THERE were strong indications, yesterday, that the Chairman of Lagos State Internal Revenue Service, LIRS, Mr.’Tunde Fowler, may have resigned his appointment.

Worried by the continued closure of Ogba Grammar School, Ogba, Ojodu Local Council Development Area, LCDA, parents and wards of the students, yesterday, stormed Governor Babatunde Fashiola ‘s office, demanding for the reopening of the school as well as lasting solution to increasing cases of poisonous fumes affecting school students in the state.

Well, I don’t think anybody will come here to discuss secession. That is not part of it. We are here to make Nigeria grow. But if it exists as a provision, the idea is that it makes the federal unit aware that it has to act properly to avoid such incident. But to be candid to you, nobody would be coming here to discuss how to break up Nigeria. We’ve come with one sole aim: how to grow Nigeria. How to make it stronger.

THE Fayemi Campaign Organisation, FCO, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state, of violence plot by the emergence of Mr. Ayodele Fayose as its gubernatorial candidate in the forthcoming governorship election.

FIVE months after the privatisation of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN’s assets, uncertainty and transparency issues have been identified as reasons why international financial institutions shunned the exercise.

Pensioners in Osun State yesterday in Osogbo paralysed commercial and other activities, protesting the non-payment of their outstanding monthly pension and other entitlements amounting to N25 billion.

THE lawmaker representing Lagos West Senatorial District, Senator Ganiyu Solomon, has said no government can provide employment to every job seeker.

The Chairman of GUO Motors Limited, Chief Godwin Okeke, yesterday, told newsmen at the High Court premises in Onitsha, Anambra State, that he had requested the prosecution to apply to the court to order the police to bring and display all the weapons used by his kidnappers during his abduction in Onitsha on Sunday, August 23, 2009 and which were later recovered by the police from a hideout.

Imo State governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, has called on the Inspector General of Police to investigate last weekend’s attack on Senate President, David Mark.

Aminu Maigari, Chairman of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA), has urged members of the Electoral and Appeals Committees for the association’s forthcoming 2014-2018 board elections to be fair.

IBADAN—Scores of rioters went on rampage, yesterday, outside an abandoned building in Soka area of Ibadan dubbed the “House of Horror” after decomposing human remains, skeletons and about 23 survivors were found there.

THE management of the Nigeria LNG Limited, NLNG, said it will soon remit over N220billion from the 2013 company income tax to the Federation Account.

ABUJA—FOllowing weekend clashes between Fulani herdsmen and villagers in Benue State, which left about 60 persons dead and continuous attacks and killings over cattle rustlings in several states, the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar yesterday summoned the Assistant Inspectors General of Police of the twelve zones in the country to an emergency security meeting in Abuja.

THE Delta State Micro-Credit Programme MCP, is one of the alluring programmes that have won commendations to Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan. The state’s leading edge in micro-credit financing is underpinned by back to back awards from the Central Bank of Nigeria between 2009 and 2011 in the area of micro-credit financing. The state’s MCP is managed by the state commissioner for poverty alleviation, Dr. Anthonia Ashiedu, former journalist, development finance consultant and political scientist

THE new governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano, has promised to give a 500 KVA generator to the Nnamdi Azikiwe Hospital, Nnewi, to boost healthcare delivery, even as he made a brisk stopover at the hospital to cheer up students of Community Secondary School, Umuokpu, Awka, who, last week, survived a fatal automobile accident.