THE Independent National Electoral Commssion, INEC, has said that it will not return to Rivers until the state is conducive to conduct elections.
The INEC spoke as the heavy shootings that characterised weekend’s federal and some state legislative re-run elections in Rivers, yesterday, petered out and became a verbal warfare among stakeholders in the polls as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and All Progressives Congress, APC, traded blames over the issue.

NIGERIANS craze for Sport Utility vehicles, SUVs, has no comparison. There is hardly any auto brand of Sports Utility Vehicle that you can’t find in the country. Some of these SUVs come into the country as brand new vehicles or used ones. But no matter how they come, there is always a huge demand for Sport Utility Vehicles for some reasons.

The management of Indorama Eleme Fertiliser & Chemicals Ltd., IEPL, has said it is not afraid of threats by the Federal Government to look into the sale of the petrochemical company, which it acquired in 2006 under the privatisation exercise.

Team Dangote has emerged champions of the MTN sponsored 2016 Presidents’ cup tournament of the Lagos Polo Club. The final game of the 3-day tournament was held at the weekend with team Dangote defeating team Shinkafi 6-4.

Ahead of the 2017 AFCON qualifier between Nigeria and Egypt, the air of optimism in the Super Eagles camp has been overwhelming and this was aptly expressed by the NFF President Amaju Pinnick when he said visiting Pharaohs can’t escape defeat in Kaduna.

To increase awareness on oral health care in Nigeria, members of the dental community, employees of Unilever Nigeria Plc, dental students, dental practitioners and dental therapists took to major streets of Lagos to sensitise Nigerians on the need to brush their teeth twice daily with fluoridated toothpaste.

THE Founder of Elizade Nigeria Limited, Chief Michael Ade Ojo has described the new automobile brand addition to the Elizade Group, the JAC brand, as “the diamond in the rough today that Toyota was over 40 years ago.”

The Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, yesterday, disagreed with the Auditor-General of the Federation, Mr. Samuel Ukura, over the alleged N4.9 trillion which he claimed the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, failed to remit to the Federation Account.

Former Military Administrator of Delta State, Air Commodore Luke Ochulor, has asked politicians in the country to reduce tension by emulating the humility and sincerity of his successor in office, late Senator Felix Ibru. Ibru died last week at the age of 80.

Thirteen robbery suspects linked to Lekki, Ikorodu, Agbara and Festac bank robberies, were yesterday remanded in prison custody by an Ebute -Meta Magistrate Court.

The suspects who were arrested separately by operatives of the Inspector General of Police, IGP’s Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT, in Lagos, Ogun, Edo, Oyo and Rivers States, were brought before Chief Magistrate, O.I Adelaja, in a nine count charge bordering on armed robbery, murder, attempted murder and illegal possession of fire arms.

Some of Africa’s leaders are responsible for the instability on the continent because they failed to manage diversity in their societies, former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has said.

Nigeria’s former Permanent Representative to the United Nations, UN, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, has said China’s successes may present an alternative development path for the country, which is different from the Western neo-liberal system that had long been prescribed.

AS the zero hour to the make or break AFCON 2017 qualifier between Nigeria and Egypt on March 25 approaches swiftly, stand-in coach, Samson Siasia is confident that his Eagles will convert the chances that come their way at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium in Kaduna.

Twenty years into the educational, vocational and social care services for children and young adults with disabilities in the country, Children’s Developmental Centre, CDC, and partners have called on Nigerians to learn to show compassion to people living with disabilities in the country.

THE Court of Appeal sitting in Benin, Edo State, yesterday, adjourned to April 4, 2016, hearing in the contempt proceedings initiated against the Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Mr. Victor Edoror and the Clerk of the House, Mr. Lawson Ugiagbe, over their refusal to swear in the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Sylvanus Eruaga, as the representative of Etsako West constituency II, in the House to enable both parties to reconcile their internal differences on the matter.