LAGOSIANS may no longer need the services of petrol station attendants to buy fuel, as a 24-hour, self-dispensing filling station debuts. The station, owned by Pinnacle Oil and Gas Limited, has 28 nozzles, with each dispensing pump having POS receipts.

ABUJA — THE National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has promised members of the party nationwide that there would be no more imposition of candidates under his leadership, in view of the forthcoming congresses and national convention of the party.

This is definitely not the best of time for the Apostle of Stomach Infrastructure and the Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, as there seem to have been a complete crackdown on the state by operatives of the Department of State Security, close allies of the Governor were reportedly being picked for yet to be disclosed crimes.

The orgy of killings continued in Rivers State, yesterday, with a middle-aged man, hacked and burnt in Buguma Town, in Asari-Toru Local Government Area of the state by suspected political thugs.

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has remanded in prison custody former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, who was accused of diverting over N3.9 billion from accounts of the Nigerian Air Force.

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.

YOUTHS of Erhunrhun –Uneme community, Akoko Edo Local Government Area, Edo State, have reportedly cordoned the access road leading to Ogute-Okpella, Etsako East Local Government Area of the state, as tension mounts between the two border towns, which clashed over land, last month.
One person reportedly died, five proclaimed missing, while over100 persons fled their homes in the February 21 fracas that witnessed the destruction and burning of several houses and vehicles.

The Awujale of Ijebuland, HRH Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, has instituted a professorial chair of N250 million at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun state.

DESPITE Nigeria’s lobbying of some Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, to cut production, to shore up global crude oil prices, the International Energy Agency, IEA has said that cutting production may not resolve the current oil glut.

Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mr. Aniekan Umanah, in this interview, speaks on the milestones so far achieved by the administration of Governor Udom Emmanuel among other issues.

I DO not know how many of our senior government officials who take their time to go by road transportation in this country. If they do and are allowed to face the experience it will be of tremendous benefit to this nation. I mean truly travelling round this country once in a while by road, without the over bearing presence of the paraphernalia of offices, including sirens and escorts. As they say “seeing is believing” and “experience is the best teacher”.

Niger Delta ex-militants are not behind recent robberies and other forms of criminal acts in Lagos, the Presidential Amnesty Office said yesterday.

Athletics Federation of Nigeria has released the list of athletes for the IAAF World Indoors billed for March 17-20 in Portland Oregon, USA.

The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, declined to quash the six-count treason charge the federal government entered against the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu.

The Federal Government will take steps to address the ease of doing business in Nigeria as well as support small and medium enterprises, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Okechukwu Enelamah, stated this at the Economist Summit, adding that the challenge before the country was how to be competitive.