The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, raised the alert over the circulation of fake letters of authorisation purportedly issued by it to buy and or sell Nigerian crude oil.

In a bid to shore up electricity supply nationwide, the Federal Government has reiterated its resolve to complement power generation using Coal fired power plants.

A youth leader from Bayelsa, Jude Tabai, yesterday, in Abuja, described as mischievous those who have refused to acknowledge the monumental strides that the President has recorded for Nigeria in the last four years.

The Surveyor-General of the Federation, Prof. Peter Nwilo has Bakassi Peninsula, does not belong to Nigeria but to Cameroon.

A former President of the Umuahia Development Association (UDA) in the U.S., Sir Chudi Onyeama, has called on Abia State citizens in the Diaspora to return home and participate in the next political dispensation in the state.

National Security Adviser, NSA, Col.  Sambo Dasuki (rtd) has denied any wrongdoing in the $5.7million arms money seized by South Africa.

BY now, it must be abundantly clear to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that its proposed allocation of extra polling units to the various states of the federation is unpopular and has been rejected by the generality of Nigerians.

Ahead of tomorrow’s school resumption in Lagos, the State government yesterday said it would conclude the handing over of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, preventive kits to schools today.

ONITSHA—Anambra State Police Command has uncovered a baby factory where women with unwanted pregnancies are harboured till delivery, after which the babies are sold to interested buyers, with or without their mothers’ consents.

ABUJA—AHEAD of the December 6 National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP where the sole candidature of President Goodluck Jonathan would be ratified, national leadership of the party is insisting that all delegates to the convention slated to hold at Eagle square, Abuja, will vote.

Sokoto—The Federal Roads Safety Commission, FRSC, in Sokoto State, said that one person died, while 17 others sustained injuries in an accident that occurred along Sokoto and Sabon-Garin Kwannawa road, yesterday.

Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has granted state pardon to a septuagenarian, Dickson Umukoro, and two other condemned inmates as part of activities to mark the nation’s 54th independence anniversary.

Command has rescued a kidnap victim at Okpara in Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, shooting one of the suspected kidnappers in the process as others fled the scene with bullet wounds.

Governor Theodore Orji has been praised by associates as the man who liberated the state from what they describe as the bondage of the state to the family of his immediate predecessor, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu.

NIGERIA has called for a practical, pragmatic and action-oriented new urban agenda that will transcend the Habitat Agenda. The Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Mrs Akon Eyakenyi who made the call recently at the first preparatory conference for the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban development, Habitat 111, held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA, called for the emergence of “a new Urban Agenda that will exert similar lasting influence, building on agreed relevant international sustainable development goals, and with clear goals, principles and plan of action”. The new agenda will also ensure “that we leave future generations with a prosperous future”.