extraction to a candidate from any part of the state as governor in 2015.