ABEOKUTA—AN alleged fake Assistant Superintendent of Police, 35-year-old pregnant Funmilayo Balogun, was paraded yesterday by Ogun State Police Command for fraud.

AFTER the very successful carnival organized by the Resident Youth Association, RYA, Oregbeni Housing Estate, Benin City, at which this writer was a Guest Speaker, it has become clear that the good life begins from the grassroots. The Oregbeni Community is situated at Ikpoba Hill on the Eastern flank of Benin City. A community that was once at the outskirts of Benin City in the Greater Oredo Municipality is today at the centre of Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area. The very interesting history of this community shall be left for another day.

The nation’s ports economic regulator, the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has recovered consignments seized by a terminal operator, just as it reclaimed others alleged to have been declared missing.

‘The price of global benchmark Brent crude against which Nigeria’s oil is priced, continued its decline on Wednesday and settled around $56 per barrel, $9 lower than the country’s budget benchmark price this year.” Femi Asu, PUNCH, January 1, 2015, p 36.

John Holt Plc has recorded significant erosion in its capital, as it posted a negative shareholders’ fund of N3.3 billion in its financial statement for the year ended, September 30, 2014.

THE political parties primaries has come and gone, leaving winners and losers behind. Unlike most other states in the country where there have been in- fighting after the primaries, Abia state Peoples Democratic Party, PDP is different. This could be as a result of the free, fair and transparent manner the primaries was conducted. The government presented a level playing ground for all the aspirants, kudos to Governor T. A. Orji, who exhibited a high level of maturity and wisdom before, during and after the primaries. The PDP aspirants deserved commendations too for the gentlemanly manner they accepted defeat, and quickly close ranks with Dr. Okezie Victor Ikpeazu, ho picked the party’s tick

The police in Borno State yesterday warned politicians against the use of foul languages which can cause unrest during the electioneering campaigns for the forthcoming general elections.

IT is amazing how Nigerians arrive at their decisions about how they would vote in the elections that are just weeks away. Neither the presidential nor the governorship candidates are saying why they want to be in office outside the trite line on change. The way things are going, it seems that the candidates are talking about change for themselves, not any of us, on whose behalf they claim they want to be in office.

NIGER State Governor, Dr. Babangida Aliyu has dismissed calls that election should not hold in the North East geopolitical zone currently being ravaged by Boko Haram insurgency, describing the affected areas as the strongholds of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

ABUJA — AHEAD of next month’s general elections, the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, boasted, yesterday, that it will reclaim all the states it lost to the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, through defection of governors

Analysts at Financial Derivative Company Limited have predicted that the naira will further depreciate to N200 per dollar at the parallel market.

A Delta State All Progressives Congress, APC, senatorial candidate for Delta South, Mr. Temisanren Omatseye, has dragged the party and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to court, over alleged plot to recognise Prince Yemi Emiko as winner of party’s primaries held on December 8, 2014.

A PTDF researcher and associate Professor of Petroleum Microbiology/Microbiotechnology from the Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo, Ebonyi State (FUNAI), Dr.Chuma Okoro, has developed the most cost effective method of managing souring and corrosion related problems in the global oil and gas industry.

Port Harcourt, capital city of Rivers state has remained the hub of literary activities in the country since it emerged UNESCO World Book capital for the year 2014. The last Sunday of every month literary minds gather at the Presidential hotel, Port Harcourt to discuss a literary piece, a development that has continued to stimulate reading culture among the young and old.

The Federal Government has disclosed that it has established 17 e-libraries across the country.