NO fewer than four persons were, yesterday, sentenced to two weeks imprisonment by a mobile court sitting in Udu, Udu Local Government Area, Delta State for contravening the state environmental laws.

The facility is part of a $1 billion investment that General Electric intends to make in the Nigerian economy in the next five years. It also plans to build a training facility in Calabar.

…votes N4bn for Jonathan’s wife mission building, Sambo’s guest house to gulp N150m
ABUJA—The Federal Capital Territory has proposed to spend N5 billion this year to rehabilitate prostitutes and destitutes who loiter the streets of Abuja.

Most marriages pass through the storms of life and many end in divorce. It is in that light that the Nigerian establishment is rolling out the drums to celebrate 100 years of marriage between the North and Southern protectorates of the former British colonies that metamorphosed into Nigeria.

Comrade Rotimi Obadofin, a chieftain of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and former governorship aspirant of the party in Kogi State spoke with Vanguard on burning national issues including the merger talks between his party and some other prominent opposition parties in the country. Excerpts:

The World Bank has announced plans to spend $5billion on 27 projects across Nigeria in the next five years, just as the African Development Bank (AfDB) sealed a pact to provide two sovereign-guaranteed multi-tranche lines of credit (LoCs) of $500 million to Bank of Industry (BOI) and of $200 million to Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), to support export-oriented Small and Medium Enterprises’ (SMEs) modernisation and expansion.

KADUNA—No fewer than 10 persons, including eight policemen and two civilians were killed in three separate attacks by gunmen in Kaduna, Kano and Gombe States Thursday.

Senator Emma Nwaka is chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abia State. In this interview, he sheds light on the controversy surronding the purported return to the party of the former governor of the State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu among other issues concerning governance in the state. Excerpts:

Tournament favourites, Cote D’Ivoire have said that Nigeria cannot stand in their way of reaching the semifinal of the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa.

The new tax regulation for Nigeria that was recently approved by the Federal Government if well implemented will help reduce double taxation, Ernst & Young has said.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is interested in investing in Nigeria’s power sector, Mr Rogr Kelly, an official of the bank, said on Wednesday in Abuja.

Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are shopping for a replacement for the embattled National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, it has been learnt.

A special training in combat is to be given to selected officers and men of Bayelsa State Police Command to enable them tackle emergency situations in the state.

…As PDP kicks against use of technicality
Yesterday’s keenly expected judgment on the appeal by the ACN against the tribunal victory of the PDP on the contest for the strategic Ikoyi-Obalende local council throws up questions.

Enugu Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture ECCIMA], yesterday, raised an alarm over multiple taxation and arbitrary levy collection going on in Enugu State, saying the development has constituted major impediments to business activities in the state.