Akure—ABOUT five gunmen reportedly abducted the Acting Chief Accountant of Federal Medical Centre, Owo, Ondo State, Kayode Asaju.

FOR those schooled in the art of faith, nothing is impossible. We have seen desert lands turned to lush vegetable lands in the states of Israel and Lebanon. We have seen Singapore with no visible mineral resource become a first world country and there are many examples. Why are we finding it difficult to turn our negative situations into positives?

THERE are indications that the country’s energy sector may be far from reaping good returns unless it adopts the necessary structural reforms on its institutions and processes to effect the changes it deserves, experts said.

A Delta State governorship candidate, Chief Great Ogboru and former Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Mr. Victor Ochei, who recently defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, will be formally presented to the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Oyegun and the National Working Committee, today.

The need to bridge the yarning investment gap and re-direct Delta State’s economy to private sector driven will form the main thrust of the maiden Delta State Economic Summit scheduled to hold in Lagos State on June 30.

Founder/CEO of Nigeria’s premiere women-only radio station, W.fm, Toun Okewale Sonaiya, has revealed that the under-representation and stereotyping of women in radio programmes across the country inspired the establishment of W.fm.

The Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, resumed its enforcement shutting tax-defaulting companies in Lagos and Owerri, Imo State. In Lagos, where two FIRS enforcement teams worked in the Apapa area.

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has lost out in its bid to stall the judgement of Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court in Lagos in a suit by a lawyer and rights activist, Toluwani Yemi Adebiyi, over the hike in electricity tariff in the country, as Court of Appeal, Lagos, failed to hear an appeal lodged by the commission.

Iceland hero Ragnar Sigurdsson said England’s over-confidence caused their humiliating 2-1 defeat to the Nordic minnows and they “panicked” in one of the most stunning football upsets.

Chairman, Warri North Local Government, Delta State, Mr. FrancisMaku-Eyituoyor, has described Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State allegation against Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State of recruiting thugs to sway the outcome of the Edo State election to favour the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as an outlandish hallucination.