PROPERTY including machines, office equipment and raw materials worth over N10 billion was, yesterday, destroyed by a mysterious fire that gutted Vin Val Industries Limited, located at Harbour Industrial Estate Atani Road, Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State.

FOLLOWING recent attacks in Benue State, some concerned Christian and Muslim youths from flash points of Plateau State have expressed their readiness to support peace initiatives by the state government.

THE interim executive of the Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, has declared a three-day mourning in honour of former president general of the union, Olorogun Felix Ibru, the first democratic governor of Delta State, who passed on weekend.

THE URHIE LAKE, which is a unifying force among the people of Igbide community in Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State, is in the throes of a silt scourge.

GOVERNOR Samuel Ortom of Benue State, yesterday restated his determination to probe the administration of his predecessor, Mr Gabriel Suswam.

In an effort to douse insinuations trailing the N23.5 milion monetary pledge to nine pioneer beneficiaries of NYSC-Hope Alive Programme, Heritage Bank, has fulfilled its pledge of N13.5 million for the beneficiaries.

A HEALTHY spiritual wellbeing and faith in God has been described as an essential ingredient for sound mental health.

Guaranty Trust Bank, (GTBank )Plc has recorded N120. 7 billion Profit Before Tax, PBT and proposed dividend of N1.52 per share for the financial year ended December 2015.

Initiative for Public Policy Analysis (IPPA) – the Nigeria-based public policy think tank, has condemned the French Government’s proposed tax on palm oil that will be of disadvantage to Africa, and undermine efforts to alleviate poverty across the continent.

A 27-year old man, Sulaimon Omitogun, who spent three years at Krirkiri Medium Prison over a count charge of possession of firearms, has been discharged and acquitted by a Lagos High Court in Lagos.

As part of efforts to celebrate this year’s World Oral Health Day, Unilever Nigeria Plc is targeting one million children for this year’s oral health campaign even as it renewed commitment towards ensuring a cavity free Nigeria.

Oil and gas companies operating in Nigeria and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, earned about $323.55 million, or N64.71 billion from the export of gas in January, according to data obtained from the Corporation.

LAGOS—governor Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos State and the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Ikenwoli Emiko, yesterday called for peaceful coexistence among the various ethnic groups in Nigeria, noting that the country can only attain prosperity if its people are living harmoniously.

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has said that the ongoing fuel scarcity in the country will continue until the Federal Government took affirmative action on petroleum products availability.

LAGOS— ORGANISED labour in the nation’s power sector, yesterday, berated the Minister of Information, Mr. Lai Mohammed, over insinuations that workers were sabotaging the power sector and that government would deal with them, insisting that the minister was off the mark as far as power supply in the country was concerned.