Chevron was presented with a $5 billion lawsuit in California federal court according to Law 360 reports.

DELTA State Government has inaugurated a special task force charged with the responsibility of making landlords in the state to pay ground rent for their landed property, whether residential, religious, commercial or agricultural to sustain the economic growth of the state, with immediate effect.

Additional funding from international donors has been identified as a key requirement for fighting the effects of climate change in Africa.

Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has urged the Lead Group at the 12th plenary session of the Lead Group held in Abuja recently to finance Africa Risk Capacity with $30 billion.

A 65-year-old former Shell Petroleum Company worker, Tunde Jinadu, and two Microfinance Bank directors, were yesterday arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court, sitting at Igbosere over alleged theft of N41.6 million. The other defendants are Jackson Idika, 38 and Agboola Olayinka, 35, they are facing a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy, fraud and stealing, preferred against them by the police.

NIGERIA Union of Journalists, NUJ, yesterday, condemned Sunday’s attack on journalists by hoodlums in Bori, headquarters of Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State.
State NUJ council, in a statement, condemned the Police for standing by while media men were being attacked on the said day.

Toyota (Nigeria) Limited took another important step towards its boosting corporate social responsibility portfolio when it recently donated unit of Ambulance to the Federal Road Safety Commission. The presentation which was held at the Headquarters of the Federal Road Safety Commission Abuja was done on behalf of Toyota (Nigeria) Limited by Mr Kunle Ade- Ojo the Executive Director of the company.

The Labour Party, LP, in Ogun State, yesterday, pledged to work for the victory of President Goodluck Jonathan in his re- election bid, urging him to declare his interest to contest the 2015 presidential election.

The Police Special Fraud Unit, SFU, in Lagos, yesterday, paraded six persons, including a couple, over alleged visa fraud at the Italian Embassy.

Mrs Ngozi Isintume-Agu, spokesperson of the unit, who paraded the suspects, said they were arrested after receiving a petition from the Italian Consulate-General, alleging visa fraud by the couple.

The Police, yesterday, arraigned 11 persons suspected to be behind the protest, last Monday, condemning the alleged shooting of Senator Magnus Abe with rubber bullets by the Police, before a Magistrate’s Court in Rivers State.

EDO State Police command, weekend, confirmed the arrest of nine persons over last week’s fracas during a festival at Igarra, the administrative headquarters of Akoko-Edo Local Government Area in which two youths of the community were said to have been shot.