ABUJA—AHEAD of the planned impeachment of Governor Umaru Al Makura of Nasarawa State and the eventual takeover by his deputy, Mr. Luka Barau, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has reportedly barred Barau from seeking governorship election in the 2015 poll.

Victims of flood disaster and insurgency in Bauchi State presently have cause to smile and temporarily forget their pains and distress.

The Joint Task Force (JTF) and Police in Niger Delta said on Thursday it repelled attack by suspected pirates on a flow station at Ogboinbiri in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa.

KADUNA— The remains of the late former Petroleum Minister and President of Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, Dr. Rilwanu Lukman, 75, were yesterday laid to rest in, his home town, Zaria, amid tears and praises from well wishers.

The Federal Government, yesterday, secured the release of 248 containers of power equipment trapped in the ports for about 11 years.

THE Presidency, yesterday, gave an insight into why the Federal Government was slow at rescuing the over 200 Government Secondary School girls kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents in Chibok, Borno State, on April 14.

My father played various leadership roles in the institutions that he featured in. He played leadership roles in Okere-Urhobo, in Warri, the Urhobo nation, the Western Region, Midwest/Bendel State and the Nigerian nation.

The Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, has been asked to stop misinforming Nigerians over its plan to, from August 1, start impounding vehicles with the old number plates in clear disregard of an order of a Federal High Court, Lagos, which held that the commission has no such powers to phase out the old number plates.

LAGOS — Operatives of the Police Special Fraud Unit have arrested 17 persons over visa fraud.

Growth in the tourism sector, with its substantial job creation spin-offs, could act as a partial antidote to the sluggishness of the economy, South Africa Tourism Minister, Derek Hanekom says.