Worried by the delay in the full implementation of the National Drug Distribution Guidelines, NDDG, launched February 2013, Community pharmacists have urged the Federal Government to commence action on the issue without delay.

The lingering fuel crisis in the country has started taking toll on the telecommunications sector as Airtel yesterday said its services have been impaired by the effects of the scarcity.

Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, Chairman, Professor Augustine Ahiazu, has presented certificates of return to the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidates who won the 22 local government chairmanship seats and 297 councillorship seats contested for in the just concluded council elections in the state.

MOST filling stations in Anambra State have run out of petroleum products, with the few that had Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, selling at N240 per litre.

IJAW, Itsekiri, Urhobo and Isoko oil/gas producing communities in Delta State have given a 72-hour ultimatum to the Delta State House of Assembly to pass the bill on restructuring of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, pending before the House.

A peaceful rally at Wase, yesterday, turned violent leaving about six people injured as Special Task Force, STF, officers stationed in the town descended on women and school children, who gathered to participate in the rally, with whips.

The Supreme Court, yesterday, urged President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Assembly to seek an amicable settlement of the controversy surrounding the proposed amendments to  the 1999 constitution.

Two brothers, Obiefuna Umeh, 28, and Ebuka Umeh, 27, were yesterday, arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stealing N5.2 million from their employer.

Weighed down by huge debts owed its members by the three tiers of government, the Federation of Construction Industry, FOCI, the umbrella body for about 125 major construction companies operating in Nigeria, has called on the incoming Federal government to declare a state of emergency in the construction industry.

In April 2015, CFAO and Yamaha Motor Corporation Japan jointly incorporated a company named CFAO Yamaha Motor Nigeria Limited, to assemble Yamaha motorcycles in Nigeria. The incorporation of the company was achieved less than four months after a joint venture agreement was signed by the two parents of the new company with the objective of contributing their quota to the development of the country’s transportation industry.