The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, dragged the Chairman of Atlantic Energy Brass Development Limited and Atlantic Energy Drilling Concept Limited, Jide Omokore, before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, over alleged criminal diversion of over $1.6 billion belonging to the Federal Government under the guise of oil swap.

FOLLOWING the extension of the ban imposed by the European Union, EU, on beans and other food products, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has scaled up monitoring of the performance of stakeholders involved in the exportation of Nigerian food products.

WARRI—ANOTHER Ijaw youth has been abducted at Ovwian, Udu Local Government Area, Delta State, after three were hijacked, weekend, while two boats carrying Urhobo natives escaping from Ijaw communities overturned on Sunday at Burutu, but the occupants were rescued alive.

West Texas Intermediate for December delivery yesterday rose by $1.19, or 2.6 percent, to $46.88 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

KHANA—WOMEN of Wiikemaa-Kor community, Bori, Khana Local Government Area, Rivers State, adorning black clothes, besieged the Police Area Command, Bori and council secretariat, last week, protesting alleged invasion of the town and rape of their daughters by armed men from neighboring Wiiyakara community.