NO fewer than 10 persons were killed and several others injured yesterday as a trailer reportedly lost control and rammed into a market at Owena, a boundary town between Osun and Ondo states.

NEW chief executive officer of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (Deloitte Global), Punit Renjen, has taken over the helms of the firm, defining the global organization’s priorities, which he said are led by driving a shared sense of purpose across a network operating in more than 150 countries with more than 220,000 people.

The Lagos State government Thursday warned against indiscriminate dumping of refuse into drains across the state saying it was responsible for the persistent flash flooding experienced in the state.

Media correspondents serving in Imo State are now living in palpable fear, following the reported kidnap of the head of News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, team, Miss Chidi Opara, in Owerri.

Barely five days after last Sunday’s ill-fated petrol tanker disaster that left about 70 persons dead at Asaba Motor Park, Upper Iweka, Onitsha, another auto crash, Thursday, claimed two lives at Ogidi, near Onitsha.

Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc said it has no plans to diversify its business as it intensifies effort to boost revenue from gas production. The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc , Mr. Austin O Avuru, disclosed this shortly after the company’s Annual General Meeting, AGM held in Lagos, stressing that the company has made efforts in gas development strategy by the expansion of its gas processing facility in Oben.

Ghana President John Dramani Mahama on Thursday announced three days of national mourning after a deadly petrol station fire killed at least 90 people during heavy flooding in the capital, Accra.

A suicide bomber detonated his Improvised Explosive Devices near a military check point at Shagari Low cost along Maiduguri- Monguno road, killing four people with several others seriously injured.

An explosion, Thursday evening hit a major market in Yola.

Although Vanguard is yet to ascertained the casualty figure but sources say, at least 10 people may have died from the attack.

The Federal Government has said that ministers have no power under the Public Service Rules to approve payment for contracts during their tenures in office.