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.