ASABA—PROMINENT Deltans across ethnic divide, yesterday, paid glowing tributes to the first governor of Delta State, Olorogun Felix Ibru, as he was laid in state at the Unity Hall, Government House, Asaba.

LAGOS—THE Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN, has faulted the Federal Government’s reported refusal to restore the single four-year tenure for Permanent Secretary and two-term of four years (eight years) tenure for Directors in the Federal Civil Service.

ado-Ekiti— Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has said his administration is correcting the lopsidedness in the state’s civil service and won’t allow anybody to bastardise the system.

An online logistics solution, Kobo360, has been launched to drive parcel and mail deliveries for individuals and Small and Medium and Enterprises, SMEs across Nigeria.

THE Nigerian Army, Navy, Police and Department of State Services, DSS, have deployed personnel in strategic locations in Warri, Effurun and environs in Delta State, following intelligence report that ex-militants plan to protest the non-payment of their monthly allowances.

Lagos—The Chief Medical Director of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Professor Wale Oke, yesterday announced that a successful kidney transplant was performed by a team of indigenous medical experts in the hospital.

The people of Mbiri kingdom, in Ika North East Local Government Area are now living in fear following the gruesome murder of 18-year-old girl, Miss Faith Ijeamaka, who was beheaded with her breasts and genitals cut off.

ABUJA—Irked by the recent attacks on Kuje and Koton Karfe Medium Prisons, the Federal Government has announced plans to equip its prison formations with Closed Circuit Television Cameras, CCTVs, for enhanced surveillance. Minister of Interior, Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd), stated this yesterday in Abuja while addressing top officials of the Nigerian Prisons Service at a meeting described by participants as “soul-searching.”

Lagos—A fake travel agent, Benjamin Danbawa, was yesterday arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court in Lagos, for allegedly duping an Aba, Abia State-based trader of N1,703,000.

A former chairman of Iwhrekan community, in Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State, Mr. George Djukpan, has called on Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, and its three host communities in OML34 to collectively protect oil facilities in the area.

In the decade and a half since Chief Bola Ige was murdered while serving as Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, the Nigerian public has gone from the tortured feelings of shock and outrage to resignation and now cautious hope that justice may, at last, be done.

There is something truly rotten about the state of our National Assembly. Like many aspects of Nigerian public life the National Assembly represents a moral blackhole in the firmament of the country’s existence. The whole place needs to be overhauled if our country is to regain its moral health.

THE Vice Chancellor of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, Professor Francis Otunta has charged new graduates of Veterinary Medicine from the institution to practice the profession in strict compliance with the ethics of the profession.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday, directed banks operating in the country to accept deposit of cheques into savings account and to begin to embed Bank Verification Number, BVN in payment cards.

Nigeria is the oldest team in the table tennis event with an average age of 35.2years.