THE world is at war. In most parts, this year that marks the Centenary of the First World War, is witnessing horrendous conflicts. In that war, the main actors proclaimed, ‘no more wars!’ Twenty three years later, they were back in a ‘war to end all wars’.

THE Senate, yesterday, finally passed the North-East Development Commission Bill which empowers the Federal Government to set up a commission to rebuild the region, following its devastation by Boko Haram insurgents.

THE professor was urged to drop the electronic device so that the process would be manipulated without success. Our vaults were emptied to buy votes but those sent kept the money in their underground wells. Nigerians were used as collateral for more loans that were shared amongst them. A blue-blooded retired army officer was given our national ATM card. It has no withdrawal limit.

WARRI—THE Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, yesterday shut down two oil servicing firms in Warri, Delta State, over alleged tax default running into hundreds of millions of Naira.

PORT HARCOURT— TRADERS at Oyigbo Timber Market, Oyigbo Local Government Area, Rivers State, have decried the alleged delay by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to investigate allegations of embezzlement of N100 million against the immediate past executive of the market.

Policemen attached to Lion Building Division, Lagos, have smashed a syndicate that specialised in threatening members of the public to pay certain amounts or be kidnapped, with the arrest of Abiodun Joshua, a member of the syndicate.

PORT HARCOURT—MANAGEMENT of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, UPTH, has raised an alarm over mosquitoes’ invasion of the hospital, saying it is a scourge that needs urgent attention.

HISTORY was made, yesterday, in Benin Kingdom, as the 40th Oba in the Oranmiyan dynasty was crowned.

Doctors at Araba Medical Hospital in Abule-Egba area of Lagos are trying their best on a newly-wedded woman, who was allegedly stabbed many times by her landlord’s son for allowing a man, considered as an enemy of the landlord, into her apartment at Ishaga Street.

Concerned about the wellbeing of the Nigerian child, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Chevron Nigeria Limited in partnership with GlaxoSmithKline, GSK, have commenced a mass de-worming programme at Ikota Primary School, Ikota Lekki, Lagos state, among other primary schools in the state.

Uyo—Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly has frowned at the wrongful sack of workers in the state-owned Akwa Ibom State University, AKSU, demanding the backdating of their confirmation by one year from the date of appointment.

Top Nigerian celebrities including Toolz, Ali Nuhu, Waje, Yemi Alade, and Hon. Desmond Elliot have come together through the theme, Make Naija Stronger, under the umbrella of the renowned ONE campaign to urge the government to adhere to its commitment to the 2001 African Union Abuja Commitment as it prepares to finalise the 2017 budget.

Northern youths under the aegis of Arewa Youth Leaders Forum (AYLF) have urged Nigerians to rally support around the President Muhammadu Buhari administration and not join the cabals who are bent in destroying the country for selfish reasons.

Chairman, Delta State House of Assembly Committee on Public Accounts, Mr Anthony Elekeokwuri, has restated the commitment of the House to ensure that all agencies of government and tertiary institutions in the state follow due process in line with existing laws in revenue generation and expenditure of public funds.

THE crisis rocking the leadership of Assemblies of God Nigeria, Sapele District, Delta State, was resolved yesterday at a reconciliation meeting by members of the church.