THE House of Representatives, yesterday, moved to probe the status and sale of non-core assets of Power Holdings Company of Nigeria, PHCN.

THE world is at war. In most parts, this year that marks the Centenary of the First World War, is witnessing horrendous conflicts. In that war, the main actors proclaimed, ‘no more wars!’ Twenty three years later, they were back in a ‘war to end all wars’.

THE Senate, yesterday, finally passed the North-East Development Commission Bill which empowers the Federal Government to set up a commission to rebuild the region, following its devastation by Boko Haram insurgents.

THE professor was urged to drop the electronic device so that the process would be manipulated without success. Our vaults were emptied to buy votes but those sent kept the money in their underground wells. Nigerians were used as collateral for more loans that were shared amongst them. A blue-blooded retired army officer was given our national ATM card. It has no withdrawal limit.

WARRI—THE Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, yesterday shut down two oil servicing firms in Warri, Delta State, over alleged tax default running into hundreds of millions of Naira.

PORT HARCOURT— TRADERS at Oyigbo Timber Market, Oyigbo Local Government Area, Rivers State, have decried the alleged delay by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to investigate allegations of embezzlement of N100 million against the immediate past executive of the market.

Policemen attached to Lion Building Division, Lagos, have smashed a syndicate that specialised in threatening members of the public to pay certain amounts or be kidnapped, with the arrest of Abiodun Joshua, a member of the syndicate.

PORT HARCOURT—MANAGEMENT of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, UPTH, has raised an alarm over mosquitoes’ invasion of the hospital, saying it is a scourge that needs urgent attention.

HISTORY was made, yesterday, in Benin Kingdom, as the 40th Oba in the Oranmiyan dynasty was crowned.

Doctors at Araba Medical Hospital in Abule-Egba area of Lagos are trying their best on a newly-wedded woman, who was allegedly stabbed many times by her landlord’s son for allowing a man, considered as an enemy of the landlord, into her apartment at Ishaga Street.