THE operations manager and dispatch rider of a bank (identity withheld) in Effurun, Delta State, are cooling off in police custody after a foiled bank robbery attempt.

Policemen attached to Sagamu Division of Ogun State police command on Saturday at 6:pm arrested a 37-year-old man, identified as Dabeshi Umoru, for defiling a minor around Dadajira Street, Sabo, Sagamu.

Lagos State government has said it is targeting to scale up its food self-sufficiency from the present 10 percent to about 25 percent by 2018.

Secretary to the Benue State Government, SSG, Targema Takema, weekend, disclosed that the present administration in the state instituted a probe of the immediate past government of former Governor Gabriel Suswam in order to instill the tenets of probity, transparency and accountability in governance.

Kogi born business magnate and chairman, Destiny Group of Companies, Ademola Bello, has called on government at all levels to promote business growth through business development incentives in order to rebound the economy from its comatose state.

Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State has described as enemies of progress, critics who accused him of under-utilising the state’s resources.
Speaking through his Senior Special Adviser on Youth Mobilization, Tony Ezekwelu, Obiano said those comparing olden days economy with today’s lacked understanding of economic situation in present day Nigeria and the global economic meltdown.

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, yesterday said it has grounded two foreign registered aircraft with immediate effect for falsified flight clearance information and conducting illegal domestic flight operations in Nigeria.

The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, NSIA, managers of the Sovereign Wealth Fund, SWF, yesterday, insisted that all the assets it manages were intact, adding that it was never invited and had never made any presentations to the Adams Oshiomhole-led committee probing the Excess Crude Account.

The people of Ezemese community of Ibusa in Oshimili-North Local Government Area have excommunicated seven members of the community found guilty of unrepentant and continued abuse of tradition and custom of Ibusa.

THE Police in Delta State, weekend, rescued a 75-year-old woman, who was reportedly kidnapped by unknown gunmen from her farm at Ezionu village, Ukwuani Local Govermment Area of Delta State.

A Lagos cleric, Pastor Solomon Oziegbe, has lauded the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari, stressing that it was divinely orchestrated to restore the nation to her position in the comity of nations.

EBONYI State police command, weekend, paraded three persons suspected to have kidnapped Afikpo Zonal Manager of the Nigerian Breweries Limited, Kehinde Baruwa.

As the threat by JP Morgan to remove Nigeria from its GBI-EM Index draws closer, Meristem Securities Limited has predicted that government’s borrowing costs and investors’ participation on bonds will reduce.

The Assistant Inspector General, Zone 8, Mr Lawal Tanko has called on Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose, to participate in mobilising the people to take security issue serious by participating in the security of their community.

ABIA State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, is currently prosecuting 14 suspected pipeline vandals arrested by the command.