Senate yesterday mandated the Federal Ministry of Works and Federal Emergency Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA, to urgently carry out a holistic reconstruction of all portions of the country’s roads that had become death trap to the motoring public.

Edo State House of Assembly has amended the bill for a law to establish the Edo State University, Iyamoh. With the amendment, the university is now known as Edo University of Iyamoh.

All appears not to be well with veteran Nollywood actor, Martins Njubuigbo, popularly known as Elder Maya.

THE media are replete with the exploits of Nigerian troops in hunting down and destroying the camps of cattle rustlers who attack herdsmen and dispossess them of their cattle.

Jude Ndukwe, aide to erstwhile Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, on Tuesday, decried that despite meeting the bail conditions set by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Fani-Kayode was still being held by the anti-graft agency.

A group of unidentified angry villagers, said to be from Umuago, Urualla, Ideato North local council area of Imo State, have attacked and destroyed part of the proposed Imo European University, IEU.

There was tension in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, yesterday, following the murder of a senior police officer, identified as Mathew Akpos by gunmen described as “special Police Squad.”

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, yesterday, warned all the mobile network operators in the country to comply by with its directive of dedicating a short code, 2442, on their networks for use by subscribers to opt-in to a database that would enable them register their numbers against unsolicited messages.

Former employees of Bua International Limited yesterday crippled the Victoria Island Head office of the company over alleged unpaid benefits following the sale of its subsidiaries to Olams Group.

The Nigerian Export Promotion Council, NEPC, said it had re-doubled effort to grow the country’s export sector and also help in diversifying the economy, especially in the wake of the low price of crude oil.

AHEAD of Edo State governorship election fixed for September 10, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, women from the three senatorial zones, yesterday in Benin, demanded that the party presents a female candidate as deputy governor for the election.

TOTAL Oil Company has lamented the spate of insecurity in its host communities around OML 58 in Rivers State.

THERE is one thing that modernity, Christianity and education have not extricated from the psyche of communities in Cross River State: the proclivity to settling scores and disagreements with one another through machetes and guns.

A royal father in Kogi State, the Maigari of Lokoja, Muhammed Makarfi II has called on the Federal Government to revisit and implement the 1976 Dasuki Local Government reform, saying it was the only solution to the barrage of problems facing the third tier of government.

NIGERIA hopes to use a proposed Islamic bonds issuance programme to help fund big infrastructure needs.