ONITSHA— AUTHORITIES of the Nigerian Red Cross Society, NRCS, Anambra State chapter, weekend, joined their counterparts all over the world and in 189 United Nation’s member countries to mark this year’s World Accident Day with a minute silence in sympathy of all accident victims in the state, particularly the Sunday, May 31, 2015 Onitsha Petrol Tanker Fire Disaster that roasted 69 persons.

FOR Afeez Salami, disability cannot be an impediment to the actualisation of his God-given talents. The 21- year-old, who is physically challenged, is convinced that fulfilling his aspirations in life is the only instrument for his dry bone to live again.

THE Tony Elumelu Foundation says it has earmarked $100 million (about N20 billion) facility for entrepreneurs in 54 African countries under its entrepreneurship programme (TEEP) for 2016.

Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, has re-elected its national chairman, Chief Peter Ameh, alongside other 11 national officers in a peaceful National Convention of the party held in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital.

ABUJA— The refusal of the All Progressives Congress, APC’s, erstwhile deputy governorship candidate in the last election in Kogi State, Mr. James Faleke, to be the running mate to the new candidate, Yahaya Bello, in this weekend’s governorship supplementary election has put his party and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in a quandary.

The Federal Government is to come up with new price benchmarks to drive its expenditure guidelines in the pursuit of cut in cost of governance.

Both chambers of the National Assembly, the Senate and the House of Representatives,yesterday, passed a total sum of N574,532,726,857 as supplementary budget for President Muhammadu Buhari.

Vehement in their resolve to get the detained Radio Biafra boss Nnamdi Kanu released and to actualze their agitation for the sovereign state of Biafra, no fewer than 40,000 members and sympathizers of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday, shut down commercial and business activities in the South East states as they took to the streets to vent their spleen.

THE Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, yesterday, called on banking institutions, security agencies and other relevant stakeholders in the financial system to redouble their efforts towards combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (ML/TF).

Ogun State Chief Judge, Justice Olatokunbo Olopade, has charged customary court judges to exhibit a high sense of responsibility without fear or favour in the discharge of their judicial duties.

Terrorists have killed no less than 10, 000 Nigerians, while two million others have been displaced since the beginning of the Boko Haram insurgency in 2009. The preceding statistics were provided by President Muhammadu Buhari in the course of his speech during the Queen’s Banquet at the Commonwealth Head of Governments Meeting in Malta last week.

Lagos—Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos yesterday restrained the Lagos State Attorney-General from prosecuting the two engineers who built the collapsed guest house of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN.

Lagos—A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has barred the Federal Government from seizing the properties of Senator Buruji Kashamu over alleged drug trafficking.

The Samson Siasia Stadium for the second time in four days, came alive as it, yesterday, hosted the mega-rally of the All Progressives Congress, APC, ahead of Saturday’s governorship election in Bayelsa State.

THE Federal Government has reiterated that solid mineral development remains its priority sector under its economic diversification programme and new direction of revenue generation.