WARRI—THE Ijaw People’s Development Initiative, IPDI, Warri, Delta Sate, and the Oroupaowei of Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Chief Bobo Wellington, have applauded the state government’s swift mediation, which stemmed the brewing crisis between Urhobo and Ijaw ethnic nationalities in the state.

PORT HARCOURT— GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike has again, reiterated alleged plan by the Rivers State Police Command to rig the coming rerun elections, threatening to release a video of how the Police allegedly intend to rig the election.

FMDQ OTC Securities Exchange has launched the Debt Capital Market Development, DCMD, Project to facilitate effective implementation of the recommendations reached at the all-stakeholders Debt Capital Market Workshop last year.

SAPELE — THE Cathedral Church of Saint Luke, Anglican Diocese, Sapele, Delta State, has been dismembered by a crisis between worshippers and the presiding Bishop, Rt. Rev B. A. Erifeta, JP.

CALABAR—SOME residents of Nyahasang, a suburb of Calabar, Cross River State, have relocated from their houses, after a rampaging ravine, which carved the community into three sections, swept away their homes.

ABUJA—THE Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC, and the police have embarked on investigation of alleged corrupt practices by the management of the University of Abuja.

BILLE—THE people of Bille Kingdom, comprising riverine oil-bearing communities in Degema Local Government Area, Rivers State, have screamed at the State Government over the devastation caused to their homelands by flood and erosion, warning that the territory was on the verge of annihilation.

The President of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Rev. Samson Ayokunle, has described the killings in Southern Kaduna as “religious cleansing.”

The country may be plunged into another round of excruciating fuel scarcity in the next couple of weeks, as oil marketers disclosed that they are running out of patience over the Federal Government’s refusal to pay its $1.7 billion debt owed oil marketers since May 2015.

ABUJA—A Senior Legislative Aide with the National Assembly, Abubakar Sani Doki, yesterday, slumped and died in the National Assembly premises when he was being taken out for medical attention, having been turned back by the Assembly Clinic, where it was said Doki’s case was beyond available facilities.

Facts have emerged that many indigenous companies in the oil and gas sector are not contributing to the Nigerian Content Fund, NCF, meant to address financial and liquidity challenges of Nigerian companies operating within the nation’s oil and gas industry as enshrined in the Nigerian Content Development Fund law.

A human rights lawyer, Chief Morah Ewunoh, has said the appointment of Justice Walter Onnoghen as acting, and not substantive, Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, will negatively affect the government and drastically erode public confidence in the judiciary.

LOKOJA—Many were feared killed, while houses were burnt in Bassa-Komo, Bassa Local Government Area of Kogi State yesterday, following a fracas between the Ebira and the native Bassa people.

ABUJA—Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, said yesterday that the Federal Government has developed a pattern of not being proactive on addressing issues affecting the university system unless some industrial action was taken by the union.

Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola has said that use of effective communication was vital in resolving major crisis confronting the power sector of the economy. Fashola, spoke on the backdrop of difficulties encountered by contractors and officials of the ministry in the course of construction of the recently inaugurated 330KV switching station in Essien Udim in Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.