THE House of Representatives yesterday told the Federal Government to replace the 23,000 ghost workers discovered recently with unemployed youths.

Professor of Geography, Mr. Francis Adesina, from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, has identified climate change as one of the greatest challenges facing agriculture in the developing countries, especially Nigeria.

Governorship candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, Dr. Alex Otti, in Abia State, has said he has nothing against Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu, but will continue to fight against the system that produced him in which he was allegedly imposed against all democratic norms and practices.

ABUJA— THE Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbe, said, yesterday, that the Federal Government would not probe the Growth Enhancement Scheme, GES, under former Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina.

LAGOS— A mild drama ensued, yesterday, at the Lagos High Court in Ikeja as an operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Usman Zakari, told a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Mr Obi Vincent, that he was frustrated.

CAN’T recall now when the apple became the official fruit of Nigeria, announcing its newly begotten status along every main road and at every street corner, stacked one on top of the other in green or red pyramids in trays or on the importation cartons, taking the pride of place in the produce section of every supermarket.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, has said that the on-going construction work on the 87-kilometre road in Orhionmwon Local Government Area will be completed and ready for commissioning in April, 2016, noting that the road will open up several communities in the council for rapid development.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday postponed indefinitely the Anambra Central senatorial re-run election scheduled for Saturday, March 5, 2016.

The Assistant Director, NAFDAC in charge of Veterinary Medicine Division, Dr. Sadiq Yunus, has charged Nigerians to look inward in solving the current dwindling economy by producing their requirements and shun foreign goods that have local substitutes.

THE disagreement within the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, came to a head yesterday as some members of the party teamed up with others in the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, and other parties to form a new party.

The call by Consumer Advocacy Foundation of Nigeria, CAFON, and Coalition of Nigerian Consumer Protection Associations, CNCPA, for boycott of banks across the country over excess charges failed to live up to its promise yesterday.

ABUJA — President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and his colleagues in both chambers of the the National Assembly were, yesterday, informed by a team of consultants under the auspices of the Department for International Development, DFID, that 54 of the country’s existing laws have to be either amended or repealed, if the country must make progress in its quest to attract investors and become business friendly.

Preparations for the March 19 re-run elections for the National Assembly and some House of Assembly seats in Rivers State have reached feverish pitch with Governor Nyesom Wike alleging that he had uncovered a list of Returning Officers drawn by some chieftains of All Progressives Congress, APC, for the elections.

FOR a long time Jide Atanda, a Lagos commercial vehicle driver, delighted in terrorising other road users through his unbridled reckless driving. A self-styled James Bond, Jide, who plies the Isolo/Mushin route, was particularly notorious for driving against the traffic and negotiating treacherous bends at hair-raising speed

THE embattled speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Momoh Jimoh Lawal, yesterday said he was ready to resign if the right thing was done and his purported impeachment by five members out of 20 member house reversed.