Ogun State government yesterday cleared the air on the reason it sacked the State Chairmen of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, Akeem Ambali and Dare Ilekoya respectively and fourteen others.

A Lagos-based lawyer and activist, Chief Malcom Omirhobo, yesterday, asked a Federal High Court Lagos, to declare as unlawful, rescheduling of public holidays.

CONTROVERSY is trailing the discovery of the dead body of 19-year-old Joshua Bello, a secondary school leaver, in a pool in a private residential house at Adeniyi Jones area of Lagos.

The Campaign for Democracy, CD, has urged all the judges who were arrested for alleged corrupt practices to step aside pending the outcome of investigations.

Former presidential candidate of Citizens Popular Party, CPP, Chief Maxi Okwu, has said that the “change promised Nigerians by the All Progressives Congress, APC, had been aborted”, and called for political realignment that would ensure victory for a truly progressive party in 2019.

DR Eruani Azibapu, a Nigerian businessman signed into existence Azikel Refinery with Ventech Engineering LLC in Houston Texas. Dr Eruani, who is the group president of Azikel Group, signed on behalf of Azikel Petroleum Nig Ltd, alongside with Director of Investment and strategy, Mr Richard Howarth, the Executive Director Operations, Mr Presley Asemota, the contract for the manufacturing and construction of a 12,000 BPSD Hydro-skyming Refinery with the world global leaders of Modular refinery construction/manufacturing, Ventech Engineering LLC in the United State of America.

But for the timely intervention of the Speaker of Enugu State House of Assembly, Edward Uboshi, a clash between policemen and youths of Umuchigbo, Iji-Nike community in Enugu East Local Government would have turned bloody.

A widow, Mrs Elizabeth Igbokwe, is crying foul over the sudden withdrawal of her case in court against one Eric Nnamdi by the police in Enugu State.

THE Chairman of Gubio Local Government Area, Borno State, Zanna Gubio, and the Acting Commander of 5 Brigade of Operation Lafiya Dole, Colonel Dangana, have confirmed that eight suicide bombers, who attempted to invade Gubio, headquarters of the local government were killed by troops yesterday.

Leading telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, has pledged its full support to the “Buy-Nigeria-to-grow-Nigeria” mantra spear-headed by the federal government through the unveiling of its package to support the growth of small and medium enterprises, young entrepreneurs and other organizations in Nigeria with the launch of ‘Nigeria with Airtel Business’, a bouquet of bespoke services designed for global, large and medium organizations, both in the public and private sectors.

The Senate has said that the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) has lived up to its mandate by saving the country a whopping sum of N188.2billion in six years, which would have left the country as capital flight.

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has revealed plans to request the deployment of female policemen, operatives of Department of State Services, DSS, National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, and National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, as undercover detectives to all internally displaced persons, IDP, camps in the state.

We are at a loss in NYSC as there is no money for us to mobilise thousands of prospective corps members in the Batch A Stream 2 to camp this Friday; this is in spite of efforts made by us to get things done in that direction several weeks ago

Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Johannesburg, South Africa, Ekos Akpobabayen, has called on the Federal Government to be quick in restoring hope to Nigerians, saying that time was running out for the All Progressives Congress, APC-led government.

As part of efforts to rescue the country from recession, the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, NIPSS, has held a think-tank conference for participants to brainstorm on ways of repositioning the economy and making it viable.