In an apparent bid to re-jig the nation’s security apparatus in the wave of growing insurgent attacks and suicide bombings, President Muhammadu Buhari, 45 days after assuming office, yesterday sacked all the service chiefs and appointed replacements whom he said were chosen on merit.

THE Petroleum Dealers and Owners Association in Ondo and Ekiti States and the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and other regulatory authorities are on collision course over selling of petrol above the government-approved pump price.

URHOBO youths, under the auspices of Urhobo Youths Alliance for Equity and Justice, UYAFEJ, have urged Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, to withdraw the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC Amendment Bill until all ‘gazetted’ ethnic nationalities in the state have taken their turn to occupy the commission’s chairmanship position.

Abia State governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has said his administration will sponsor over 20,000 youths in agriculture to make them self -reliant

A Group under the aegis of Anambra Patriots in Lagos has urged the new administration of President Buhari to give Dr. Chris Ngige suitable positions due for the South East zone.

CRISIS is looming in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Owan West Local Government Area of Edo State as the chairman of the party in the council, Mr. Monday Ogbeta, has been suspended from office by the council and Ward leaders over alleged anti-party activities.

Less than two years after five boys in the national U-16 team were suspended over age issues in Benin Republic in 2013, Nigeria has again fallen foul of the rules following the suspension of three Nigerian girls in the on-going 2015 FIBA Africa U-16 Women Championship in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

The Rivers state government has assured that the nations U-23 team would not be lacking in support when they take on their Congolese counterpart this weekend in Port Harcourt.

President Muhammadu Buhari, Monday in Abuja said that his government may not remove the petroleum subsidy, stating that the reasons so far canvassed for its removal did not sound plausible.

For 21st century digital Nigeria, the President of the Nigerian Computer Society, NCS, Prof David Adewumi has said that in addition to Cybercrime Act, legislation should be enacted to foster the development of Information Technology and IT enabled activities in the country.

As part of effort to inculcate safety consciousness among young people in the school, the Executive Director of Forwarder Group, Mr. Oluwole Eweoya has donated sets of safety equipment to students of Ewutuntun Community High School, Mafoluku Oshodi

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has welcomed the call by the state Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Dan Orbih, to the EFCC to institute a probe into Edo State Local Government account, saying however that the probe should start from 1999.

Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday rescued an accident victim,Miss Anukam Angela, at Osborne Road, Ikoyi area of Lagos.

The National Coordinator of the APCUK has spoken in support of today’s sacking of Alex Bade; Chief of Army Staff, Kenneth Minimah; Chief of Naval Staff, Usman Jibrin; Chief of Air Staff, Adesola Amosun by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, Monday called for the scrapping of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, saying that the corporation has over the years constituted itself as a parallel government.