STUDENTS at the Federal University of Petroleum, Effurun, FUPRE, Delta state will in September, compete for laurels for the the African continent in the United States of America (Huston, Texas) for the Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE 2015).

A security man, simply identified as Thompson, has died after drinking a bottle of a popular alcoholic drink and smoking five sticks of cigarette in two minutes, which were the terms of a bet he entered into with others he met at a joint.

ONE of the assignments the out going session of the National Assembly set for itself very early in the day was to ensure certain sections of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria were amended.

The Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream), Senator Kabir Marafa, has called for the removal of oil subsidy to end the lingering scarcity of the product in the country.

EARLY this week, the All Progressives Congress, APC’s Policy, Research and Strategy Directorate, announced a 2-Day Policy Dialogue on the Implementation of the Agenda for Change, on the eve of the inauguration of the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency, by May 29th, 2015.

Outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the N4.5 trillion ($22.6 billion) budget for 2015, which was passed by the National Assembly in late April, the president’s spokesman, Dr Reuben Abati, said yesterday.

Ikechukwu Okere, personal driver to Chief Godwin Ubaka Okeke, Chairman of GUO Motors Limited, yesterday, at an Onitsha High Court II presided over by Justice Alexander Okuma, gave a graphic account of how some of the suspected kidnappers abducted Okeke, on Sunday, August 23, 2009, in the premises of All Saints Anglican Church Cathedral, Onitsha, Anambra State.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has welcomed “the promise byMinister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to publish details on the disbursement of Excess Crude Account (ECA) fund for the last four years.”

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has cleared the former Kwara State Governor, Senator Bukola Saraki of any wrongdoing in a bank loan being investigated by the Police Special Fraud Unit since 2012.

Plans to amend the rules of the House of Representatives to allow open voting for the Speaker of the House were, yesterday, dropped following continued intrigues in the camps of the two leading aspirants for post.