ABUJA—MEMBERS of the House of Represen-tatives, yesterday, mandated the committee on transport to probe the N18 billion contracts awarded for the rehabilitation of rail tracks, standard gauge, bridges, coaches, wagons and locomotives between 2010 and 2014.

THE ongoing screening of ministerial nominees by the Senate, has thrown up surprises and excitement.The first batch of nominees screened included Senator Udoma Udo Udoma; Dr. Kayode Fayemi; Chief Audu Ogbeh; Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu; Dr. Osagie Ehanire; Lt.Gen. Abduulrahman Dambazau; Alhaji Lai Mohammed; Amina Ibrahim Mohammed; Engr. Suleiman Hussaini Adamu and Ibrahim Usman Jibril.

Hundreds of passengers were yesterday stranded at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos following the strike embarked upon by the limousine operators and car hires over the re-routing of the former by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN.

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State yesterday played host to the British Minister of State for Foreign Commonwealth Affairs and DFID, Mr. Grant Shapps and the British Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Ray Kyles, where he expressed the readiness of the state to explore the opportunities for partnership in the area of power supply.

FOLLOWING the criticisms that trailed his first list of ministerial nominees, President Muhammadu Buhari, in his second list has shown, arguably, that he knows his onions.