THE three officials of Osun State government, who were kidnapped in Kogi State, yesterday, regained their freedom from their abductors.

lagos—The Corps Marshal and Chief Executive Officer of Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi, weekend said the Federal Government had approved the extension of the validity period of Drivers’ licence to five years.

Five banks quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE have recorded a total Profit After Tax, PAT of N90.07 billion for the first quarter,Q1 financial period ended March 31, 2016, representing a drop of N10.52 billion or 10.5 per cent from N100.59 billion in the corresponding period of 2015.

Workers of Enugu State, under the auspices of the Organised Labour, comprising Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC; Trade Union Congress, TUC, and Joint Public Service Negotiating Council, JPSNC, have debunked report credited to the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, ICPC), alleging that the state government misapplied the Federal Government bailout fund for the liquidation of outstanding salaries and pensions of the public servants in the state.

Niger Delta Indigenous Movement For Radical Change, NDIMRC, has alleged that a former Group Executive Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, was desperately working to become the Group Managing Director of NNPC, even as they dismissed rumours that Dr Ibe Kachikwu has been sacked as the GMD of the corporation.

Heritage Bank has introduced two customer reward programmes, MyHeritageReward and HBConcourse, designed to appreciate and encourage customer loyalty.

The adoption of Nigeria as the hub of Africa’s Centre for Disease Control (ACDC) is instructive. It followed the clearance by the African Union of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to host not just the West African sub-regional CDC, but also the African CDC Regional Collaborating Centre, based on the quality and integrity of the health structures and facilities in the country.

The Acting Director-General of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Dr Paul Angya, has given reasons why the agency’s standard enforcers have resorted to chasing trailers and containers on the highways rather than other less risky methods of enforcing standards.

The Osun State Government, yesterday said the Independent Corrupt Practices and Related Offences Commission, ICPC, did not indict it over the application of the N34.988 billion bailout funds it got last year.

Niger Delta activist and chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Ayirimi Emami, has urged the Federal Government to seriously consider full deregulation of the oil and gas sector, insisting that it was the only way to end the endless fuel crisis in Nigeria.

For Nigeria’s and Africa’s women, youth, rural populations, the urban poor, the underemployed and unemployed, the current economic realities offer no hope for a change in their circumstances. Mass poverty is endemic across the continent, and shows no signs of waning.

No fewER than six people were killed, six houses razed, and about 15 vehicles burnt in Kaduna and Ondo states, Saturday, as fire gutted filling stations, just as officers of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Ogun State Command, invaded a MRS Filling Station and reportedly attacked five workers at the station in Ogun State.

As part of programmes to mark its 23rd anniversary, non-banking finance institution, Rosabon Financial Services has entered into a strategic partnership with a non government organisation, NGO Mamamoni, to empower 23 women with soft grants and capacity building.

NIGER Delta oil-rich coastal communities of Ojobo, Ogbotobo and Tarakiri Cluster Development Board, TCDB, comprising Egbemo, Angalabiri, Ojobo, Ogbotobo, Agbayama, Agbidiama and other satellite communities, both in Burutu and Ekeremo Local Government Areas of Delta and Bayelsa States, have said that there was no time they issued quit notice to Saipem and other oil firms operating in their localities.

lagos—A Federal High Court in Lagos has restrained management of Belbop Nigeria Limited, from dissipating the assets of the company, pending the determination of a winding up petition against the firm by an American international oil and gas services conglomerate, Baker Hughes Group over alleged debt of $12 million.