Justice Ebenezer Adebajo of a Lagos High Court in Igbosere yesterday refused an application by the prosecution, following request to allow fresh blood samples to be collected from the suspected killers of Engineer Funsho Williams, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, 2003 gubernatorial candidate in Lagos State.

Lagos—Four days after 13 students of Ogba Junior Grammar School, Ogba, Ojodu Local Council Development Area, LCDA, were hospitalised after inhaling poisonous fumes, the school is still shut.

MASTERCARD, has announced that it is now in 48 of Africa’s 55 markets. This was following the addition of seven new markets from the continent last week.

A 41-year old marketer, Kassim Olawale, has been arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court, over alleged theft of hair care products worth N1.150 million.

THE United States Consular General in Nigeria, Mr. Jeffrey Hawkins has told the Professor Attahiru Jega-led Independent National Electoral Commission to be thorough with Ekiti and Osun states governorship elections, saying the two polls are critical to the success of the 2015 general elections.

RIVERS State Police Command has gunned down three armed robbers in the state.

The Caretaker Chairman of Gwoza Local Government Council in Borno State, Dr Hamma Jumba, narrowly escaped being killed by suspected Boko Haram terrorists who ambushed his convoy, Monday.

TEN months after the Oyo/Osun state area command seized 56,750 arms and ammunition from smugglers at Saki area, the command, has again, intercepted another 30,000 live cartridges in the same area.

ITSEKIRI Progress Club in Delta State, yesterday, cautioned the Federal Government against sending wrong signals between the Ijaw and Itsekiri ethnic nationalities in the Niger Delta region with the exclusion of the Itsekiri as delegates to the national conference.

The Ohanaeze Ndi-Igbo, has said that Igbo in Lagos State will only vote for a political party that would protect their interest in the commerce and transport sector, during the 2015 general elections.

THE Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, yesterday blamed the lingering nationwide fuel scarcity on the failure of the Federal Government to pay marketers for petrol imported into the country in the third and fourth quarters of last year.

Two federal law makers from Nasarawa State, Senator Solomon Ewuga and Hon. Joseph Kigbu have been indicted by the Justice Joseph Gbadeyan- led Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the activities of Ombatse Militia group in Alakyo, area of Nasarawa State, which reportedly killed 534 people in the area last year.

All through the years, the general public has had the belief that insurance companies only exist to reap off the people. The refusal by insurance operators to be transparent in their operations led to increased negative public perception of them.

A group, Third Force Movement, has expressed worry over the delay in conducting a re-run election to fill the vacant seat of late Mr Tonye Harry who represented Degema constituency in Rivers State House of Assembly before he passed on in October last year.

ACTING-governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mrs. Sarah Alade, yesterday, urged stakeholders to sincerely embrace the cashless policy of the bank, so as to curb corruption in Nigeria and meet the vision 2020 requirement, which according to her, will modernise the country’s payment system.