Lagos—A police prosecutor, Corporal Cyriacus Osuji, yesterday, told an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, how two bankers, Akanni Kehinde and Mustapha Abdulwaheed, allegedly stole N16.5 million, property of their employer, First Bank Nigeria Ltd., Orile, Lagos branch.

Commercial activities in Enugu metropolis and beyond, yesterday, were grounded as petrol filling stations closed shops following enforcement measures by the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, of Federal Government’s approved pump price of N86.50 per litre of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, otherwise known as petrol.

HUNDREDS of ex- militants under the Federal Government’s phase II Amnesty Programme have accused officials of the Amnesty Office of allegedly selling training slots meant for ex-militants to influential Nigerians for N500, 000 per individual.

DEPUTY Governor of Edo State, Dr. Pius Odubu, has described as spurious, the figures presented by the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, alleging shortfall in the 2016 budgetary allocation to his office.

The Federal Government has been urged not to approve the appointment of the acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mrs. Ibim Seminatari as substantive chief executive officer of the commission.

The decision by Cross River State governor, Senator Ben Ayade, to open up the space for more participation in governance has been commended by various stakeholders in the state.

Justice Evoh Chukwu of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, fixed January 18 to hear a suit challenging the eligibility of the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate in Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Umana Okon Umana, to participate in the re-run governorship poll in the state.

THE annual all Nigerian Universities Classical Music contest tagged “Campus Classical,” the first ever campus classical music contest in Africa begins in May 2016.

Ahead of the imminent exit of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP administration in Kogi State, one of the pillars of the party was yesterday being wooed to exit the party for the All Progressives Congress, APC.

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, ordered the extradition of one Franca Asemota to the United Kingdom to face human trafficking charges.

The Editor-in-Chief, Lead Times Africa magazine, Dr. Samuel Ogar, has called for the introduction of Good Governance as a course in the university system.

Leader of Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Solomon Chukwu, has said that his group was partnering a faction of Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, for the actualization of an independent state of Biafra.

The Joint Finance Team of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC and its Joint Venture Partners, Chevron Nigeria Limited, were yesterday, named the winner of the Thomson Reuters/PFI Magazine ‘Africa and Middle East Oil Deal of the Year Award for 2015.’

Akure—FIVE days after the former Speaker of Ondo State House of Assembly, Mr. Victor Olabimtan, was abducted, his captors have reduced the ransom from N20 million to N5 million.

Phillips Consulting has introduced a learning device called Phillips Learning Bundle (PLB) aimed at empowering individual skills through a hassle free learning experience to improve their knowledge and competence.