The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday said it signed an interim Offshore Processing Agreement, OPA, contracts with three of its Joint Venture, JV, companies.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Kogi State has denied the allegation that it was behind the recent protest at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja by some angry youth over the candidature of Prince Abubakar Audu as the APC candidate for the November 21 governorship election.

ABUJA—The Nigerian Army, yesterday, testified before the Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja,maintaining that the governorship election did not hold in some parts of the state on April 11, 2015. An Army officer, Captain Garba Sani, told the Justice Mohammed Ambrosa-led tribunal that violence by political thugs marred the electioneering process, saying that he did not see where election took place in Tai Local Government Area of the state, where he and his team were deployed to maintain peace and order on the governorship election day.

CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria, CBN, fixingtime limits for Resolution of Customers’ Complaints is morally and legally wrong, unlawful, unconstitutional and against the current prevalent mood of the nation in its fight against corruption. In the first place, CBN has no power to make subsidiary legislation on this subject of banks negligently, recklessness or fraudulently over charging its customers in various clever ways including but not limited to:

Yenagoa—Barely twenty-four hours after the two Okpoama chiefs kidnapped last week in the mangrove swamp of Bayelsa East senatorial district regained their freedom, gunmen struck again yesterday in the riverside town of Sagbama and abducted the Special Adviser on Political Matters to the Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Fyneman Wilson.

NATIONAL leadership of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP yesterday announced the postponement of Kogi State governorship primaries by four days, saying the process would be free, fair and transparent.

A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, witness, Andrew Uwanta, has told the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal for Akwa Ibom State that the April 11 governorship election in Etinan Local Government Area of the state was free and fair. Uwanta, a pastor based in Etinan, gave evidence in Abuja, during cross examination by the APC counsel, Mr Solomon Umoh, SAN.

UYO—The elders and people of Akwa Ibom State, yesterday, raised alarm over what they described as unwarranted invasion of the state’s Government House complex by agents of the Department of State Security, DSS, last Friday.

The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, yesterday, effected the redeployment of 61 senior officers of flag ranks, even as he appointed new Flag Officers Commanding Naval Autonomous Com-mands and branch chiefs.

CALABAR—SECURITY was unusually tight at the Cross River State Election Tribunal, yesterday, as Senator Gershom Bassey, the senator representing the Southern senatorial district of Cross River State, testified before the tribunal.