Special Assistant to Delta State governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, on Political Affairs, Mr. Matthew Opuoru, has described the recent Supreme Court victory of the governor as vital to Deltans in the administration’s quest to divest the economy of the state through its SMART agenda.

ABA—Suspected hoodlums have set ablaze the country home of a chieftain of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Abia State, Mr. Chigozie Ubani, at Obete Umuoha Village, Obingwa council area.

ABUJA — THE Senate, yesterday, raised an alarm that some senators were now launching media campaign against its leadership to destabilise the President, Senator Bukola Saraki, urging Nigerians to ignore what it described as rantings of a few failed senators.

LAGOS—Banks planning to set up or already operating subsidiary units in any of Nigeria’s Free Trade Zones, FTZs, must now have a minimum capital base of $10 million, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, approved guideline for setting up a bank in a free trade zone in Nigeria has said.

THE S’East states chapters of the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress, TUC, yesterday, described the planned increment in electricity tariff by the National Electricity Regulation Commission, NERC as illegal, unfair and unjustifiable.

Minister of Communications, Barrister Abdur-Raheem Adebayo Shittu was a member of the Oyo State House of Assembly in the Second Republic (October 1979 to September 1983). He was the Oyo State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Home Affairs under the Dr. Omololu Olunloyo administration (October – December, 1983) and became the Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General of Oyo State in the Alhaji Rashidi Ladoja government in 2003. He was a member of the National Political Reforms Conference put together by the Chief Olusegun Obasanjo-led Federal Government in 2005.

A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja yesterday dismissed two applications seeking to stop the prosecution of the two engineers who constructed the collapsed six-storey building at the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, in Ikotun area of Lagos.

Nigerians have often wondered why, just when it seems our gallant military forces are about to snuff out the Boko Haram insurgents, they make daring resurgences.

Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, directed security agencies in the country to compel the attendance in court of ex-Niger Delta militant, Chief Government Ekpemupolo (Tompolo), charged with N13 billion theft by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

GOVERNORSHIP candidates of Labour Party, LP and All Progressives Congress, APC, in last year’s governorship election in Delta State, Chief Great Ogboru and Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, yesterday, tongue-lashed the state governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, for saying that they did not campaign for the election.

The no love lost relationship between outgoing governors and their deputies has been the hallmark of transitions at the state level in Nigeria. That is the tinge of the unfolding developments in Edo State.

Jaguar Land Rover is investing in a research project that will help future autonomous vehicles drive naturally like human drivers, rather than like robots. A fleet of Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles will be driven daily by employees of the London Borough of Greenwich, to establish how a range of different drivers react to real-world driving situations, including heavy traffic, busy junctions, road works and bad weather.

With the down turn of the economy, the auto sector is undoubtedly one of the worst hit, as low patronage has forced many companies in the sector, especially those who have invested heavily in the setting up of auto assembly plants, to sack staff and scale down some of their operations, reports XYZ Nigeria is not new in the business of auto assembling, as government’s interest in this area can be traced back to the 70s when the Federal Government collaborated with some auto companies abroad to establish assembly plants.

I AM still at loss as to why many delegates at the 2014 National Conference were shocked when Alhaji Barkindo Mustapha, the Lamido of Adamawa made these obvious and truthful confessions, though in anger, on the floor of that assembly. Maybe those who were scandalised by the remarks did not know of the truism that the ‘drunkén’ voice, what was hidden in his spirt that he would not have been said without intoxication.

By Monsuru Olowoopejo Lagos—Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State and his wife, Bolanle yesterday led a retinue of dignitaries to the home of the former military governor of Lagos state, Brig. General Mobolaji Johnson to console him over the death of his wife, Funmilayo. Mrs Johnson died last Saturday at the age of 76 after […]