Lagos State Police Command is investigating three suspected members of an illegal oil bunkering syndicate which specializes in vandalizing petroleum pipelines, siphoning products, transporting and selling of the products in Cotonou.

Attempt by a fleeing driver to divert a trailer loaded with 600 bags of rice, valued at N6 million, has been averted by policemen attached to Area ‘E’ Command, Festac, with the arrest of four suspects.

Former Super Eagles captain, Joseph Yobo has tipped new national team chief coach, Sunday Oliseh to succeed in his current assignment. This is even as he has rallied support for the team ahead of the Tanzania game.

With the successful conclusion of the APC governorship primary in Kogi State, attention has shifted to the battle of wits in what analysts are already tipping as the 2011 rematch between Gov. Idris Wada and a former AFRIBANK chief, Alhaji Isah Jibrin Echocho. Both gladiators are from Dekina Local Government Area which is reputed as the hotbed of Kogi East politics. The emergence of the youthful Banjo Amoto Moses is raising a few eyebrows since he is the only aspirant from Kogi Central and by extension, from the old Kwara.

There are successful stories of Nigerians who pursued their entrepreneurship dream,and their businesses are doing well despite the economic downturn.

ON Sunday night this week, in Tunis, Tunisia, Nigeria’s national basketball team, D’Tigers, defeated the Angolan national team, to become African champions for the first time.

The earth has supported life forms for millions of years because it has features that set it apart from others. “The most impressive attribute of the Earth is the existence and amount of liquid water on its surface. No one knows why it has the exact amount of water it does, which is relatively small considering that water molecules outnumber silicate molecules in the galaxy,” said Geoffrey Marcy, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley.

Yenagoa—The Bayelsa State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has arrested 10 persons suspected to have vandalised crude oil pipeline owned by Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC, along the creeks of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state.

The Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) has said that the construction of the long awaited 2nd Niger Bridge is still on course. This is contained in a statement signed and made available to newsmen by Acting Head Corporate Communication ICRC Ms Debora Okafor in Abuja.

THE Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour and production, Dr. Clement lloh has assured stakeholders in the education sector that the Federal Government (FG) is committed to end strikes in the education sector. Speaking during the 4th National Delegates’ Conference of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria polytechnics (SSAN) held at Yaba College of Technology, Yaba, Lagos, he noted that “the Nigerian education Sector is one sector that has been bedeviled with unnecessary strike and labour unrest in recent time.

Nerves are beginning to be frayed following the perceived delay in dualization of the Abakpa Juction-Nike Lake, Penocks-Timber-T Junction roads earmarked for dualization by the Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi administration over two months the Enugu State House of Assembly approved funds for the project.

The immediate past Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Bayelsa State, Col Sam Inokoba (retd.) yesterday reportedly slumped and died in Lagos.

Tank farm owners are presently looking for buyers for their facilities as the Federal Government moves to curb importation of petroleum products.

Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, yesterday in Lagos introduced an electronic “Revenue Invoicing Management System and Customer Portal”in a bid to lower operational cost and shorten the time for documentation for port users.

Former Super Eagles captain and first choice goalkeeper, Peter Rufai has dismissed the perceived danger posed by Vincent Enyeama’s sudden withdrawal from the squad that will take on Tanzania this weekend, saying that it should rather motivate the second choice goalkeeper to greater performance.