FOLLOWING death of a father and his adopted son who were electrocuted in Abeokuta, Monday, he Ogun State Government, yesterday, warned residents to desist from scavenging on construction sites in areas where road expansion projects are ongoing across the state.

LAGOS State Internal Revenue Service, LIRS, has said it planned to rake in N22 billion per month as internally generated revenue, IGR, even as it said it would start prosecuting tax defaulters any moment now. Chairman of LIRS, Mr. Babatunde Fowler, spoke during the presentation of awards to artisans in the informal sector and Abibatu Mogaji.

The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has urged judges of the Federal High Court to be ‘hard on bank fraudsters’, so as to restore depositors’ confidence. Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim, the Managing Director of the Corporation, made the call at a sensitisation seminar on “The Challenges to Deposit Insurance Law and Practice”, for judges.

Opposition against the proposed establishment of Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment, CISI, to replace the current Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers, CIS, has continued to increase as more trade groups in the capital market are calling for quashing of the Bill.

ABUJA—Despite a ban on heavy duty vehicle within the Federal Capital Territory between 4pm and 10pm, no fewer than three people were confirmed dead in a road crash along Nyanya-Maraba road, Abuja, involving a tipper and 16 vehicles.

Gunmen suspected to be terrorists have launched an attack on Gamboru Ngala Police Station in BornoState, but the heavily armed policemen on duty repelled the attack by killing four of the suspects while five policemen were reportedly injured.

Police detectives investigating the gruesome murder of Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Chinwike Asadu, may soon come out with startling revelations that will shock the nation over the circumstances that surrounded his death. Unconfirmed police sources in Abuja and Enugu told Crime Alert that, “We are making progress seriously.

MTN Group at the weekend released the results for its year ended 31 December 2012 business activities, saying that Nigeria operations will account for more than forty per cent of group capital expenditure (CAPEX) in 2013.

OFFICIALS of the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, have commenced a one-week assessment of the extent of demolition exercise carried out by the Lagos State government in Ijora-Badiya, with a promise to redress any form of human rights violation.

Comp-troller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Dikko Abdullahi, yesterday, told the Senate that the service made N850 billion in 2012 as against N779 billion collected in 2011.