PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, urged political leaders, stakeholders and elders to stop making provocative statements capable of dividing the country, stressing the need for statements that will build Nigeria.

Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria, NPAN, has urged the Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos to restrain the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria, APCON, from implementing the advertising code, which empowers it to vet and approve adverts before publication by print media in the country.

Oil giant, the Royal Dutch Shell Plc has notified the Nigerian government that it would like to buy some of U.S. firm, Chevron Nigeria’s licences.

PRELATE, Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence Sunday Ola Makinde, yesterday, joined the league of eminent Nigerians who are displeased by the recent multiple bomb blasts in Kano, which killed 15 innocent civilians.

A GROUP, Rivers Peoples Forum, RPF, yesterday, called for arrest and prosecution of the Minister of State for Education, Mr Nyesom Wike, over an alleged statement credited to him at a rally in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Chief Solomon Ogba whose name appeared on the list of Ministers designate is a chieftain of the PDP in Delta State.

SELF determination seeking Ogoni ethnic nationality in Rivers State has said it would drag Shell Petroleum Development Company, to court to stop the oil multinational from selling its assets in the area.

NO fewer than 123 Edo State civil servants, who were compulsorily retired from service in 2000 have dragged the state government to the National Industrial Court, sitting in Benin, over the non-payment of their pension arrears and non-implementation of the harmonised pensions arrears, among other claims.

AKURE — POLICE in Ondo State have arrested three persons for hurriedly burying an 18 year old boy, Sanmi Kehinde who allegedly shot himself dead with his father’s gun.

In a recent interactive section with the House of Representatives Committee on Banking and Currency, the Governor of the Central Bank, Lamido Sanusi, noted that if the plan to redesign naira notes last year was successful, “it would have made it impossible for counterfeiters to cook”. He further noted that best practice currency management is that “Within a period of 5 – 8 years, you redesign the currency, after which counterfeiters tend to catch up with you”.

Track and Field buff, Brown Ebewele is not happy that Nigeria would be participating at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow, Russia with just one athlete in mind.

OWERRI—Aggrieved staff of Imo Transport Company, ITC, have dragged the state government to the Federal High Court sitting in Owerri, over wrongful lease of the company to a private firm.

THERE are indications that President Goodluck Jonathan, might have ordered all federal agencies in Edo State to pay the over N2.5billion owed to the state government from Pay As You Earn, PAYE, to avoid a repeat of the crisis that led to the closure of Benin Airport last week.

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Mixed reactions have continued to trail the revelation by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, of the increasing value of dud cheques issued in Nigeria, which is now over N166 billion. A bounced or dud cheque is an instruction in writing, authorising a bank to make payment against an unfunded or inadequately funded account.

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