Nigeria and four other ECOWAS have agreed to stop importing toxic fuels from Europe in a move that could improve the health of more than 250 million people, according to the United Nations.

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, worldwide and its Directorate of State, DOS, said it has launched Operation David Dance in response to the Army’s Operation Python Dance.

The International Press Centre, IPC, Lagos, yesterday, pleaded with the Department of State Services, DSS, to release the publisher of Policy and Lawmakers Magazine, Kogi, Mr. Friday Ogungbemi, who was picked up following a publication which allegedly criticised the Chief of Staff to Kogi State Governor, Edward Onojo.

Though neither Governor Nyesom Wike nor his predecessor, Chibuke Amaechi is on the ballot for Saturday’s election, the stakes however, seem to be highest for the two former political allies turned adversaries.

Amid the Atiku Abubakar/Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala campaign posters that have recently flooded the social media space, former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday, said she had nothing to do with the campaign posters suggesting that she would be running alongside former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in the 2019 Presidential election.

Quote is from a novella, Benito Cereno, by Herman Melville, an American novelist. It tells the story of a revolt aboard a Spanish slave ship. Its captain, Benito Cereno, is forced by his ex-captives to pretend that all is well on board when the vessel is discovered by Captain Delano after a storm. Delano wonders why Cereno and his crew, whom he has just rescued from potential shipwreck, act so awkwardly and nervously around the slaves who paradoxically show little or no respect for their authority.

Honourable Famous Daunemigha is one of the architects of the famous Kaiama Declaration in the Niger Delta. He was the former national deputy president of Ijaw youth council. He was also a former governorship candidate of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, in 2011 and the first to bring General Buhari to Bayelsa state. In this interview, he accuses some of President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet members of thwarting efforts to have peace in

NATIONAL Pension Commission, PenCom, as parts of its mandate of conducting public awareness, enlightenment and education on the establishment, operations and management of the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, as stipulated in Section 23 (f) of the Pension Reform Act, PRA, 2014, has taken its drive for effective CPS administration to judges, and other judicial officers to facilitate the task of adjudication on pension matters by Justices and Judges of the apex and lower courts.

GOVERNOR Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, yesterday presented a N93.4 billion budget for 2017 tagged, “Budget of Higher Height” to the state House of Assembly in Ado Ekiti, the state capital.

National and West African featherweight champion, Waidi “Skoro” Usman, has vowed to send Dare “Fighting Machine,” former national champion, on retirement when they clash at GOtv Boxing Night 10 at the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium, Lagos, on 26 December. Fighting Machine is meeting Skoro again after the latter dethroned him as national champion at GOtv Boxing Night 2.