13,000 ad-hoc staff that participated in the November 21, 2015 Kogi state governorship election and the December 5th supplementary election yesterday staged a protest over the inability of the Independent National Electoral Commission to pay them.

ABEOKUTA—A Non- Governmental Organisation has appealed to Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State to provide a home for the homeless graduates of the juvenile correctional home in Abeokuta.

The General Overseer of The Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Revival Ministries, Pastor Lazarus Muoka has challenged Nigerians to embrace righteousness and shun every form of extortion and unrighteousness to make Nigeria great.

The annual rice distribution exercise by Mr. Kenneth Imansuagbon, famed as the Rice Man in Edo State, takes another dimension in a faceoff between the PDP and the APC over seeming efforts by political rivals to follow the trend.

Lagos—Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State yesterday, said the 2016 Budget will be driven by Internal Generated Revenue. He said this at the Banquet Hall, Lagos House when he signed N662.588 billion into 2016 Appropriation Law, promising that the budget would be faithfully implemented in line with the determination of his administration to make Lagos work for all, irrespective of age, gender, tribe or status.

The Police in Lagos have handed over cadets Peters Solomon and Abdullahi Fahad, who were intercepted by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, last Wednesday, while manhandling an artisan, Dahiru Lawal in Ketu area of the state, to authorities of the Nigerian Air Force.

Yola—An early morning inferno yesterday razed down the 80-year-ago Yola market destroying properties worth billions of Naira with the state commissioner of police announcing arrest of some looters .

LAGOS—Policemen attached to the Alakuko Divisional Police station have arrested a 22- year-old Ganiu Amusa, for allegedly raping a five-year-old boy, (name withheld) in Lagos State.

BENIN—An early morning fire outbreak at the ‘Pipeline Timber Market’ in Benin yesterday destroyed timber and machines worth millions of naira.

Mr. Emeka Nwankpa, a former journalist and development activist is the Chief Media Strategist of the Concerned Professionals’ Congress (CPC), an advocacy team with an inclination to Nigeria’s total development.

MOST ex-militant leaders in Bayelsa State, yesterday, failed to honour the invitation by the state command of the Nigeria Police to attend a meeting over the intelligence report on security threat against the conduct of the re-run election in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area and 101 units across six councils in the state.

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said, yesterday in Awka, Anambra State that the party would give equal opportunity to all the aspirants for the senatorial seat of Anambra Central during its scheduled primaries to select the party’s candidate for the rerun election.

ABUJA — The insolvency of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has been brought to the fore, with its inability to fund its obligation to International Oil Companies (IOCs), as it owes its Joint Venture (JV) partners $2.839 billion, about N567.76 billion, between January and November 2015.

Justice Daisy Okocha has finally been sworn in as substantive Chief Judge of Rivers State after serving in acting capacity twice in this administration.

Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, has issued a 30-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to commence the implementation of the United Nations Environmental Assessment Report on Ogoni, Rivers State.