ABUJA — Senators of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, were yesterday, locked in separate meetings to deliberate and fine-tune common positions ahead of debate on the country’s economic recession, expected this morning at plenary.

ABUJA— As Nigeria mulls strategies to lift the country out of recession, pioneer chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has warned that corruption must first be stamped out, if government must succeed in its bid to revitalise the ailing economy.

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, said the Federal Government was considering fast-tracking the solutions to engender a rebound in the country’s economic fortunes.

PORT HAR- COURT— Lawyer to former First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, Timipa Okponipere, Senior Partner of First Law Associates, has given the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, 14 days with effect from September 18, to defreeze her accounts and tender a public apology to her.

Twenty ex-militants undergoing Electrical Installation and Repair Works on Low and Medium Voltage training have graduated from Izisco Obos Institute of Maritime Studies and Technology, Warri, Delta State, with an advice to be productive and self sustaining.

APC candidate Mr. Godwin Obaseki said yesterday that it is immoral for the PDP to field a candidate for the governorship election after allegedly impoverishing the people for ten years.

Citizens Action for Good Governance and Transparency, CAGT, which made the call, said that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration at this critical time needs highly sound technocrats such as Mrs. Mayshak to clean the stable in the pensions system.

The Esama of Ukpedi Kingdom, Delta State, Olorogun Okiemute Okwagbe, has appealed to the state governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa to come to their aid over the dilapidated roads in Okwagbe community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of the state.

LAGOS—There is tension in Isheri area of Lagos State, where four residents of Lekki Gardens were, weekend, abducted by eight masked men in military camouflage, as some residents have deserted their homes for fear of possible invasion by the kidnappers.

LAGOS— The unfolding crisis in All Progressives Congress, APC, is set to deepen from today as factional crises that have bestirred the national and many state chapters are reignited in at least three states.

Nine Army personnel from the 65 Battalion, Bonny Camp, Victoria Island, Lagos, yesterday, visited the Igando General Hospital to see the man hit by a stray bullet from a soldier attached to Operation Awatse last Thursday in Ijegun area of Lagos.

ABUJA — Following the unprecedented hardship in the land, Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, has said this was not the best time to serve in government, noting that officials of the present administration were suffering in their exalted offices.

The Chief Magistrate’s Court, Ota, Ogun State, yesterday, adjourned till November 21 to hear the application filed by Mr. Joachim Iroko, the man charged to court for naming his dog Buhari, challenging the jurisdiction of the court to hear the case.

The Eid-el-kabir is usually associated with prayers, sacrifice and exchange of gifts mostly from the rich to the less privileged in the society. This has always been the case in Niger State in the past years. People usually look forward to the celebration on account of the raw meat, cooked food and assorted drinks which usually change hands from house to house.

A prominent member of Peoples Democratic Party, Deji Adeyanju has urged the Supreme Court to set things right as the court prepares to adjudge the logjam in the state.