The Nigerian Navy said it had adopted a new training regime that would improve troop’s proficiency in internal security operations in the country.

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Former Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State, his two sons, Nnamdi and Tochuckwu, yesterday, filed a counter affidavit in opposition to an applicant’s motion for judicial review seeking to compel the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to investigate his actions as governor during his eight years tenure allegedly fraught with misappropriation of public funds and abuse of office.

LAGOS—In a renewed fight against fake and substandard drugs in the state, Lagos State Task Force on Counterfeit and Fake Drugs and Unwholesome Processed Foods has sealed 33 pharmacy and patent medicine outlets, even as it impounds fake drugs worth millions of Naira in Ojo area of the state.

Former Niger Delta Minister, Elder Godsday Orubebe, has denied allegations of corruption levelled against him by the Code of Conduct Tribunal, claiming that he is being framed for his unalloyed support for former President Goodluck Jonathan.

At a time Nigerian firms are complaining that the international oil companies, IOCs are not domiciling enough jobs in country for local service companies, some of those working for Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, have a different testimony.

LAGOS—The Lagos State government has said it will henceforth revoke approvals earlier issued to owners of abandoned buildings in the state to avert their conversion into criminals’ hideout.

THE Managing Director of Elizade Nigeria Limited, dealers in Toyota brand of vehicles, Mr. Ademola Ade-Ojo has attributed the sharp rise in prices of Toyota models to government policies and massive devaluation of the naira.

Femi Branch, a popular Nollywood actor, has attributed the reasons why soap operas produced locally are not creating waves like those produced abroad to lack of professionalism and stability.

Last Monday, a civil suit instituted by an indigenous oil service company, Arco Group, against the multinational oil giant, Nigeria Agip Oil Company, NAOC, came before Justice Lambo Akanbi of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.