President Muhammadu Buhari last week assembled one of the biggest ministerial delegations of his presidency and boarded a plane to China.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the leadership of the Senate to “immediately withdraw the unconstitutional summon for Justice Danladi Umar, Chairman Code of Conduct Tribunal to appear before its Ethics Committee, as the Senate can’t arrogate to itself the power to summon judges without violating constitutional safeguards.”

Billionaire Donald Trump and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton won sweeping victories in the New York primary Tuesday, bolstering their bids to secure the Republican and Democratic nominations for the White House.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation said 1,194 trucks of petrol were loaded nationwide on Tuesday.

DEPUTY President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, said yesterday that if war against corruption must be achieved in all its ramifications, there was the urgent need to establish special anti-corruption courts.

THE Senate disclosed, yesterday, that senators unanimously rejected the proposed loan to purchase their vehicles, saying none of the 109 lawmakers was interested in it.

PUBLICITY Secretaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-West states have called for spiritual assistance for Governor of Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti, saying he needs it to overcome his mental condition that is negatively altering the workings of his mind.

Human rights activist and lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), yesterday, faulted the invitation extended to the Code of Conduct Tribunal Chairman, Justice Danla-di Umar, by the Senate Ethics Committee.

NIGERIANS were jolted last Sunday when media reports credited to the Department of State Services, DSS, to the effect that the Service uncovered 55 shallow graves in a forest in Abia State, where the bodies of five Hausa-Fulani men were allegedly buried.

LAGOS — Indigenous service companies have asked to be involved in the construction of $14 billion Dangote Oil Refinery as a way of avoiding enormous capital flight from Nigeria.

Washington — The Governor of the Central bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has said the Federal Government was talking with China so it would also be importing some of its own requirements from Nigeria.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said yesterday that the Federal Government had uncovered 37,395 ghost workers on the payroll of the Federal Civil Service, which led to a loss of about N1 billion.

lagos—Hundreds of Arik Air passengers were yesterday stranded at the General Aviation Terminal, GAT, Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos following the grounding of its operations by unions over the airline’s N12.5 billion indebtedness to the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN.

THE Acting General Officer, Commanding Division 7 of the Nigeria Army, Victor Ezugwu, escaped a Boko Haram ambush yesterday morning, a statement from the Army Headquarters, signed by Col Sani Usman, said.

WITH less than a year into his first four-year term in office, President Muhammadu Buhari is already being wooed and prodded to contest for a second term in 2019. Those championing this are some members of the national caucus of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and other interest groups within the party.