GOVERNOR Theodore Orji of Abia State, has presented a budget of N102. 4 billion for 2015, to the state House of Assembly, for approval.

Though successive administrations in the state had spent huge sums of money on the plantation with a view to making it a profitable enterprise, it is still lying comatose.

EIGHT host communities to Oil Mining Lease, OML 30, in Ughelli North, Isoko North and Isoko South Local Government Areas of Delta State, have vowed to shut down operations of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, should the company fail to implement the terms of agreement it reached with the communities in September 2014.

THE Paramount Ruler of Akipelai community in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State and former Commissioner for Information and Strategy in the state, Chief Asara Asara, has berated clergymen who have turned their pulpits into campaign arenas, describing the trend as “mischievous and dangerous for the country’s democracy.”

The business was birthed from a casual suggestion by friends trying to comfort her protracted mourning session after the death of her mother. As far as Akindele-Ojo’s friends were concerned, she had all it would take for a fashion retail business: a knack for business, an eye for good pieces and credentials to get a bank loan to purchase her business premises.

IN just over a month, Nigerians will be going to the polls to elect a new president. Even though the stakes are quite high it does not look like a presidential election is around the corner. The campaign period seems all too short. More so for President Goodluck Jonathan whose presidency seems to be running on oxygen for the few weeks left, with little room to manoeuvre to say nothing of convincing the alienated voter.

ABUJA — The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, rebuffed entreaties to postpone next month’s round of elections, saying it was financially and mentally set for the polls.

ABEOKUTA—Chairman, Mobilization Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the South-West, Prince Buruji Kashamu, has said that a former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel was his political associate.

THERE are great reasons for concerns about Maj-Gen Muhammadu Buhari, and any doubtful credentials in his forms for the 2015 presidential election. In an affidavit, Buhari told the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, that all his academic credentials were with the Military Board.

MANCHOK—The Atakad Community Development Association, ACDA, yesterday, said Fulani militia have captured 16 Atakad villages and killed no fewer than 180 persons, with 10,000 forced to become refugees since the violence started in 2013.