WARRI—SUSPECTED cultists have killed a member of Udu vigilante, shot another at Owhase just as a dusk-to-dawn curfew was slammed on Aladja over recent cultists’ activities.

AFRICAN Movie academy award winner and Nigerian born politician, Richard Mofe Damijo, has called on the incoming Buhari led federal government to set up a special tribunal to handle cases of piracy in the Nollywood industry.

As the world marked this year’s World Day for Safety and Health, stakeholders have called for the promotion of zero hazard in workplace. This is coming on the heels of the urgent call for the review of the country’s Factory Act which governs operational health and safety in Nigeria. In Lagos, stakeholders from the Bank and Health & Safety organisations maintained that health and safety issues are yet to take rightful place in the society.

While the outgoing government in Lagos State prides itself as having performed creditably in the area of construction and rehabilitation of roads, many Lagosians think otherwise and have been expressing their displeasure in this regard. Indeed, there have been so much hue and cry from Lagos residents over the parlous state of many roads belonging to federal, state and local governments in the state.

ABUJA— To ensure that it hits the ground running after the May 29 hand-over, President-elect, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has started putting together his cabinet.
He has directed governors elected on the platform of his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, to forward the names of their ministerial nominees and the governors have started responding, Vanguard gathered, yesterday.Three names are to be submitted by each state.A South-East governor, last week, told stakeholders in the zone to immediately comply.

Lagos—A 43-year-old businessman, Lamidi Moruf, was yesterday arraigned before a Tinubu Magistrate’s Court for allegedly obtaining N1.3 million by false pretence.

YENAGOA—Hundreds of returning male students of Federal University, Otuoke, in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State were, Sunday, stranded as they were shut out of their hostels by the landlord over alleged inability of the school and state government to pay N24 million, being two years rent.

Akure—THE embattled 73-year-old deputy governor of Ondo state Alhaji Ali Olanusi who was impeached last week has been appointed as a member of the Board of Trustees, BoT, of the All Progressive Congress, APC.

Participants at the just concluded 7th Lagos State Summit on Climate Change have advised the state government to continue to invest in climate change in order to promote environmental sustainability and assured future for human existence in Lagos.

MEMBERS of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, human rights community, friends and associates of the late Principal Private Secretary to Governor Adams Oshiomhole, Olaitan Oyerinde, yesterday, held a third year memorial meeting in honour of late Oyerinde, who was also a Deputy General Secretary of the NLC.