ABUJA — Barely a month after a violent clash between soldiers in the convoy of the Chief of Army Staff, Major-General T. Y. Buratai, and members of the Shiite Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, the Federal Government has opted to probe the incident, which has heightened tension in the religious circles.

Japan based electronics giant, Panasonic has established an assembly plant in Lagos to complement its manufacturing plant in India. In a statement, Shinichi Wakita, Managing Director of Panasonic, Middle East and Africa, said the company is extending the manufacturing of its air-conditioners and TV sets to the shores of Nigeria.

Lagos—WIFE of the Vice President, Mrs. Dolapo Osinbajo and former Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice S.M.A. Belgore, among other high profile invitees, have confirmed they would attend the premiere of Airtel Touching Lives Season Two billed to hold next Thursday, at the Congress Hall, Transcorp Hilton, Abuja.

Chairman of the Nigeria Shipowners Association, NISA, Capt. Niyi Labinjo, has said that the country is losing N80 billion daily to petroleum products smuggled into the country.

The lifeless body of a two-month old baby girl, with her neck twisted, was found in a carton at a refuse dump located near Salvation Army Primary School, Sabo, Ikorodu, Lagos, yesterday.

Abia State Commissioner of Police, Habila Joshak, has said that Corporal Patrick Kalu who allegedly killed a father of two children, Ikeokwu Onyemachi, in Aba, Abia State, is now undergoing orderly room trial.

Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal Thursday visited Hajiya Fatima Isa, popularly known as Dammu, the last Sokoto’s patient in hospital from the September 2015 hajj stampede in Saudi Arabia.

National Association of Ijaw Female Students NAIFS, has described the appointment of Mrs. Ibim Seminitari as acting Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, as a blessing to the Ijaws in particular and the Niger Delta as a whole.

SOUTHERN Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa State will again be on the spot light tomorrow as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC conducts the rescheduled supplementary governorship election in the area.

Nigeria U23 star Oghenekaro Etebo beat compatriot Azubuike Okechukwu to the CAF Most Promising Player for 2015, while Nigeria U17 star Victor Osimhen was CAF Youth Player of the Year.

The South-East based Coalition of Human Rights Organisations, SBCHROs, has called on the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, the umbrella body of lawyers in Nigeria and other rights groups in the country, to direct their members to boycott courts in Nigeria in protest over President Muhammadu Buhari’s disobedience to orders of courts.

Lagos—The Lagos State Government has terminated operations of the first BRT cooperative run by the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, from the Mile12 to CMS BRT corridor with immediate effect.

The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, granted bail to the former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Haliru Bello and his son, Abba, to the tune of N600 million.

AHEAD of the 2016 governorship election in Edo State, the Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state, Mr. Anslem Ojezua, has warned party members against misconstruing Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s seeming preference for Mr Godwin Obaseki as candidate of the party as an imposition.

THE Federal Government has said it will pay all ex-militants their monthly stipends directly, thus bypassing leaders who hitherto paid their boys after collecting bulk money from the Amnesty Office.