Thousands of ex-militants in Phase One, Second Phase and Third Phase of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, yesterday, marched through major roads in Warri, Delta State, to request President Muhammadu Buhari to, as a matter of urgency, fill the vacant position of Special Adviser on amnesty programme in the Presidency.

Every so often, God throws up certain persons to help salvage the situation of their people. Shakespeare puts it succinctly when he wrote that some people are born great, some achieve greatness whilst others have greatness thrust upon them.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to dissolve the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has been applauded as a major step towards sanitising the Nigerian oil and gas industry and the NNPC in particular. Many see the Corporation as lacking in transparency, amid allegations of corruption which the Board and management made no effort to check.

Citing high vehicular movement on major roads in the metropolis, the Lagos State Government said it has commenced the maintenance and rehabilitation work on 90 roads across the state.

The Federal Government has been urged to exercise caution in thecall for the removal of petroleum subsidy, and instead focus onaddressing all the economic bottlenecks sabotagingNigeria’s common wealth. An economist,Mr. Henry Boyo, argued that the direct removal of subsidy will serve as a great disincentive to the economic wellbeing of all Nigerians.

The management of Eko Electricity Distribution Company, EKEDC,has urged consumers within its franchise network to prepare for adjustment in electricity tariffs. The Chief Executive Officer, EKEDC, Mr Oladele Amoda, stated this at a stakeholders’ meeting with electricity consumers from the 11 Business Units under its jurisdiction in Lagos.

NIGERIA is losing about $2.7 billion (about N532 billion) annually in revenue to smuggling of poultry products, the Poultry Association of Nigeria has said. President of the association, Dr. Ayoola Oduntan, stated this while speaking during the 2015 Nigeria poultry summit, adding that smuggling of frozen chicken into Nigeria was a major challenge facing the sector.

A minor headache for example with no other conditions may not in many instances constitute a situation where a person can use the flexibility of the injusction of illness to skip Ramadan fast. Scholars agree that sickness that doesn’t cause any hardship cannot be used as an excuse for not fasting. Some of the conditions for breaking fast during Ramadan are as follows:

Lagos—Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High sitting in Lagos, yesterday, withdrew from the fundamental rights suit by Chairman of Bi-Courtney Limited, Dr. Wale Babalakin, SAN, against the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

No fewer than 23 persons were lost while 10 persons suffered various degrees of injuries to various disasters which occurred in the South-west zone in the past three months.