A member of the national management/ reconciliation committee of the Independent Petroleum Markers Association of Nigeria,IPMAN created by the Federal Government, Dr Leo Nkameme yesterday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to as a matter of urgency, probe the officers of the Petroleum Products Management Company, PPMC, for alleged fraud.

The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, yesterday, slated May 31 to hear an appeal the Senate President, Dr. Bulola Saraki lodged against his trial before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT.

Niger State governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello has canceled the sponsorship of pilgrims by the state government to Mecca and Jerusalem with immediate effect.

SOLDIERS invaded Kokodiagbene, another Ijaw community in Gbaramatu clan, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, weekend, in search of members of Niger Delta Avengers who went underground after their meeting in Bayelsa State, last week.

THE Prince Olagusoye Oyinlola led peace committee sent to Edo State by the national leadership of the party, met with stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the weekend to find a lasting solution to the problem confronting the party in the state ahead the governorship election.

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry [LCCI , yesterday, called on the Federal Government and the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, to dialogue for more effective communication following the proposed national strike by NLC.

THE National Youth Service Corps,NYSC,yesterday,hinted that it may not be able to mobilise Corps members to camp this Friday, as earlier arranged due largely to paucity of fund.

The skyrocketing prices of goods and services across the country have reflected in Nigeria’s inflation rate climbing to a near six-year high of 13.7 percent in April, 0.9 percentage point higher than the previous month’s level of 12.8 percent.

A Delta State High Court, sitting in Asaba, yesterday, sentenced two Fulani herdsmen, Hassan Abidu and Yakubu Salem, suspected to be members of a group of armed nomads terrorizing indigenes of Ibusa and its environs, especially farmers, to 20 years in jail with hard labour.

WIFE of popular comedian in Rivers state, Mrs Chime Mike Ogbolosingha, has been kidnapped in Obio Akpor local government area of the state.

Dr. Isaiah Osifo, who served as chief of staff in the Oserheimen Osunbor administration, has called for the application of zoning in the determination of the APC governorship candidate as a way of bringing the needed political balance to the state.

THE five South-South governors elected on the platform of the PDP may have decided to take up Comrade Adams Oshiomhole on his claim that he would defeat all of them in their respective states in one on one popularity contests.

Imo State government has read the riot act to traditional rulers in the state against inciting media publications, following the expected election into the state council of traditional rulers in five months time.

Fresh hope rose last week for Nigerian Tuberculosis, TB, patients as the World Health organisation unveiled a novel rapid diagnostic test and a shorter, cheaper treatment regimen that would speed up detection and improve treatment outcomes for multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).

OLUASIRI- A meeting convened, penultimate Saturday, by the people of Olusari, Nembe Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, to jaw-jaw on the security challenges and other issues besetting the riverine community took another dimension when enraged villagers overthrew their monarch for supposedly ruling them outside their homeland and insensitivity to the predicament.