The Managing Director of Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, Engr Saleh Dunoma yesterday said the agency has created conducive and attractive business environment in most major airports in the country that will attract investors to do business at the airports.

WORKERS of the Niger Petroleum Development Company, NDPC, working at its flow and compressor stations in OML 30, Delta state, have threatened to shut down the company with zonal office in Benin City, Edo State, over alleged non-payment of salary from January till date.

A former speech writer to ex-governor Timipre Sylva, Mr. Jonah Okah has been arraigned before Magistrate Court 7 in Yenagoa, over an allege case of criminal defamation levied against Mr. Ritchie Etonye, the Bayelsa state Government House Accountant.

The Eighth Senate has repeatedly stated that its Legislative Agenda is anchored on three legs. They are economic revival, social development and youth employment. The choice of issues must have resulted from the current situation in the country.

A suspected kidnap kingpin believed to be responsible for series of abductions, including that of the Oniba of Iba kingdom, Oba Yishau Oseni, last month in Igando area of Lagos has been arrested by the Police in Lagos.

A renowned Pharmacist and Chief Executive Officer, CEO of Alben Healthcare Industies Limited, a subsidiary of PAL Pharmaceuticals, Kano, Chief Alexander Uzo Onyido has been elected as the new traditional ruler of Ogidi community in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra state.

If President Buhari loves Nigeria as much as he says, then he must release her. Too many barriers, too many regulations are holding Nigeria and her development prostrate. Restructure the states and make them viable. Let the Niger-Delta region do that it wants with its oil; let the regions that have gold, tin, nickel, coal, bauxite etc have control over what is on their soil and in their soil as long as they all pay the necessary taxes. Let the local economy along with education, infrastructure and security be the preserve of the respective regions. Just as it is done in the US.

You should ask him, what programme does he have? I have told you agriculture and it is the mainstay of Nigerian economy right from time immemorial. Oil is just a recent thing. If we develop agriculture, you will see how less concerned we will naturally become about oil. Part of the problem is that Buhari has to be fair to all ethnic groups in Nigeria and not to pay attention to only one. It is not only when you embezzle money that they say you are dishonest. Buhari could be honest but he is not a fair man.

Deltans across various walks of life yesterday paid tributes to late Chief Peter Omuvwie, who passed on last Wednesday night, at the age of 109 years.

THE convoy of the Lagos State governor, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode yesterday saved several motorists from being robbed by armed robbers, who struck at the popular Long Bridge on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

DESPERATE at tempt by seven governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Ondo State to form alliance to be able to defeat the preferred aspirant of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in today’s election has failed.

Antonio Conte has only been in charge of Chelsea for three Premier League games, but the Italian coach has done enough to earn a nomination for August’s Manager of the Month award.

It was for noble intentions and the need to placate the restive Niger Delta (ND) militants when former Nigeria’s President, Late Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua exercised his constitutional power by granting amnesty and unconditional pardon to all Niger Delta militants in June 2009. On acceptance, the militants were expected to renounce militancy and embrace the Federal Government of Nigeria’s (FGN) package for their rehabilitation.

So, the NPFL All Stars lost all their matches in the tour of LaLiga, down 1-2 to Valencia CF and 1-4 to Malaga CF, 1-2 to Athletico Madrid in the Carranza Cup tournament held in Cadiz.

Shuaibu Idris, studied Accountancy from Bayaro University, Kano; he also acquired a Masters Degree in Banking and Finance from the University of Wales. Having initially worked with Board of Internal Revenue, Kaduna state briefly and subsequently gathered over 10 years of banking experience in Lagos. Shuaibu also put over 10 years of meritorious service with Dangote Group, where he initially headed their Human Resources, Administration and Corporate Affairs, and later advanced to be Executive Director in charge of Sales and Marketing Flour before leaving the company in December 2010 as the Deputy Managing Director, Flour Mill Group.