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PORT HARCOURT— Inspector General of Police, IG, Mr Solomon Arase, has ordered his men in the South South to mop up illegal arms in circulation in the region, saying that the Police will not allow cultists and armed robbers overwhelm Rivers State.

Dangote Group, yesterday, strengthened the bilateral trade between Nigeria and Zambia with the official opening of the Group’s $400 million cement plant, with installed capacity of 1.5 million metrics tonne per annum, and a 30 megawatts coal plant to power the factory.

Yenagoa—An oil spill has been reported along Jalingo settlement near Nembe Creek in Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

Ibadan—Oyo State Police Command said yesterday that it had discovered a kidnappers’ hideout at Oyagbe area in Oyo town.

ASABA—DELTA State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, sitting in Asaba, has, struck out a set of five motions brought by the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Olorungun O’Tega Emerhor and the party seeking for extension of time to enable them come up with more facts to support their petition.

THE House of Representatives, yesterday, told the Service Chiefs to do all within their power to stop the menace of Boko Haram, activities of pirates as well as oil theft in the Niger Delta region.

Nigeria Bottling Company, NBC, packagers of the Coca cola soft drink brand, said it paid N33.5 billion in taxes between 2008 and 2014 and plans to increase production capacity by 2020

Lagos—Magistrate K. O. Ogundare of a Lagos Chief Magistrate’s Court, sitting at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, yesterday, sentenced a salesman, Azeez Williams, to three years imprisonment without an option of fine.

ABUJA — Justice Gabriel Kolawole of Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, threatened to quash any police report on the alleged forgery of the Senate Standing Order.

Ibadan—A 24-year-old vigilante, John James, was arraigned before an Iyaganku Senior Magistrate‘s Court sitting at Ibadan, Oyo State, yesterday, for an alleged attempt to steal at a judge’s residence.

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, has said that it will be futile for any group or persons to attempt to use the safety of Justice Folahanmi Oloyede as a strategy to throw the state into chaos.

THE Delta State House of Assembly has suspended the chairman of Uvwie Local Government Area in Delta State, Henry Baro, from office.

Intel Corporation has flagged off the Intel Developer Zone (IDZ) program in Nigeria to local developers at its just concluded Intel Developer Day Nigeria (IDDN) 2015, in Lagos.

A new vista has been opened in the area of football academies in Nigeria with the formal launch of the Felix Akiga Football Academy in Makurdi, Benue State courtesy of former Nigerian basketball international, Chief Felix Akiga.