EVEN in Kuje prison, people address the leader of the troubled Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, as ‘His Excellency, President of Biafra,’ Charles Okah, also an inmate of the same prison, but nominated recently by two Biafra splinter groups as their new leader, sensationally revealed, yesterday.

Seven Energy Finance Limited, an integrated gas company in Nigeria with operations in the upstream, has raised alarm over the continued attacks of facilities by militants, adding that such illicit acts had impacted on its operations, resulting to a loss in output valued at $42 million in first half of 2016, H1’16.

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An Imo State High Court presided over by Justice Sabinus I. Opara, yesterday, restrained the state government from destroying, relocating or tampering with the Ekeukwu Owerri Market, pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit, HOW/380/2016.

Lagos—La Casera Company Plc has been commended for maintaining high quality standard in the production of beverages and of being in full compliance with National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN and Standard Organisation of Nigeria, SON, regulations regarding food and beverage manufacturing processes.

Arangha and Aliba villages of Isobendeghe in Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State, have petitioned the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs on their purported exclusion from a 12 kilometre internal road project initiated by the ministry for the entire Isobendeghe town.

Lagos—SPEAKER of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr Mudashiru Obasa has called for regular campaigns against violence, rape and abuses as a means of curbing the incessant rape cases in the state.

Managing Director of Continental Reinsurance Plc, Dr Femi Oyetunji, has urged the Federal Government to ensure the full implementation of the local content policy in the insurance of oil and gas risks, insisting that the policy is still under-implemented.

A CHIEFTAIN of the APC in Edo state, Chief Charles Idahosa, has challenged the PDP Governorship Candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu to mention one project the PDP had executed in the state that will warrant the people voting for the party.

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The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, and Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Maikanti Baru, said, yesterday, there was no plan by the Federal Government to hike the price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, otherwise known as petrol.

THE Federal Government has assured hosting communities of environmental justice, protection of their right and peaceful relationship with operators.

THE Minister of Finance said something about putting policies in place that would deal with the economic problems this administration inherited. I have never seen so much gloom in any economy anywhere. Our economy has lost traction. Where are the ideas meant to combat our problem? When these ideas appear they are killed by political infighting.

PROFESSOR Ango Abdullahi, a supremacist and henchman of Northern Elders Forum was one of the memorable” VCs without CV” in the days when the University idea was still close to the ideal in our country .It was the period when those patriots in ASUU naively thought that we were trying to build a country and were pontificating that anybody who would head a university must have a proper academic background and requisite academic publications.They didn’t quite know that we were yet to have a national consensus on nation building.

Super Eagles stars have been left fuming after a N10 million gift by Akwa State Governor was converted to pay for their camp allowances.