The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, declined to quash the six-count treason charge the federal government entered against the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu.

The Federal Government will take steps to address the ease of doing business in Nigeria as well as support small and medium enterprises, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Okechukwu Enelamah, stated this at the Economist Summit, adding that the challenge before the country was how to be competitive.

A founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and chieftain of the party in Edo State, Chief Samson Esemuede, yesterday, placed a curse on all those who allegedly attacked him and some leaders of the party, including former Senate Chief Whip, Senator Rowland Owie, at a stakeholders meeting of the party last week.

I GET all aswoon in our perennial gridlock, which of course, may have become a phobia for me. As I got cut up in it one good evening and couldn’t deal with its nettlesome taunt, I alighted from our car and loathly walked into a shop to get a cold drink, but the snag was, it took the shop owner, a man of about fifty close to a minute to realise that someone was actually in the shop. He was so engrossed with what he was ogling at that it took a sharp clap of my hands to drag him back to reality.

An Anambra State High Court presided over by Justice R.O Onunkwo yesterday ordered the Department of State Services, DSS, to appear before it on March 10 without fail to defend itself over alleged attack on Chief Ifeanyichukwu Nwokoye, the former Anambra State campaign coordinator of President Muhammadu Buhari.

BAYELSA State-born Resident Commissioner, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Cross River State, Mrs. Gesila Khan, until recently, Resident Commissioner in Rivers State, has traversed all the states of South-South region and other parts of the country in the course of her career, but she did not prepare for the bolt from the blue she encountered in her new station.

LAGOS — Africa’s richest man and President, Dangote Industries, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, yesterday, dismissed fears about the impact of the fall in crude oil prices on the Nigerian economy, saying the decline would not translate to doom for the economy.

THE people of Ebubu community, Eleme Local Government Area, Rivers State, have appealed to the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, in the state, to call off its resolution not to post corps members to the area.

ELDERS, chiefs and leaders of Ukpum Ete Clan, Ikot Abasi Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, have raised the alarm over alleged clandestine removal of Ikot Abasi Local government area from the list of littoral communities in the state.

THE Nigeria Basketball Federation has, through a statement issued from the Media office yesterday, declared the African Basketball League which kicked off in Lagos at the weekend illegal.