The Nigerian Customs Service will next year organize a high powered summit in the South-East, preferably in Imo State to interact with the South-East Governors, traders and businessmen of Igbo extraction following the agreement reached by the governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha and the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hammed Ibrahim Ali (rtd) that such a parley has become necessary following the fact that more than eighty percent (80%) of importers or businessmen who deal with customs are from the South-East.

WORKERS at Wellington Hotel, Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday, protested against men of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, for defying a court order to vacate the hotel they had shut down and occupied since August 27.

Delta State House of Assembly has warned the new governing board of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, against embarking on programmes that have no positive effect on oil bearing communities in the state.

ABEOKUTA—The Divisional Police Officer, Kemta Division of the Ogun State State Police command, who allegedly assaulted a woman that subsequently lost her two-month pregnancy, has been removed and summoned by the state’s Commissioner of Police, Abdulmajid Ali.

LAGOS—An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, yesterday, remanded in prison custody two men, Elijah Adeyemi and Adebola Obafunwa, who were docked over illegal possession of arms and conspiracy to commit armed robbery.