Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi, Corps Marshal and Chief Executive Officer of Federal Road safety Corps, FRSC, was the guest of Vanguard editors at the company’s corporate headquarters, Apapa recently. He spoke on the operations and activities of the Corps under his supervision in the last two years. In the cause of the interaction he shed light on the proposed speed limiter which the Corps said would be in use from October 1, 2016.

The last Wednesday announcement by the Benin Traditional Council (BTC), shifting the expected coronation of the new Oba of Benin, His Royal Highness, Crown Prince Ehenede Erediauwa, Edaiken N’Uselu, from 26th September 2016 to October 20th 2016, has cleared the stage for political actors in Edo state to deliver their governorship candidates come September 28th.

Deliberately, the APC governorship candidate in the Edo State election, Mr.Godwin Obaseki, is being positioned as a ‘’technocrat” by some political elite, who had consistently made attempts to sell him to the electorate for the coming election.

The All Progressives Congress,APC yesterday in Abuja justified its decision to jettison the recommendations of its Appeal Committee on the September 3 conduct of governorship primary elections in Ondo state.

DEPUTY Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has appealed to the Chinese Government to assist Nigeria to get out of its current economic recession.

My governor is a man who sees the future. In this cabinet, there are six senior bankers and five chartered accountants. It means that we are not scared of numbers. So, when we talk about recession, we are considering what it means for Ndi Anambra. Bearing this in mind, all of us constituted a think- tank to evolve ways of reducing the effect of the recession on the people.

President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to the international community not to further delay or downplay the need for humanitarian intervention in Nigeria’s North-East and the Lake Chad Basin.

Residents of Green Field estate in Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos, are presently gripped with fear, following invasion by thugs allegedly hired by an aggrieved resident to harass some of them.

The Ogun State High Court sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta has convicted a traditional ruler in the state, Najeem Aromaye, the Oniro of Iro in Obafemi-Owode Local Government area of the state for contempt.

T here is no gainsaying the fact that Nigeria is presently on the grip of alarming social vices, notable among which is cultism, following screaming headlines on activities of cultists which have led to loss of lives and wanton destruction of property, almost on daily basis.

It is largely a loss to the state and to the country because INEC had come out to say for each day that the election is postponed the nation is losing about N8 million. If I’m correct and in terms of logistics again, we have to spend more money to mobilise everyone back to the state again.

MINNA- Niger state police command has faulted the invation of Bosso Communities in the state recently by the Army which led to the death of no fewer than 24 people out of which 11 of them were soldiers with property worth millions of Naira also destroyed.

IJAW Youth Council, IYC, Friday, criticised President Muhammadu Buhari over his call on the United Nations to broker the release of the Chibok girls with Boko Haram terrorists.

The indigenes of Bama have donated 5,000 men to secure the town against any form of aggression. The indigenes also revealed that fund have been pulled together to support the state government financing of the ongoing reconstruction of the town.

Angered by the probe of Dame Patience Jonathan’s accounts by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, thousands of Ijaw youths on Friday stormed the Port Harcourt Zonal office of the commission to protest against the treatment meted out to the former First Lady.