A former member of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Mr. Ganiyu Salaudeen has hailed Prince Abubakar Audu as the expected change agent who will bring back the to the path of growth and development.

GOVERNOR Dickson weekend stormed Okpoama, home town of former Governor Timipre Sylva and candidate of the APC in continuation of his campaign saying he has no personal problem with their son.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has warned of a grave financial crisis in the Nigerian banking sector in the remaining part of 2015, while it also raised an alarm of a likely increase in Non-Performing Loans, NPL, in the financial sector due to the exposure of banks to the oil and gas sector.

THE Bank of Industry’s s intervention in the nation’s real sector, especially in the cables and wires industry, has increased local production of electric cables by 28,000 metric tonnes following the expansion of Coleman Wires and Cables factory from 2000 metric tonnes to 30,000 metric tonnes.

ABUJA — The Commonwealth of Nations has appointed Nigeria’s former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, as a Special Representative to peacefully resolve the political stalemate in the semi-independent island of Zanzibar, Tanzania.

A youth group within the All Progressives Congress, Kogi Youths for Probity, KYB, has dissociated itself from the candidate of the party, calling the candidature of Prince Audu “an aberration of the ideals of a progressive party”.

An Edo State High Court sitting in Benin has held that the Edo State Traffic Management Authority, EDSMA, has no right to carry out control and management of traffic on federal highways in the state, saying that it was the exclusive reserve of the Federal Road Safety Corps and the Nigeria Police.

The Nigerian Society of Mining Engineers, NSME, has called on the Federal Government to muster the political will to develop the solid minerals sector, its President, Mr Benjamin Onwude, urged at the NSME Conference held in Jos, Plateau State, recently.

Barely 24 hours after the arrest of Chindo Bello, one of the 100 Boko Haram terrorists declared wanted by the military authorities, at the Abuja Airport, another kingpin on the list, Ishaku Wardifen, a Cameroonian, has been arrested in Adamawa State

ABOUT 1000 youth members of the APC in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, weekend, defected to the PDP.

UFUT—THE Munene of Ufut in Calabar South Local Government Area of Cross River State, Muri Effiong Mbukpa, has alleged that some influential persons incited criminals to march into his palace and attack him. He also said that the influential persons, who were working against his getting staff of office from the state government, meddled with court proceedings when he took the hoodlums to court.

EKENKPON—COMMUTERS voyaged with canoes on the East-West Road, a neglected federal highway, in Niger –Delta, weekend, as raging flood waters submerged a bridge and a segment of the public road at Ekenkpon community in Cross River State. The latest incident is coming three years after an analogous natural disaster in which flood swamped a different section of the East-West road, 2012, in Delta state.

Aniagwu stated, “ So, if anybody is crying that the man is not a Father Christmas, well, they would have to cry more for God to give them more tears to shed because Okowa is not going to throw money on the streets and at the end of the day, some big men will take what belong to the poor. “The target and focus of this administration is prosperity for all Deltans, which means even if you are in the creeks, you deserve as much as the big man that is in the city.”

Lateefat Bashiru, a petty trader has been bedridden for several months as a result of a road accident in which she suffered severe limb fracture. It all began when she boarded a commercial bus on January 18, 2014, but got involved in the road mishap. Lucky to escape with her life, she has however, been unable to walk due to the injury she sustained.

COMMERCIAL activities were paralysed yesterday in Port Harcourt, as commercial bus drivers took to the streets protesting Sunday’s killing of their colleague by a yet-to-be identified soldier at Rumuokoro roadabout over alleged traffic offence.