Ford is investing an additional $4.5 billion in electrified vehicle solutions by 2020 as well as changing how the company develops vehicle experiences for customers – all to make people’s lives better by changing the way the world moves. Ford is adding 13 new electrified vehicles to its portfolio by 2020, when more than 40 per cent of the company’s global nameplates will come in electrified versions. This represents Ford’s largest-ever electrified vehicle investment in a five-year period.

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State and the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II yesterday, extended their condolences to the family of Hon Makinde Oladejo Samson who died at the age 48.

WARRI — FORMER Niger Delta militants, weekend, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to prevail on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to leave ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, alone and follow the rule of law in its dealings with him. The erstwhile agitators, who met under the auspices of the Transformed Niger Delta Ex-militants Forum, asserted that some persons, who were envious of Tompolo, wrote a petition against him to the EFCC, but advised that the commission in the discharge of its duties should respect the rule of law.

“The DSS said we should not call it a massacre, if the killing of scores of harmless people by soldiers is not a massacre, then what was it?” He asked.

THE Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri, Imo State, has upheld the decision of the Abia State National/State Assembly Election petition tribunal which nullified the election of Mr. Emeka Nnamani of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, for Aba North state constituency.

The Federal government will build 10,000 primary health facilities in the 774 local government areas across the country for effective service delivery to the people towards de-congesting the nation’s tertiary health institutions.

Nnewi community in and outside Nigeria alongside friends and well-wishers, yesterday, celebrated their traditional ruler and longest serving traditional ruler in Africa, Igwe Kenneth Orizu 111, who observed his 90th birthday and 52nd year on the throne which, according to records, made him the longest serving monarch in Nigeria and the whole of Africa.

Lagos—The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers yesterday, said that petrol would soon be available in filling stations across the country.

THE fire disaster at the Inter Corp Oil Limited, a gas plant owned by the Chikason Group in the industrial town of Nnewi, Anambra State on the eve of Christmas, which claimed dozens of lives and destroyed property worth millions of naira was predicted by a prophet months before the incident.

Thirty one elite runners from eight countries have signed to contest for the top prizes at the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon according to the General Manager Marathon, Yussuf Alli.