The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG), today, appointed Mr. Tony Attah, as its Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, to take over from Babs Omotowa, who had held sway in the organisation since December 2011.

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youths Council has called on Igbo elders to intervene in the political crisis in Abia State, saying that they should not keep quiet on issues like that.

Imo State Police Command says it has got wind of a clandestine plan by some politicians to recruit touts ahead of the re-run elections scheduled to hold July 23, 2016, in the state.

A delegation from the headquarters of the African Development Bank, AfDB, in Abidjan, was in Abia State, Tuesday, to inspect the various dilapidated Federal Roads in Aba with a view to working on them.

A Journalist and entrepreneur, Ayodele Samuel Ayo-Oloye has cautioned the Federal Government on its plans to phase out mud houses in the country, saying it will increase the nation’s housing deficit by 40 Per Cent.

WE will be watching out for buyers and sellers; all we need is just a scapegoat. Don’t buy plantain chips or any other items in traffic from July 1, buyers beware. The issue is we need to enforce our laws because we already have a law in respect of that and then there is a clause in it which says the buyer and the seller are both liable and that we are going to fine them either N90, 000 or a six-month jail term. ”

A local government audit panel set up by the Enugu State government has discovered nearly 4,000 ghost workers in the 17 local government councils.

The South West Coordinating office of Stand Up for Nigeria (SUN), a socio-political group, has held a solidarity rally across major parts of Lagos, reaffirming the Unity of Nigeria and the confidence of the Nigerian masses in President Muhammadu Buhari.

OBIARUKU—ONE person was feared dead and two others injured as members of rival cult groups went on rampage at Obiaruku community, Ukwuani Local Government Area, Delta State.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has lived the life of the quintessential vice president in the past 14 months of his emergence. There is an old American anecdote that portrays the Vice Presidency as a particularly “irrelevant” post in a presidential democracy. It tells of how one Unlce Tom “lost” two of his sons: “one joined the Navy, the other became the Vice President”.

Former governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, yesterday, described Dino Melaye as a disgrace to the Senate.

Ado-Ekiti—Counsel to Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, has replied the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Mrs Aisha Buhari through her counsel, Mary Ekpere & Co, saying the governor’s claim as regards her involvement in the infamous Halliburton scandal was correct and justified in law.

This piece begins with a testimony titled, “The many tyres I have seen”. Events leading to the testimony span over a 37-year period during which I owned many cars, in good times and in bad.

ABUJA—THE House of Representatives yesterday moved to prescribe punishment for employers in the country who either fail to pay salaries to their workers or pay workers salaries, wages and pensions late.

Following recent killing of Mrs Eunice Olawole, wife of the Parish Pastor of the Divine Touch Parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG at Kubwa Satellite town, Abuja, the Christian Association in 19 Northern states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has condemned the killing, saying no stone should remain unturned to bring the perpetrators to book.