THE Otor-Iwhreko community, Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, has accused men of the Joint Military Task Force, JTF, 222 Battalion, Agbarha-Otor of complicity in the crisis involving it and the Ekuigbo community over the ownership of the Ughelli main market.

To avert crisis, the Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU, Lagos State University, LASU, chapter, has warned students and people against being used by some external forces to cause crisis and disrupt academic calendar of the institution.

President Goodluck Jonathan has promised special attention to Rivers State if re-elected for a second term, saying allegations by Governor Rotimi Amaechi that he neglected the state is reflective of the fact that he had not been sectional in his dealings.

ENUGU State Police Command, yesterday, said that it had commenced a full scale investigation into alleged explosion that rocked the Ohanaeze secretariat in Enugu, last Saturday, just as Biafran warlord and former Secretary General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Col Joseph Ahuzia (ret) said Ohanaeze had lost its steam.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has threatened to take the police to court over the indiscriminate arrest of its members in the state.

LAGOS — Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund IMF, Christine Lagarde, has advised managers of Nigeria economy to re-examine the nation’s fiscal and monetary policies soon after the February elections.

YOLA — Boko Haram terrorists are rampaging through seven villages in Adamawa State, killing, burning and looting with no troops protecting civilians, fleeing villagers said yesterday.

Lagos—A Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO, Activists for Good Government, has called on the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, to investigate the killing of Mr Peter Eyitayo and the shooting of Mr Lanre Ogunjimi at Agege, Lagos State.

HRH Anselm Eidenojie II, Onojie of Uromi, has given his blessings to Prince Henry Okpamen, who will fly the All Progressives Congress, APC, flag to contest for the Edo State House of Assembly polls in February.

Radisson Blu Anchorage Hotel has sacked 450 of its staff , attributing it to harsh operating environment in the country occasioned by recurring infrastructure and power challenges.

A vice President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and General Secretary of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, has said the National Delegates Conference, NLC, of NLC, holding between February 9 and 11, 2015, goes beyond election of officers.

United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has introduced mobile Point of Sale (mPOS) terminals. The Bank said that it has gone live with this initiative in partnership with POS partners across Africa.

The World Bank yesterday warned against future occurrence of health disaster saying the world is dangerously unprepared for future pandemics.

TODAY, we shall attempt to follow petrol on its journey from 6 kobo to N97 per litre – from General Yakubu Gowon to President Goodluck Jonathan. It has been a journey in which the Federal Government has always portrayed fuel price hikes as the panacea to every problem in the economy.

The amount the Federal Government is paying as subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, yesterday, dropped to N1.12 per litre, from N3.64 per litre when the pump price per litre of the product was reduced by the Federal Government to N87.