Suspected militants in the Niger Delta have continued their onslaught on oil installations with the blowing up of Chevron Valve Platform in Abiteye, Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State.

Imo State Police Command has warned that it would not deal kindly with anybody or group of persons that will ignite any form of crisis in the state.

As preparations gather momentum for the forthcoming Rio Olympics Games in Brazil, the Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC, along with potential sponsors and other stakeholders say they foresee a surprise performance by the Nigerian team at the Games.

A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, yesterday, took over the trial of the former Chairman of Asari-Toru Local Government Area in the state, Mr. Ojukaye Amachree, who was accused of murder.

The Anambra State Government has stopped the use of revenue agents to collect levies, taxes and fees in the state to avoid a situation where unsuspecting citizens are defrauded by the agents who also defraud the state by short-paying the state after collecting the revenues.

The Lagos State Security Trust Fund, LSSTF, has thrown its weight behind the call for the creation of state police, saying it will guarantee security of lives and properties in the state.

Resident doctors at the Federal Medical Centre in Bayelsa State have declared a three days warning strike to draw government’s attention to irregularities in the payment of their salaries.

At least N56 million has been recovered in eight months from ghost workers, dead and retirees of Local Government and Local Education Authorities in the state. This was contained in the quarterly publications made available by the Quarterly Town hall meeting planning committee set up by the State Government; chaired by Permanent Secretary for the Office of Chief of Staff, Mr. Bamgboye. A. the document states the activities of the government ministries and agencies.

Though, the incident occurred in 2005 few days after the late Alake of Egbaland, Oba Oyebade Lipede joined his ancestors, the memory remains fresh in the minds of many people in Ogun State. Revelations about how the remains of late Oba Oyebade Lipede disappeared few hours after the monarch passed on was made by Chief Alani Bankole, father of former speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, at the launch of his book titled “Alake of Egbaland: The Succession Dynamics”.

The Multi purpose hall of the Lagos State Secretariat Mosque, Alausa recently played host to eminent Islamic personalities who converged for the 2016 Biennial Get-together and Investiture of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Muslim Alumni OOUMA with the theme “Global Terrorism: Unmasking the Conspiracy”.

OUR sister, Araminta Ross who became famous as Harriet Tubman, was born a slave in Maryland, United States (US) in 1820. She lived the American nightmare but decided at 29 to change her life of programmed servitude to that of a free person to whom hundreds of slaves directly, owed their freedom.

RESOURCE disbursement is a fundamental issue in Nigeria’s federalism. The nation has federating units with their respective constitutional responsibilities to execute. They also have taxation powers.

ONE of the prosecution witnesses in the on-going trial of three staff of the Central Bank of Nigeria and staff of other commercial banks over alleged stealing of N8.5bn, yesterday told a Federal High Court in Ibadan how the accused allegedly defrauded both the apex bank and Wema Bank of the sum of N340m.

Senator Bode Olajumoke has refuted claims that he rejected a proposal by Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State to contest the office of National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

AGAINST the backdrop of rumours of his planning to quit office, Delta State Commissioner for Information, Mr Patrick Ukah, has said that he had never contemplated resigning from his job over the alleged depletion of his ministry.