MINISTER of State for Petroleum and Group Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachukwu yesterday said that the four refineries in the country will require between $300 million to $500 million to function effectively.

lagos—A prosecution witness in ongoing trial of former -Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Patrick Akpobolokemi and six others, yesterday, told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, that he collected the sum of N70 million for a plot of land sold to one of the accused.

Bauchi—No fewer than three persons have died from a fresh outbreak of Lassa Fever, while 10 members of a family are currently infected with the virus in Bauchi State.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday said it has suspended some key personal involved in a fraudulent transaction uncovered by the management.

THE Director-General, National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) , Dr Philip Olusegun Ojo, has disclosed that the council and the Lake Chad Research Institute (LCRI) were working to ensure that improved seeds were made available to farmers.

THE Senate yesterday threw its weight behind the taking over of the legislative functions of the Kogi State House of Assembly by the House of Representatives following the protracted crisis that engulfed the assembly in the last one month.

MANY before now wonder why Nigeria that is the 13th world largest producer of tomato and second in Africa still continue to spend over $300 million yearly on tomato concentrate importation.

Events in the last few weeks have thrown up another round of discourse about Islam. A lot of people have continued to be very offensive about their argument and you wonder why all these trash about Islam. If it is not about terrorism or suicide bombing, it is about abduction and marriage to minor, forceful conversion to Islam among others. They continue to heap all the misdemenour of any Abubakar, Audu or Yunusa on Islam.

ABEOKUTA—The Ogun State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the last election, Prince Gboyega Isiaka and a group within the party, PDP Action Movement have berated the state government on the indefinite industrial action embarked upon by the civil servants and doctors in the state.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has called on more women to join the state’s governorship race before the primaries in June, saying that women must be bold to vie for political offices as men were unwilling to yield the ground to them on a platter of gold.

IT was indeed a day of joy for Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in Uhogua Community, Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State, when the Naval Officers Wives Association, NOWA, brought the much-needed relief materials to them at their camp

Over eight hundred members of Producers, Music Dealers and Artistes Association of Nigeria, PMDAAN, Anambra State branch yesterday protested against the Musical Products Dealers Association of Nigeria, MPDAN over an alleged attempt by the later to coerce the former to belong to their association, otherwise, they will be termed pirates.

The Borno Elders Forum has expressed shock over the demise of Major General Yusha’u Mahmood Abubakar, first ‘Theater Commander’ in the war against Boko Haram insurgents, following the relocation of the Military’s Command and Control Center to Maiduguri by President Muhammadu Buhari in May, 2015.

IT was another memorable outing for the organizers of the prestigious AfricaMagic Viewers Choice Awards,AMVCAs, as this year’s edition of the awards ceremony held amid pomp last Saturday night, in Lagos.

A former member of the House of Representatives and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Temi Harriman, has mourned the late Minister of State for Labour, Mr James Ocholi for his doggedness and commitment to the realisation of the Muhammadu Buhari presidential project.