WORRIED by the security situation in Southern Kaduna State, following frequent attacks by herdsmen on communities in the area resulting in death and destruction of property, the Senate yesterday, summoned the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, to appear before its relevant committees to explain plans to end the genocide.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has approved the appointment of retired Deputy Inspector General of Police, DIG, Israel Ajao, as Chairman, Board of Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Agency.

DECREE No. 1 of 1999Also in 1999, in order to give the service more bite and reposition it for greater efficiency, Abdulsalami ABUBAKAR (Gen./retd) in exercise of his powers as President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, by virtue of Instrument No. 1 of 1999 relating to the general duties of the SSS as set out in Section 2-(3) of the decree’s objectives, the SSS at this point, was mandated to carry out the following functions amongst others :

Head Coach of the Nigeria U20 girls, Peter Dedevbo is expected to make three key changes in the starting line -up of his team in Wednesday’s World Cup clash with Canada in Port Moresby.

The Minister of Communications Barr. Adebayo Shittu , and his counter part, for Science & Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu are expected to speak at the national summit on Information Management hosted by the Institute of Information Management (IIM) holding soon.

Telecommunications giant, MTN Nigeria has thrown its weight behind a new cashless initiative, mCASH, launched recently by the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc, NIBSS.

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State yesterday said that plans have been concluded to commission 1,125 hectares of land in the state for cattle business.The governor made this known to newsmen in Owerri.

IN response to his earlier request, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, has delivered pairs of made-in-Aba shoes to former President Olusegun Obasanjo as part of the governor’s campaign to market goods produced in Aba.

The administration of former president Olusegun Obasanjo initiated the local content policy for Nigeria in 2006. The main purpose was to increase local capacity and participation in the petroleum industry, because the government needed to achieve a substantial portion of the activities in the oil and gas sector, which was the main stay of Nigerian economy.

YENAGOA—FRESH facts emerged, yesterday, on the circumstances that led to the shooting to death a Police Sergeant, Mr. Salvation Adaka, attached to the Agudama-Epetiama Division of Bayelsa State Police Command by his colleagues over the sharing of a N20,000 largesse, during a patrol duty at Obunagha community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state.