The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said yesterday that the Nigerian military had met the December deadline to defeat the Boko Haram terrorists.

Ahead of his 50th anniversary today, Comrade Joe Evah, National Coordinator of the Ijaw Monitoring Group, IMG, fielded questions from Vanguard on the lessons and lesions of life at 50. Evah, a former journalist, spokesman of the Ijaw National Congress, INC also spoke on other issues of national concern.

Osun State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola has hinted that the state would require at least N5 billion Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, monthly to augment allocation from the federation account in order to mitigate its current financial problem and boost rapid development.

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, yesterday, said that the full weight of the law would be brought to bear on all those fingered in the electoral violence that marred the conduct of the governorship election in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area and other parts of the state on December 5 and 6, 2015, regardless of party affiliations.

Nigerians have been urged to work towards ensuring that the country does not disintegrate, despite the current socio-economic and political challenges facing it.

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State and the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state were yesterday engaged in war of words over the financial position of the state.

After the May 29 take over of government by President Muhammadu Buhari, the country woke up to news of arrests of alleged corrupt former public office holders, some of whom were held over wide range of allegations. The need to tackle corruption cannot be over-emphasised in a country, where public and private institutions have performed abysmally, due to graft.

The immediate-past Senator who represented Ogun East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Gbenga Kaka and his successor, Senator Buruji Kashamu, yesterday, traded words over constituency projects in the area.

ABUJA — The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, has ordered the immediate cancellation of the tendering process for the engagement of Pre-Shipment Inspection and Monitoring Agents for Oil and Gas.

The Benin branch of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Alfred Eghobamien, have dragged Edo State Government before a Federal High Court sitting in Benin over its scrapping of the Customary Court of Appeal in the state.