Lagos—The traditional ruler of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu I, has charged the people on the need to be more security conscious in their own interest.

MINISTER of State for Petroleum and Group Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachukwu yesterday said that the four refineries in the country will require between $300 million to $500 million to function effectively.

lagos—A prosecution witness in ongoing trial of former -Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Patrick Akpobolokemi and six others, yesterday, told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, that he collected the sum of N70 million for a plot of land sold to one of the accused.

Bauchi—No fewer than three persons have died from a fresh outbreak of Lassa Fever, while 10 members of a family are currently infected with the virus in Bauchi State.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday said it has suspended some key personal involved in a fraudulent transaction uncovered by the management.

THE Director-General, National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) , Dr Philip Olusegun Ojo, has disclosed that the council and the Lake Chad Research Institute (LCRI) were working to ensure that improved seeds were made available to farmers.

THE Senate yesterday threw its weight behind the taking over of the legislative functions of the Kogi State House of Assembly by the House of Representatives following the protracted crisis that engulfed the assembly in the last one month.

MANY before now wonder why Nigeria that is the 13th world largest producer of tomato and second in Africa still continue to spend over $300 million yearly on tomato concentrate importation.

Events in the last few weeks have thrown up another round of discourse about Islam. A lot of people have continued to be very offensive about their argument and you wonder why all these trash about Islam. If it is not about terrorism or suicide bombing, it is about abduction and marriage to minor, forceful conversion to Islam among others. They continue to heap all the misdemenour of any Abubakar, Audu or Yunusa on Islam.

ABEOKUTA—The Ogun State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the last election, Prince Gboyega Isiaka and a group within the party, PDP Action Movement have berated the state government on the indefinite industrial action embarked upon by the civil servants and doctors in the state.