Oyo State House of Assembly on Thursday passed a bill banning smoking in public places in the state. The “Bill to Regulate Smoking in Public Places and for Connected Purposes’’ also provides three to six months imprisonment or fine of between N15, 000 and N50, 000 for offenders. The bill was sponsored by Mr Segun Ajanaku and Mr Segun Olaleye, representing Ibadan South-West II and Ibadan North II constituencies, respectively.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh says 11 states have provided 55,000 hectares to establish ranches to curb farmers and pastoralists clashes in their states.

The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu said Nigerians would soon have reasons to celebrate, following ongoing efforts to transform Nigeria from a resource based to a knowledge economy. This is contained in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja by the Chief Press Secretary to the minister, Mr Taye Akinyemi.

Mr Legborsi Pyagbara, the President of Movement for Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), has urged violent agitators in the Niger Delta and other parts of the country to embrace dialogue.

The House of Representatives on Thursday mandated its Committee on Human Rights, National Security and Intelligence, to investigate the alleged killing of unarmed civilians in the South East on May 30.

The Federal Government has scrapped post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, UTME, as a pre-condition to gaining admission into universities in the country.

In continuation of its relentless efforts in bringing corrupt public officers to justice, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, June 2, 2016 arraigned Air Vice Marshall Olutayo Tade Oguntoyinbo before Justice Olukayode A. Adeniyi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Apo, Abuja on one count charge of bribery to the tune of N166million (one hundred and sixty-six million naira).

The Police Service Commission (PSC) on Thursday said it shortlisted 338,227 applicants out of the 911,438 that applied for recruitment into the Nigeria Police Force.

Organised Labour in Ekiti said on Thursday no amount of intimidation would stop the ongoing strike in the state.

Still leaking its wounds over what it called irresponsible and senseless killing of their members and innocent no members, the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB Thursday told South East Governors, politicians and those who claim to be Ibo and non Ibo elder statesmen to emulate the Governor Ayodele Fayoshe of Ekiti state for being outspoken and condemning the killing of non violent Biafra agitators.