The Federal Government is to resuscitate the Presidential Council on Tourism and set up Tourism Satellite Account to give tourism a new lease of life.

IT is looking brighter, becoming hopeful for truly Nigerian companies in the oil and gas industry, if feelers from the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, presided by Justice Buba, becomes the yardstick to be used in measuring contractual relationships between international and local practitioners in the number one industry in Nigeria.

CALABAR—Christian Donatus, alias Inyang, a Senior Secondary School 2 student of Eastern Secondary School, Ediba, Calabar, leader of the robbery gang that raided Value Mart, the shop owned by former Cross River State First Lady, Obioma Imoke, two weeks ago, has been arrested.

PDP governorship candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has called on the United States and European missions in Nigeria to show interest in the Edo State governorship election in order to ensure a free and fair exercise.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), yesterday, directed banks to review the money set aside for non performing foreign currency loans based on the exchange rate of the naira in the interbank market.

Deputy Governor of Delta State, Mr. Kingsley Otuaro, has reiterated his conviction that Governor Ifeanyi Okowa will continue to deliver on his promises despite challenging economic times.

Registered political parties in Rivers State, under the aegis of Rivers State Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, have expressed disappointment over the suspension of the re-run elections in the state earlier scheduled to hold on July 30.

Meanwhile, the Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, has said that the military under his command will from this weekend launch Operation Ex-Crocodile Smile to practise Special Forces Troops in Amphibious and IS operations in riverine areas in South-South states of the country.

A Shipping firm, Afriglobe Shipping Lines Ltd, has filed a N50million suit against the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS before a Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos over an alleged illegal detention of its Managing Director, Mr. Christian Ukata.

Hon. Justice Niki Tobi, late Justice of the Supreme Court, was notably a simple man – so simple that he was known without any epithet but addressed only as NIKI TOBI! I can’t recall any other Judge within our judicial firmament who was addressed so simply, without any titular adornment or embroidery.