PORT HARCOURT— Unidentified gunmen, yesterday, abducted a chief in Ubima community, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State and demanded N20 million as ransom.

NSIT IBOM- WOMEN of Obotim Nsit community, Nsit Ibom Local Government Area, Akwa-Ibom State have vowed to protest nude to summon the wrath of the gods against government and a gas company whose pipeline was blown up in the community by the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, July 24, for allegedly abandoning them to their fate after the destructive incident.

PORT HARCOURT—A laywer activist in Rivers State, Barr. Ken Atsuwete, was yesterday assassinated in Aluu community, Ikwerre local government by unknown gunmen.

ABUJA— THE Senate, yesterday, described the negative perception about it by the public as worrisome.

Dutse—Jigawa State government has released N75.9 million as loans to the state Council of Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, and Council of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, for the purchase of tricycles for its members.

LAGOS— As part of efforts to generate employment and increase the share of contribution from the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector to Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, Zinox Technologies has secured a whopping $25 million counterpart funding to roll out three digital hubs in Nigeria.

Analysts at FBN Quest, research arm of FBN Merchant Bank Limited, have maintained a neutral rating on the shares of Dangote Cement Plc, despite its improved performance in the second quarter of 2016, Q2’16.

THE Nigeria Gas Association, NGA, yesterday indicated its interest in ensuring synergy between the private sector and the Federal Government to drive a cost reflective tariffs and promoting investments in the gas and power sector.

Coordinator of Ijaw Monitoring Group, IMG, and former publicity secretary of Ijaw National Congress, INC, Comrade Joseph Evah, has expressed confidence in the Chief Edwin Clark-led one-day high level stakeholders consultative meeting of Niger Delta coastal states.

Edo State is reputed to be the heart beat of the nation and very influential in national politics. I do not know how to categorise it now, but after the Ogbemudia administrative era, successive military administrations so messed up the place that criminal elements, including the Aninis of this world, held sway for some time.

ENUGU—BOARD Chairman of Enugu State Universal Basic Education, ENSUBEB, Mr. Ikeje Asogwa, yesterday said that only the best brains will be recruited by the board in the ongoing primary school teachers’ recruitment exercise.

WARRI—FEAR has gripped residents of Ijaw communities in Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, as hundreds have relocated following the deployment of soldiers, who shot randomly in the area, weekend.

MAKURDI—Former Senate President, Senator David Mark, yesterday, awarded scholarships to over 2,100 students of higher institutions from the three senatorial zones of Benue State for the 2015/2016 academic session.

ABAKALIKI—EBONYI State government in collaboration with The Carter Centre, TCC, has trained 687 school teachers and treated over 435,676 school age children with prazinquatel in 687 schools across seven local government areas of the state.

ENUGU—The Enugu State Chapter of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has called on the federal government to take urgent and drastic measures to put an end to the incessant attacks and killings of innocent citizens by suspected Fulani herdsmen.