The All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, yesterday, called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to urgently make a categorical statement on the activities of some political parties conducting fresh primaries to nominate candidates for the Anambra Central Senatorial district rerun poll.

Worried by the devastating consequences of natural disasters and their impacts on lives, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, IFRC, (a member of the UN- Habitat-coordinated Global Network on Sustainable Housing) and the Building Research Establishment, BRE have developed a tool that would deliver sustainable guidance and provide a method of assessing such disasters whenever they occur.

Minister of State for Petroleum Resource, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, yesterday warned indigenes of Tarkwa Bay, host to the Atlas Cove Jetty, Nigeria’s biggest petroleum products reception, that the community was at risk of possible acquisition by the Federal Government, if they continued to shield pipeline vandals and oil thieves.

LAGOS—Policemen attached to Denton Police Division, yesterday, engaged four suspected members of a notorious robbery gang that has been terrorising residents of Ebute-Meta in a gun battle with the leader of the gang, identified as Sunday Terror, arrested.

National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has said the APC government had no regrets digging deep into the activities of the immediate past government.

FOLLOWING more than a decade of aggressive growth, global coal demand has stalled, the International Energy Agency, IEA, said in its Annual Coal Market Report, released last week. The report sharply lowered its five-year global coal demand growth forecast in reflection of economic restructuring in China, which represents half of global coal consumption

Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed January 29 to determine whether or not the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, should be released on bail pending his trial.

IJAW elders in Delta State, yesterday, said it was impracticable for them to hand over the former General Officer Commanding, GOC, of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, to security agencies because they neither have the power to do so nor know his (Tompolo) whereabouts currently.

LAGOS — The Naira depreciated against the dollar by N4 in the parallel market, yesterday, in response to intense scarcity of dollar in the market.

POWERGAS Africa Ltd., is set to change the fortunes of manufacturing firms throughout sub-Saharan Africa, by supplying natural gas as a source of power to areas not connected by pipelines.