Lagos—Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly have said that the delay by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to form his cabinet was for the general good of the state.

Osogbo—The Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, for Kogi State, Mallam Hussaini Halilu Pai has assured the people of the state that Independence National Electoral Commission, INEC would conduct a peaceful and credible governorship election in the state in October.

OLEH—AT least two members of a vigilante team at Oleh in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State have been arrested by the police for their alleged involvement in cult activities.

ABEOKUTA—Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun has been enjoined to pay the workers’ salaries and other allowances as at when due.

A cursory survey of media reports on the downstream oil sector suggests that the prevailing popular belief is that a predatory cabal has a vice grip over the business of fuel importation. There is concern, therefore, that this, presumably, vicious class of businessmen would do everything to ensure that refineries will never work, and that the subsidy regime would subsist, while fuel supply will continue to be carefully manipulated to regularly induce artificial scarcity so that bountiful profits can be harvested from the attendant sufferings and economic dislocation deliberately caused by the oil cabal.