When in October last year, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture promised to significantly boost commercial agriculture among Itsekiri communities in Delta State, skeptics had taken it as empty political statement. Last week Tuesday, however, that promise was partly fulfilled in no small measures as the Ministry boosted commercial fishing among Itsekiri communities with provision of fishing boats, nets and other gears to fishermen in the area.

Pandemonium broke out, yesterday, when students of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye stormed the premises of the company which they believed owned the truck that killed their colleagues, pouncing on the workers and destroying property.

Yenagoa—Rresidents of Bayelsa State were yesterday forced to stay away from their normal haunts as they battled to bail out water from their homes, following last Sunday’s heavy rainfall in Yenagoa and its environs.

OLEH—House of Assembly candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Isoko South constituency II, Delta State, Chief Ferguson Onwo, has said that his party’s supporters did not mastermind the brawl which stalled the inspection of ballot materials used for the April 11, 2015 state Assembly election in the constituency.

Despite its rising non-performing loans portfolio, Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc extended about N158.874 billion loans to energy firms in Nigeria in two years, in 2013 and 2014. This notwithstanding rising concerns by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN and other financial analysts, over rising Non-Performing Loans, NPL, in the banks due to their high level of exposure to energy firms.

Bauchi—A motorcyclist was yesterday crushed to death at Tambari Housing Estate junction, along Bauchi-Jos road in Bauchi State.

ABEOKUTA—Ogun State police command yesterday arraigned 31 commercial motorcyclists, otherwise known as Okada riders, for allegedly unleashing terror on some members of Amalgamated Commercial Motorcycle Owners and Riders Association of Nigeria in the state, which left three seriously injured.

BENIN—There are strong indications that the list of Principal Officers of the National Assembly that was said to have been compiled by the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was after all the product of the governors of the party from each of the six geo-political zones of the country, where the seats were allocated.

Lagos—Residents of Labora Owode in Ibeju- Lekki yesterday staged a protest at the Lagos State House of Assembly, asking the lawmakers to save them from hoodlums who had taken over their land.

ISLAMIC scholars in their various dissertations agree that “Islamic Fundamentalism” connotes the universal absolutisation of Islamic doctrines as propounded and entrenched in the Koran as a format for governance. A form of Muslim theocracy based on Mohammedanism, Sharia and traces of Uthman Dan Fodio’s Jihad.