Committee of E-Banking Industry Heads (CeBIH) has called for public support and understanding for the cashless policy scheduled to go nationwide from July 1st.

FORMER Lagos State Governor and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday threatened fire and brimstone over any plan to rig the forthcoming governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states fixed for this year’s June and August, warning that “It will be rig and roast.”

Emotion ran high, yesterday, at the Oduduwa office of the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Ikeja, after an indigent woman revealed how she was raped by members of a non existing Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO, which promised to help treat her two-and-half year-old daughter of cancer.

Even as the furore generated over his allegation that the Federal Government was involved in acts of genocide against the north was yet to end, Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State, yesterday, launched a fresh attack on President Goodluck Jonathan, saying that he had a hand in the security challenges facing the north in the country.

Kano was jolted, yesterday, when an Upper Sharia court in the state sentenced to death by stoning a 63-year-old HIV positive for raping and infecting a minor with the deadly virus.

REFUGEES from some neighboring African countries recently, at a town hall meeting organised by the South West zone of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, NCFRMI, appealed to the Federal Government to assist them by integrating them into the society.

THE Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) may have decided to dump MTN, as providers of transmission services for clearing information in cargo delivery process.

The Federal Government claimed, yesterday, that the country’s generation capacity has picked up, hitting 4,105.90 megawatts as at Tuesday, this week.

REGIONAL sentiments and emotions took centre stage, yesterday, during contributions on resource control by members of the National Conference Committee on Devolution of Powers.

I used to eat like everybody else. I proudly called myself an omnivore, boasting about being able to eat any and everything. My body and stomach would cope with all. Similar to the Chinese saying: We eat anything out of the sea except ships, anything from the sky except planes and anything with for legs except chairs and tables.

CULTURE they say is the characteristics of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, social habits, music and arts. It is the totality of a people’s way of life. Tradition on the other hand serves as the vehicle through which elements of culture is passed down from generation to generation.

AS preparations for 2015 governorship elections hot up in Oyo State, a former governor of the state, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, yesterday said no amount of overtures would make him return to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Osun State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has directed its members to seek clearance from its secretariat before attending or convening meetings.

GOVERNOR Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, yesterday declared that the people of the state would resist any move from Abuja to impose a governor on the people in the forthcoming governorship election.

A district court in Azare, Bauchi State has stopped the ongoing local government and state congresses of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state.