FORMER students of Nigerian Navy Secondary School, Abeokuta, NNSS, have said in collaboration with the present students of the school; plan to celebrate 25 years existence of the institution to showcase its achievements.

EDO State deputy governor, Dr. Pius Odubu, yesterday, in Benin formally declared his intention to seek the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship ticket in the state’s governorship election slated for September 10, 2016.

RETIRED justice of the Supreme Court, Justice George Oguntade, has said that rule of law is essential for stability and fairness without which individuals and society cannot function.

This past week, Nigerians were visited with more uncertainty over the passing of the 2016 Appropriation Bill into law. Having passed the bill on the respective floors of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the countdown to the constitutional deadline for presidential assent, set at 30 days, expired at the weekend. The Appropriation Bill, which is the formal legislative nomenclature for the Budget, has been the inanimate central character in what has turned into a quite animated caper on the national stage in the last few months.

Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, disqualified herself from presiding over the trial of the erstwhile Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro.

Chelsea loanee Kenneth Omeruo has dismissed rumours he will not be fit for next month’s Super Eagles friendlies against Mali and Luxembourg.

MY attention has been drawn to an interview with one-time Deputy Governor of Edo State, Mr. Lucky Imasuen, published in Vanguard (Thursday, March 31).

Abuja — The House of Representatives, yesterday, halted plans to raise a Federal Government secured bond of N309 billion to finance the “outrageous shortfalls” in the Nigerian electricity market.

DELTA State governorship candidate of Labour Party, LP, in the 2015 election, Chief Great Ogboru, yesterday, resigned his membership of the party, saying he was leaving with all those that came with him from the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, and others of like mind.

AN Itsekiri group, Iwere Development Initiative, IDI, has absolved the Executive Director, Research, Planning and Statistics in Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Engr. Victor Wood, of involvement in a purported petition written to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against the immediate past governor of the state and other persons.