Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has described Senator David Mark as the centre of unity between the North and southern part of Nigeria.

GOVERNOR Darius Ishaku of Taraba State has suspended seven district heads for allocating lands belonging to Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, to unidentified persons within their domains.

WATER shortage has hit eight communities in Yakkur Local Government Area of Cross River State.

ELEVEN days after the violent clash between two rival cult groups, which allegedly claimed 23 lives at Omoku in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area, ONELGA, Rivers State, the once- bubbling community is now a ghost town.

THE agreement between Saudi Arabia and Russia as well as other countries to freeze production will have “little impact on the oil market as proposed, while there remains high uncertainty that it even materialises,” Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated has said.

ABUJA — SPEAKER of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, yesterday told the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, UNCHR, that the government would not allow the over two million Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, to go to their various homes as the atmosphere was not conducive for them to live.

Stakeholders in the automotive industry have urged government to ensure it supports local auto assemblers by way of patronising their products and services, just as Senator Ben Murray-Bruce called for total support for made in Nigeria automobiles.

ABEOKUTA—The Alake and paramount ruler of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo has urged the Federal Government to tackle the dwindling economy through a boost to the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises, SMEs.

Lagos—The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, yesterday called on the Federal Government to impose tougher penalties against petroleum pipelines vandals.

VICTIMS of the recent separate fire inferno at Otong Iwuochang, a shanty- fishing settlement and Iwuokpom, both in Ibeno Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State have cried out to the relevant government agencies to come to their rescue.

Towards contributing to the economic growth, social and gender equity and democratic governance in the country, the Federal government has been urged to declare maternal, neonatal and under-5s deaths a national priority emergency and to urgently design an action plan to address the maladies.

NIGER Delta Avengers, the militant group which claimed responsibility for blowing up the Forcados Terminal Pipeline in Delta State, recently, has served notice of attacks on more oil installations in the region until the Federal Government addresses its grievances.

Ubulu-Uku Kingdom in Delta State which has been mourning the murder of its former king, HRM Edward Ofulue III, by suspected Fulani herdsmen, has erupted into jubilation following the installation of his 15-year-old son as the new king of the kingdom.

Nigeria earned about N3.549 trillion from the oil and gas sector in eleven months, between January and November 2015, according to data obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.

LAGOS— As prices of equities continue to plummet on account of the recent lull in the stock market, the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), yesterday, said it was not considering another bailout for stockbrokers in line with recent calls by the stockbroking community.