President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, to investigate allegation of sexual abuse in Internally Displaced Camps, IDPs, across the country.

THE stock market opened the week on a downward note yesterday as investors lost N3 billion on account of losses sustained by most blue chip companies.

THE Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, yesterday, disclosed that the federal government will increase the penalty for gas flaring, while it intends to end the practice by 2020.

THE Elders’ Forum of the PDP in Ondo State said, yesterday, in Akure, that substituting the governorship candidate of the party, Eyitayo Jegede, SAN, was an injustice that can spark off political crisis in the state.

The Spokesperson to Biafra Independence Movement, BIM, and Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Mazi Chris Mocha has revealed that the former Head of State of the defunct Biafra, late Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu on October 29, 2007, handed over to BIM/MASSOB founder, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike as his successor in the agitation for the actualization of Biafra nation.

Following its inability to offset the N1.7 million debt owed Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC, the national secretariat of All Progressives Congress, APC, has been thrown into darkness.

The House of Representatives has threatened to issue a warrant of arrest on Customs Comptroller-General, Col. Hameed Ali, retd, if he failed to appear before its Public Accounts Committee, PAC, on November 8 to defend his agency.

The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, yesterday, said the concession of the country’s railway would attract $3 billion investment to the Nigeria.

Zamfara State government has urged the Federal Government to continue with the Rural Finance Institution Building Programme, RUFIN, for rural financial inclusion.

Ikwerre Youth Movement International, IYM, has described the bribery allegations against the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, by two judges as a reflection of efforts by mischief makers to destroy the reputation of the minister.