LAGOS—A 45-year-old driver, Ganiyu Afolabi, was yesterday charged before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court in Lagos for allegedly defiling and impregnating a 16-year-old girl.

ABEOKUTA—The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate in April 11 governorship election in Ogun State, Prince Gboyega Isiaka yesterday, closed their case at the ongoing governorship tribunal in the state after tendering over 4, 000 evidences before the court and having called nine witnesses.

COMRADE Brown Ogbeifun, until his retirement last month, was Industrial Relations Manager, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. He was also the President of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, and the First Deputy President General of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC.

THE Presidency’s denial that a campaign docu-ment, entitled My Covenant With Nigerians, originated from All Progressives Con-gress, APC, was greeted with angry reactions yesterday.

Nigeria’s failure to win a medal at the just concluded IAAF World Championships in Beijing, China remains the talk of the moment for athletics enthusiasts. Yesterday renowned athletics coach, Toni Urhobo declared that Athletics Federation of Nigeria’s claim of injury to Blessing Okagbare was diversionary.

THE Bayelsa State Commissioner for Health, Dr Ayibatonye Owei, yesterday, said that the performance of Governor Seriake Dickson in all sectors of the state’s economy will guarantee his return as governor on December 5.

Ibi Siddon, is the Managing Director, Union Admiralty Nigeria Limited, a frontline logistic and shipping company. In this interview with SweetCrude’s Godfrey Bivbere, he explained why Nigerian ship owners are unable to engage in mid-stream discharge of petroleum products; the difficulties in insuring indigenous vessels as well as the absence of dry docking facilities in the country and much more. Excerpts:

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari may have started moving into dangerous territories. He may indeed have begun the process of his own unravelling and ultimately of the destruction of his presidency by his own action.

National Metallurgical Development Centre, NDMC, Jos, in this interview Gabriel Ewepu, he expresses optimism that the centre has a strategic role to transform Nigeria into an industrial hub in Africa. Excerpts:

Imo State Chief Judge, Hon. Justice Paschal O. Nnadi, says the state judiciary remains committed to partnering with the legislature and other stakeholders in actualizing all viable plans to de congest the prisons in the state.