The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) in Ondo State said on Sunday that it had prosecuted 40 persons for allegedly selling fake and substandard goods.

The Federal Government said on Saturday that it would stabilise the price of rice from April to make it affordable to everybody in the country.

Like the gold rush of California in 19th century America, the small settlement of Oloibiri, a district headquarters in Ogbia in the defunct Eastern Region, came into limelight in second half of the 20th century when workers of Shell Darcy converged on the town in search of the black gold.

Senator Felix Ibru, who died, yesterday, at the age of 80, was a pioneer of sorts in several areas of human endeavour. He excelled not only in his studies and professional calling, but also in the public space where he used his office to push through some of the country’s enduring legislations on public probity. Before the recent rush for the Senate by former governors, Ibru had shown how one could harness experience garnered from executive office with legislative duties to project public policy.

The operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have been very busy in recent times. They have been “fingered” in many “developments” all over the country. One can say the agency is fighting for relevance as the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are daily taking the shine away from other security agencies. In this new political dispensation though, the DSS has “reformatted” and has found far wider roles than it had ever did before.