LAGOS— A Niger Delta activist and cousin of former President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, Mr Azibaola Robert, who has been in the custody of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, since March 23, 2016, has dragged the Federal Government before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, challenging his continued detention.

A seven-man panel has started screening business proposals from 40,000 candidates that applied for the Bank of Industry (BoI) N10 billion Youths Entrepreneurship Support (YES) programme.

Some shareholder groups yesterday in Lagos called for review of the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) in view of unclaimed dividends piling at the capital market.

Indigenous oil and gas companies, under the aegis of Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria, PETAN, have expressed frustrations over their inability to access over $500 million that had accrued in the Nigerian Content Fund, saying this had put them in a disadvantage position in the execution of projects in the industry.

League of Young Edo Professionals, LEYEP, has taken a swipe at the deputy governor of Edo State, Dr. Pius Odubu, for going ahead with his campaigns when the whole of Edo State is mourning the death of the Oba of Benin, His Royal Majesty, Oba Erediauwa.

PROPRIETOR of Truis Computer Institute TCI, Mr. Olu Oduyoye, has called on Nigerian students to familiarize themselves with information technology skills, as it is a prerequisite to gaining employment in a global competitive world.

UGHELLI—MEN of the 222 Battalion, Operation Pulo Shield, Agbarha-Otor, Ughelli have arrested a traditional Chief for allegedly vandalising and selling pipes belonging to the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company, NPDC.

TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, yesterday, advised state governors not to in their interest heed the call by Dr. Doyin Okupe, former Special Adviser to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan that they should sack thousands of their employees.

Players of Giwa FC are grumbling over the uncertainties hanging over them as the Jos club will be thrown out of the Nigeria Professional Football League should they fail to honour a second straight league match this weekend.

THE drum has always played supporting roles in major festivals as it has never had its own festival,but last week, the cultural instrument took the centre stage in what was tagged, First Nigerian drums festival. And as it turned out to be, for the very first time drummers from over 19 states of the federation and beyond gathered at the ancient city of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital for the maiden edition of the Nigerian drums festival now renamed African drums festival.

Famed as the Peoples General, Olorogun Great Ogboru, serially AD, DPP, Labour Party governorship candidate in Delta State is set to leave his latest political haven. However, his exit strategy, this time, is clouded by much controversy.

Eight of the 16 Kano state secondary students that were in Lagos state for a quiz competition reportedly lost their lives in a ghastly motor accident along Iroko road, via Ibadan, Oyo State, while returning to Kano on Tuesday.

THE chicken has come home to roost. It is time to end the tomfoolery or else… For more than forty years, state governors have gathered in Lagos (when it was still the Federal capital) and now Abuja, to share the federal revenue accruing mostly from our oil resources. It was a military-decreed sharing formula that ensured that the Federal Government would always get more than the states and local governments put together.

A former minister, Senator Iyabo Anisulowo, who was abducted last Wednesday, has described the seven days she spent with her abductors as “terrible and dehumanising.”

Amidst the lingering budget debacle between the executive and the legislative arms of government, Federal Government has sustained its local borrowing plans with additional N105 billion slated to be raised from the bonds market next Wednesday.