Attempt by Ekiti State Government to restrain the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) from investigating the state finances appear to have hit the rock, as the State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti refused to grant an ex parte order instituted by the Ayo Fayose led administration to restrain the anti-graft agency.

Yenagoa—Former National Youth Leader of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Mr Ebikibina Miriki, yesterday, described as sad for the country’s democracy, Wednesday’s deployment of heavily armed security operatives and cordoning off of Sharks Stadium, venue for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, national convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Kogi State government, yesterday, said it had keyed into the Social Protection Programme, SPP, of the Federal Government to provide youths with employment.

LAGOS—Some rampaging Hausa men damaged a building belonging to Vee-Vee Limited, yesterday, in Oke-Afa, a Lagos suburb, over allegation that an Hausa man had been held hostage in the building since Wednesday.

Recently, the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, through the office of his Special Adviser on Communities and Communications, headed by Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan, took an unprecedented step in the development of local content through community reportage.

THE Nigeria Mortgage Refinancing Company, NMRC, is set to host the 32nd edition of African Union for Housing Finance, AUHF, Conference and Annual General Meeting from September 14 to 16, 2016 in Abuja with the theme, “Housing, an African growth agenda.”

The organized labour in Imo State, has continued to mobilize its members, ahead of the scheduled protest against the alleged anti-labour policies of the state government.

A special enforcement team of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, yesterday, sealed off Haf Haven Hotel in Makurdi allegedly owned by Mrs. Regina Akume, wife of the former Benue State governor, Senator George Akume, over tax evasion.

Following a directive by the Federal Government that all users of the airports, including VIPs must abide by the rules that guide airport operations and services, Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, Saleh Dunoma, has called on concerned organisations and individuals who use the airport facilities to obey traffic rules.

Abuja—About $3.05 trillion will be required over the next 30 years to implement the National Integrated Infrastructure Master Plan, NIIMP, the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, disclosed in Abuja yesterday.