The battle between the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, and A.I.C Hotels Limited, owned by business mogul, Chief Harry Akande, over a parcel of land at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, yesterday took another twist as the Commissioner of Police, Airport Command, Mr. Waheed Salau, arrested and detained the General Manager of the company, Chief Niyi Akande.

Following the death of foremost lawyers Chief G. O. K. Ajayi, SAN and Chief Theodore Ezeobi, SAN, Mrs. Funke Adekoya, SAN, has called for the setting up of a Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Hall of Fame to immortalise eminent lawyers widely acknowledged to have contributed to the development of the legal profession in Nigeria.

Weak policy formulation has serious implications on the quality of decision-making as well as implementation of programmes and projects in the economy, said stakeholders.

MALIGNANT neoplasia, popularly called cancer, is said to kill about 10,000 Nigerians yearly. Whether this is true or not is not the issue. The fact still remains that many die from various types of cancer annually but the good news is that succour is coming the way of sufferers through the work of some biophysicists at Rice University, USA-based Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP).

IBADAN—ONDO State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, yesterday openly campaigned for President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election in 2015.

RIVERS State Government (RSG) has Inaugurated its Exam Ethics Marshals in the State. The Inauguration took place during the induction ceremony of the Marshals at the Alfred Diete Spiff Civic Centre in Port Harcourt.

The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, has charged states and local governments to exploit alternative sources of revenue in order to help them depend less on money from oil.

THE National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents, NCMDLCA, has called on the relevant government agencies to sanction terminal operators for using the ports as storage for their empty containers.

Badagry, a coastal town and local government area in Lagos State, was a major slave post and market during the better forgotten slave trade era. Situated between Metropolitan Lagos and the border with Benin at Seme, it remains today one of Nigeria’s most treasured historic sites and tourist destinations.

WARRI— THE Delta State Government has constituted a task force to check the menace posed by strangers, particularly armed herdsmen in the state.