Delta State Government has engaged a consultant to carry out a feasibility study on Monorail Transit System in Asaba, the state capital, as it restated its resolve to sell the Independent Power Plant, IPP, project in Oghara, Ethiope West Local Government Area of the state.

It will no longer be business as usual for the various Teaching Hospitals and training institutions in the country as the newly appointed President of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, NPMCN, has vowed to deal decisively with training institutions that fail to comply with accreditation standards.

THE Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) has shut two companies for alleged failure to remit a N4.01 million Personal Income Tax of their employees to the state government. Mrs Ajibike Oshodi-Sholola, Head, Distrain Unit of the LIRS, said this after a state-wide tax law enforcement in Lagos on Tuesday.

There is acute shortage of land in the Igbo states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo, hence the increase in rent payable in the cities of the south eastern states.

As the grading of the 260 km superhighway nears completion, Cross River State Government and Liebherr Ltd, an earth moving and mining equipment company with branches in Germany and Nigeria, have agreed on a pact.

DELTA State Government is to partner Mobile Tutor Limited, M-Tutor, an Indian organisation, to boost the delivery of practical skills to students of technical colleges and vocational centres.

Following the recommendation of the National Judicial Council, NJC, and the approval of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Governor Nyesom Wike, yesterday, swore in Justice Adama Iyayi-Lamikanra as the substantive Chief Judge of the state.

THERE are indications that Nigeria may, very soon, have first Information and Communications Technology, ICT University in the country, to underscore the rapid growth and pervasive diversified business culture technology has engendered in the nation

The National Working Committee, NWC, of the Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, yesterday, rejected the result of the Abia North Senatorial re-run election conducted last weekend in Abia State.

To say that these are not the best of times for people either living in or passing through Imo State, will safely translate to telling the truth. The criminals have not ceased from injecting new and deadly tactics in the criminal lexicon of the state.

The Lagos State Government yesterday said it would no longer tolerate the illegal activities of land grabbers otherwise known as Omo-Onile, just as it warned that anyone found using such to disturb public peace and illegally disposes people of their property would be prosecuted in accordance with relevant criminal laws.

The Kogi State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja, yesterday, adjourned further proceeding on the case that was brought before it by Hon. James Faleke of the All Progressives Congress, APC, till next week Monday.

Troops of 26 and 28 Task Force Brigades repelled an early morning daring attack by fleeing Boko Haram terrorists on military locations at Pulka and Bitta in the fringes of Sambisa forest.

AHEAD of the 2016 governorship election in Edo State, national leadership of All Progressives Congress, APC, led by its Vice Chairman, South-South, Mr Hilliard Ettah, has denied allegation that delegates list for the governorship primaries had been tampered with.

Religion in Nigeria produces zealots who spew gender inequality and discrimination masquerading as religious doctrine.The pursuit of power at any cost is the hallmark of many religious organisations. The Bishop of the Wusasa Diocese of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Kaduna State, Reverend Ali Lamido, recently bemoaned a situation whereby the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, “turned government houses into ATMs”.